Back to the Books

After seeing some of my friends studying for their various classes, I had this weird craving to study.  Don't get me wrong, working has its gratifications (and pay!), but there is just something about the raw pursuit of knowledge, for knowledge's sake, that seems so satisfying.  

What better way to relive those days, than to go back to how I did it back then.

The books I'll be looking at in the weeks to come are:

Design Patterns (link)

I bought this book to help me improve my code quality by helping me to identify common programming designs and applying them into my work.  By building upon well recognized design patterns, my hope is that my code will be more readible to future users, and that I can have a better understanding on why these constructs work as such, and to be able to explain my code to others.

Clean Code (link)

Clean Code was a book that was recommended to me by the iOS Team over at Experian.  It instills the principle of writing intuitive code that is well organized and verbose enough to readers to understand what the intent of your code is. My goal here is to maintain a good code style that will allow for easier readability.

Great Expectations (link)


This is a classic book that I'm going to use in the down-time I need to relax.  Great Expectations is a book about personal growth and development, and how to deal with the coming of expectations.  I think this will be a good read, as I learn and grow in this time.