Vacation Reading

[bjarvis]

Tomorrow morning, I'm heading to the trailer for a ten day vacation. I'm sure I'll be spending some time working on square dance choreo but I'm planning to spend the bulk of my time catching up on some professional development, technical skills and pleasure reading.

Here's a quick list of some of the eBooks I'm taking to read:

• The Prehistoric Earth
  
• A World Undone: The Story of the Great War
  
• City of Fortune: How Venice Won & Lost a Naval Empire
  
• Deep Space Craft: An Overview of Interplanetary Craft
  
• False Economy: A Surprising Economic History
  
• History of Scotland
  
• Rabies
  
• Thames: The Biography
  
• The Ellipse: A Historical & Mathematical Journey
  
• 100 Things Every Designer Needs to Know About People
  
• Elements of Influence
  
• Effective Selling for the Small Business Owner
  
• Javascript: The Definitive Guide
  
• Mobile IPv6
  
• IPv6 Essentials
  
• IPv6 Security
  
• Hadoop Installation
  
• Programming Amazon EC2
  
• Programming Android
  
• The Ruby Programming Language
  
• Fundamentals of Python
  
• 4G LTE for Mobile Broadband

I have a few extras if time allows but this seems a pretty good list.

Comments

[bjarvis.livejournal.com]

I'm aiming for familiarization with these languages rather than programming expertise: like you, I learn more by doing than by just reading. That said, after the first 25-30 programming languages, they all start to look the same and I learn new ones by how they differ from ones I already know rather than as standalone languages in their own right. :-)