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ok, looking at programming language pragmatics it seems like you want fairly serious (university level) theory. so i don't understand why people are talking ab

ok, looking at programming language pragmatics it seems like you want fairly serious (university level) theory. so i don't understand why people are talking about regexps - that should be covered in a subsection (regular grammars) of one chapter of that book. anyway, for databases i would suggest date's "sql and relational theory" - it shows how sql is related to a more elegant, cleaner, underlying theoretical approach and will get you to think in more declarative terms. for general programming, sicp is worth reading if you haven't read it already. for algorithms, either (or both - they are very different) cormen et al (lots of tedious detail - you need to choose which bits to read) or the algorithm design manual http://www.algorist.com/ http://www.algorist.com/ you don't ask about numerical work, but for anyone interested, gershenfeld's "nature of mathematical modelling" is concise, broad, and has some very deep insights (the few pages on wavelets are the best i have read anywhere). for security, scheneier's applied crypto is a pretty good intro (again, skip some bits, and remember it's old). and anderson's "security engineering" is the other classic (which i should read...). for ai (again, you didn't ask) both norvig's books are good (the more modern one is aimed at modern statistical approaches that work, but the older one has a lot of good basic programming and lisp).

aGHz 15y ago
Speaking of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP), there's a good UC Berkeley course based on it up at http://www.academicearth.org/courses/the-structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs http://www.academicearth.org/courses/the-structure-and-inter.... It's very long, but if lectures are more your learning style, you might find this very useful.
kls 15y ago
so i don't understand why people are talking about regexps The author of the post made mention of the knowledge applying to web development and then said the following towards the end of the post: the difference would be in a higher focus on practical application Regular Expressions is kind of the tl;dr on the topic. They are practical to web development but require a deeper understanding of a particular area of computing. I took his post to say, I want to go deep, I want it to be applicable to real world web development, and I want it to be targeted topics. I think regular expressions fit that bill. Sure there are others, and maybe some overlap but I personally mentioned regular expressions because it has a high degree of misunderstanding, but also a high degree of usefulness in web development.

aGHz 15y ago

Speaking of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP), there's a good UC Berkeley course based on it up at http://www.academicearth.org/courses/the-structure-and-interpretation-of-computer-programs http://www.academicearth.org/courses/the-structure-and-inter.... It's very long, but if lectures are more your learning style, you might find this very useful.

kls 15y ago

so i don't understand why people are talking about regexps The author of the post made mention of the knowledge applying to web development and then said the following towards the end of the post: the difference would be in a higher focus on practical application Regular Expressions is kind of the tl;dr on the topic. They are practical to web development but require a deeper understanding of a particular area of computing. I took his post to say, I want to go deep, I want it to be applicable to real world web development, and I want it to be targeted topics. I think regular expressions fit that bill. Sure there are others, and maybe some overlap but I personally mentioned regular expressions because it has a high degree of misunderstanding, but also a high degree of usefulness in web development.