# Resources

This site contains a list of resources I found helpful. I am not an expert in all of these topics, but all the resources listed here impacted me. I read some of the books quite a long time ago, so there might be newer editions out there already, and I might need to refresh some of the knowledge.

The list may not be exhaustive, but I will be adding more in the future. I firmly believe that educating yourself further is one of the most important things to advance. The lists are in random order and reshuffled every time (via *sort -R*) when updates are made.

You won't find any links on this site because, over time, the links will break. Please use your favorite search engine when you are interested in one of the resources...

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## Technical books

* C++ Programming Language; Bjarne Stroustrup; (I've to admit that was a long time ago I've read this book)
* Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good; Fred Herbert; No Starch Press
* Pro Git; Scott Chacon, Ben Straub; Apress
* Systemprogrammierung in Go; Frank Müller; dpunkt
* DNS and BIND; Cricket Liu; O'Reilly
* Concurrency in Go; Katherine Cox-Buday; O'Reilly
* Modern Perl; Chromatic ; Onyx Neon Press
* Java ist auch eine Insel; Christian Ullenboom; 
* Think Raku (aka Think Perl 6); Laurent Rosenfeld, Allen B. Downey; O'Reilly
* Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide; Not an actual book, but could be
* Site Reliability Engineering; How Google runs production systems; O'Reilly
* Systems Performance Tuning; Gian-Paolo D. Musumeci and others...; O'Reilly
* The Practise of System and Network Administration; Thomas A. Limoncelli, Christina J. Hogan, Strata R. Chalup; Addison-Wesley Professional
* Clusterbau mit Linux-HA; Michael Schwartzkopff; O'Reilly
* Object-Oriented Programming with ANSI-C; Axel-Tobias Schreiner
* Programming Perl aka "The Camel Book"; Tom Christiansen, brian d foy, Larry Wall & Jon Orwant; O'Reilly
* Higher Order Perl; Mark Dominus; Morgan Kaufmann
* The Docker Book; James Turnbull; Kindle
* Developing Games in Java; David Brackeen and others...; New Riders
* Effective awk programming; Arnold Robbins; O'Reilly
* Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!; Miran Lipovaca; No Starch Press
* Funktionale Programmierung; Peter Pepper; Springer
* Pro Puppet; James Turnbull, Jeffrey McCune; Apress
* The Go Programming Language; Alan A. A. Donovan; Addison-Wesley Professional
* 21st Century C: C Tips from the New School; Ben Klemens; O'Reilly
* Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms; Andrew S. Tanenbaum; Pearson

## Technical bibles

I didn't read them from the beginning to the end, but I am using them to look up things.

* The Linux Programming Interface; Michael Kerrisk; No Starch Press
* Understanding the Linux Kernel; Daniel P. Bovet, Marco Cesati; O'Reilly
* Algorithms; Robert Sedgewick, Kevin Wayne; Addison Wesley

## Self-development and soft-skills books

* Atomic Habits; James Clear; Random House Business
* The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide; John Sonmez; Unabridged Audiobook
* Eat That Frog!; Brian Tracy; Hodder Paperbacks
* Time Management for System Administrators; Thomas A. Limoncelli; O'Reilly
* Digital Minimalism; Cal Newport; Portofolio Penguin
* Stop starting, start finishing; Arne Roock; Lean-Kanban University
* Ultralearning; Scott Young; Thorsons
* The Joy of Missing Out; Christina Crook; New Society Publishers
* Soft Skills; John Sommez; Manning Publications
* So Good They Can't Ignore You; Cal Newport; Business Plus
* The Bullet Journal Method; Ryder Carroll; Fourth Estate
* Psycho-Cybernetics; Maxwell Maltz; Perigee Books
* Who Moved My Cheese?; Dr. Spencer Johnson; Vermilion
* The Off Switch; Mark Cropley; Virgin Books
* The Daily Stoic; Ryan Holiday, Stephen Hanselman; Profile Books
* Deep Work; Cal Newport; Piatkus
* The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People; Stephen R. Covey; Simon & Schuster UK
* The Power of Now; Eckhard Tolle; Yellow Kite

## Technical video lectures and courses

Some of these were in-person with exams; others were online learning lectures only.

* Linux Security and Isolation APIs Training; Michael Kerrisk; 3 day on-site training
* MySQL Deep Dive Workshop; 2 day on-site training
* Protocol buffers; O'Reilly Online
* Algorithms Video Lectures; Robert Sedgewick; O'Reilly Online
* Red Hat Certified System Administrator; Course + certification (Although I had the option I decided not to take the next course as it is more effective to self learn what I need)
* Scripting Vim; Damian Conway; O'Reilly Online
* The Ultimate Kubernetes Bootcamp; School of Devops; O'Reilly Online
* Ultimate Go Programming; Bill Kennedy; O'Reilly Online
* Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs; Harold Abelson and more...; 
* F5 Loadbalancers Training; 2-day on-site training; F5, Inc. 
* Apache Tomcat Best Practises; 3-day on-site training
* Functional programming lecture; Remote University of Hagen

## Fiction and more books

Many fiction and non-fiction books I read are not listed here. This site primarily includes resources that impacted me regarding my work and not on my personal life. Do you recommend a good Science Fiction Novel? E-Mail me; I can also provide my recommendations! :-)

## Formal education

I have met many self-taught IT professionals I highly respect. In my own opinion, a formal degree does not automatically qualify a person for a particular job. It is more about how you educate yourself further *after* formal education. The pragmatic way of thinking and getting things done do not require a college or university degree.

However, I still believe a degree in Computer Science helps to understand all the theories involved that you would have never learned about otherwise. Isn't it cool to understand how compilers work under the hood (automata theory) even if you are not required to hack the compiler in your current position? You could apply the same theory for other things too. This was just *one* example.

* One year Student exchange program in OH, USA
* German School Majors (Abitur), focus areas: German and Mathematics
* Half-year internship as a C/C++ programmer in Sofia, Bulgaria
* Graduated from University as Diplom-Inform. (FH) at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences, Germany

My diploma thesis, "Object-oriented development of a GUI based tool for event-based simulation of distributed systems," can be found at:

=> https://github.com/snonux/vs-sim

I was one of the last students handed out an "old fashioned" German Diploma degree before the University switched to the international Bachelor and Master versions. To give you an idea: The "Diplom-Inform. (FH)" means translated "Diploma in Informatics from a University of Applied Sciences (FH: Fachhochschule)". Going after the international student credit score, it settles between a Bachelor of Computer Science and a Master of Computer Science degree. 

Colleges and Universities are costly in many countries. Come to Germany, the first college degree is for free (if you finish within a certain deadline!)

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