I haven’t been much of a reader lately, but being aware of the fact that reading good stuff builds your cache right and opens your mind towards different horizons, I tend to keep myself engaged with light reads, may it be the regular/newspaper. Apart from the acquired knowledge, the views penned down by the authors help to structure my foundation.
Among the vast majority of my reads, most of them include:
- Documentation
- Technical articles and blog posts
- Novels (any genre, but preferably fictional)
- Comics (traditional such as the Archies’ series as well as digital ones like Webtoons)
I occasionally go through:
- Encyclopedias
- Computer Science (and related domains) textbooks
- Research papers (read several so far, but only when I require to for presentations, or if I stumble upon an interesting abstract)
- Manga (a Japanese version of comics, usually read out of curiosity to know what’s coming next in an unreleased sequel to an anime!)
Recommendations:
- Blogs
- CSS: Josh W. Comeau
- Software Testing: Alex Groce
- Machine Learning and R: Toby D. Hocking
- And Then There Were None, By Agatha Christie - A mystery-themed bestseller with ten strangers marked for sequential death following the event of them being stranded on an island by the invitations of an unknown millionaire.
- Illegal, By Eoin Colfer - A graphic novel narrating a boy’s epic journey to Europe.
- Pokemon Adventures - The best pokemon comics/manga out there, with an intriguing storyline filled with humour, suspense, and beautifully sketched characters over many episodes. I’ve purchased paperbacks until volume 21 (mostly B/W) and read the rest of the adventures online. Worth it!
- The Time Machine, By H.G. Wells - A fictional classic.
- If you want something unique, you might want to check out these IG accounts:
- katswenski - comics connected with one or more appropriate .gif representations.
- camera_duels - for some lengthy jargon populated captions served with (much) salt and jughead-style humour.
- katswenski - comics connected with one or more appropriate .gif representations.
- For the CS Bookworm: (old recommends)
- Elementary Number Theory, by David M. Burton - A perfect read for beginners to understand number theory and its constituents such as the Euclidean algorithm. Went through the book to understand the basic mathematical concepts of the RSA algorithm but it turned out to be a helpful book for reference to some crucial topics used in competitive programming, especially for tackling Project Euler problems. (going from as small as GCD and Euler’s totient to CRT, diophantine equations, and much more!)
- Design and Analysis of Algorithms, by Thomas H.Cormen - Complementary book to dive into some interesting methods of dealing with problems with data structures. Might introspect or shape your ideals since it revolves around the way humans think (or put simply, the equivalent word to which would be ‘algorithms’). Highly not recommended for someone who is looking for direct algorithmic code. (most of the stuff is pseudocode and you need to spend quite a bit of time to thoroughly comprehend everything!)
- Elementary Number Theory, by David M. Burton - A perfect read for beginners to understand number theory and its constituents such as the Euclidean algorithm. Went through the book to understand the basic mathematical concepts of the RSA algorithm but it turned out to be a helpful book for reference to some crucial topics used in competitive programming, especially for tackling Project Euler problems. (going from as small as GCD and Euler’s totient to CRT, diophantine equations, and much more!)