From: Wilson Bilkovich <wilsonb@...>
Date: 2007-09-27T06:40:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Confession: I never learned CS

On 9/26/07, Jay Levitt <jay+news@jay.fm> wrote:
> Yet I know I have much to learn, because I approach too many problems with
> an iterative, loop-based approach, when Ruby has such nice tools for
> parsing and list-processing and analysis.
>
> So - any recommended reading?  What books will help me change the way I
> think about data?
>

Big hunks of it are fundamentally unlike Ruby, but that's probably a
good thing for your brain.
This book is a work of genius that I think every 'serious' programmer
should own: http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html
Sorry if that sounds too over-the-top. :)