Recommended Reading

[Limbic~Region]

All,
My reply was getting too long so I decided to turn this into a meditation. What links have helped inspire you, teach you, and made you a better programmer? Please try to categorize the links as best you can (I need to do some housekeeping myself).

Ideas to make you think (offsite)

• Unusual Numbers
• Project Euler
• String Factoring
• Cut the knot
• Enchanted Mind
• Sphere Online Judge (challenging problems)

Links on algorithms (offsite)

• List_of_algorithms
• Rounding Algorithms link 1
• Rounding Algorithms link 2
• The Algorithmist
• Algorithms for dealing with large amounts of data
• Dictionary of Algorithms and Data Structures

Recommended Reading (offsite)

• Which non-Perl books made you a better (?:Perl )?Programmer? (on PM)
• Use Perl Journals
• Higher Order Perl by Dominus
• Exploring Programming Language Architecture in Perl by billh
• Joel's Recommendations
• The Hundred Year Langauge by Paul Graham
• A Portrait of J. Random Hacker
• David Wheeler's musings on Perl
• Getting past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency by Tom DeMarco
• Teach Yourself Programming in 10 Years by Peter Norvig
• How To Design Programs
• Introduction to the Theory of Numbers
• Recommended reading for Open Source programmers by BigAl
• Joel on Software
• The Register recommended reading
• Japhy's Perl page
• Abigail's Perl Page
• MJD Perl page by Dominus
• Hierarchical SQL by Joel Celko
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• Statistics
• Scalable Computer Programming Languages by Mike Vanier
• PerlGP, The Open Source Perl Genetic Programming System
• Columns by merlyn
• Extending Regular Expression Syntax by diotalevi
• Computer Science - Traits
• Avoid Table Scans (MySQL)
• CGI Course by Ovid
• Perl 6 and Set Theory by luqui

Homenodes with links to checkout (Homenode Surfing)

• Most popular links on homenodes
• blokhead
• eyepopslikeamosquito
• cacharbe
• YuckFoo
• halley
• pboin
• LanceDeeply
• tilly
• Louis_Wu
• Util
• idnopheq
• atcroft
• larsen
• Aristotle
• jynx
• gmax
• xenchu
• BooK
• cjf
• mirod
• crouchingpenguin
• pfaut
• brianarn
• Masem
• Albannach
• data64
• sacked
• BazB
• FoxtrotUniform
• /dev/null
• ignatz
• Rhys
• broquaint
• MrCromeDome
• busunsl
• converter
• blm
• penguinfuz
• arhuman
• greenFox
• PhilHibbs
• Dominus
• shotgunefx
• jordanh
• Rich36
• Brovnik
• sauoq
• pjsmith
• adrianh
• newrisedesigns
• dominix
• cmilfo
• robin
• Zoogie
• jkahn
• indapa
• ViceRaid
• zejames
• myocom
• periapt
• VSarkiss
• mp
• z0d
• dsb
• liz
• ryddler
• TVSET
• Dru
• tfrayner
• tomhukins
• scottj
• ariels
• danger
• neophyte
• projekt21
• perlfan
• davorg
• P0w3rK!d
• buckaduck
• btrott
• gryphon
• srawls
• petdance
• redsquirrel
• choocroot
• kryberg
• revdiablo
• deliria
• dda
• cog
• meredith
• Elias
• Roy Johnson
• fruiture
• tstock
• markjugg
• sparkyichi
• pope
• PetaMem
• Joost
• elusion
• gaal
• Fastolfe

Nodes others wrote (Selected Best Nodes):

• Re: Confused.... question on code scalability (reusing functions, etc) by Elian
• Greatest programming mistakes and what to learn from by Mr. Lee
• What you refuse to see, is your worst trap by tilly
• How to generate restricted partitions of an integer by borisz
• Adventures in optimization (or: the good and bad side of being truly bored) by revdiablo
• nested combinations: algorithm advice? by revdiablo
• Parens permutations by artist
• Iterating over combinations by blokhead
• Bit operations for beginners by Cine
• Round robin tournament problem by CiceroLove
• Near-free function currying in Perl by tmoertel
• Efficiently sorting array by non-alpha strings by knowmad
• Puzzle: The Ham Cheese Sandwich cut. by Perl Mouse
• Happy 2006 by Perl Mouse
• "Rites of Passage" wheel reinventing by dws
• (OT) Black- vs. white-box testing by dragonchild
• amount permutations by gr0k
• What do you know, and how do you know that you know it? by tilly
• Finding all sets of chars by Anonymous Monk
• a more efficient lexicographical sort? by Anonymous Monk
• pissed off about functional programming by mstone
• unordered sets of N elements by japhy
• OO - best way to have protected methods by gargle
• Generate unique initials from a list of names by EdwardG
• Finding all divisors of an integer by chiburashka
• Finding longest palindrome from a string by BUU
• Common Regex Gotchas by chromatic
• The fine art of database programming by gmax
• On bad habits by g0n
• How many triangles does your perl script "see"? by Skeeve
• Article: Using Perl in PostgreSQL by jfroebe
• Ultra compact set searching by jimt
• Generator of integer partitionts of n by chiburashka
• possible combinations in sequence by ruzam
• Play and win the word morph game with the help of Perl :) by Ieronim
• Challenge: "Insanity" Cube Puzzle by liverpole
• Puzzle: What is the largest integer whose digits are all different (and do not include 0) that is divisible by each of its individual digits? by tphyahoo
• a close prime number by Anonymous Monk
• counting overlapping patterns by Anonymous Monk
• Stubborn as a Saint by Ovid
• Where and how to start learning Perl by woolfy
• challenging the dictionary by Discipulus
• optimizing the miller-rabin algorithm by punklrokk
• Don't Use Regular Expressions To Parse IP Addresses! by ybiC
• Longest repeated string... by Yzzyx
• File Locking Tricks and Traps by Dominus
• Return a list or an iterator by nferraz
• Weighted random numbers generator by spurperl & Efficiently selecting a random, weighted element by jimt
• Death to Dot Star! by Ovid
• Pure Perl tail call optimization by pdcawley
• Alpha base-26 to base-10... by eduardo
• Egyptian fractions by jimt
• Automagic subroutines by rje
• Help with the concept of closures. by DigitalKitty
• recursive complex structure or something like that? by Isanchez
• OT: Finding Factor Closest To Square Root by QM
• How to maximise the content of my data CD by amaguk
• College degrees, knowledge gained and reputations enhanced by BUU
• Bad Idea? Questions of performance issues, file locking, and GPG by hmbscully
• More efficient return of values from sub by bradcathey
• aborting File::Find::find by marvell
• Spiraling integers by Elijah
• Comparing likeness of two strings by RiotTown
• RFC: Implicit Parallelization Pragma by hardburn
• Lazy DBI Connection Handles by Zaxo
• algorithm for 'best subsets' by Halley
• Applying regexes to streams: Perl enhancement idea by tye
• Regexes on Streams & Regexes on Streams - Revisited! by tsee
• Puzzle: Longest Increasing Sequence by TedPride
• Partitioning a set into parts of given sizes by blokhead
• Largest Sum of Consecutive Integers by OverlordQ
• [Study]: Searching for square roots by monsieur_champs
• Hamming Sequences and Lazy Lists by tall_man
• Preserving Calling Context by TedYoung
• Finding all Combinations by narse
• Who's a thief? -- the follow up by Ovid
• Challenge: Chasing Knuth's Conjecture by kvale
• Algorithm::Treap by demerphq
• Standardized Interface Design for Search tree by demerphq
• Algorithm for cancelling common factors between two lists of multiplicands by BrowserUk
• number of unique characters in a string by Anonymous Monk
• Weird number generator by jimt

Nodes I wrote:

• Value of "RE"-coding for the newbie
• Balancing Coding Time And Code Quality
• Priority Sorting Challenge
• Challenge: Setting Sun Puzzle
• Triangle Numbers Revisited
• Challenge: Mystery Word Puzzle
• Performance Trap - Opening/Closing Files Inside a Loop
• Challenge - Creative Way To Detect Alpha Characters
• Better mousetrap (getting top N values from list X)
• Challenge: Nearest Palindromic Number
• Generating powerset with progressive ordering
• Necessity is the mother of invention
• Challenge: Another Infinite Lazy List
• Vampire Numbers Revisited
• Rotationally Prime Numbers Revisited
• How To: Make An Iterator + Extended version on perl.com
• Odd Ball Challenge
• Efficiently finding values of an extremity
• How A Function Becomes Higher Order
• Coming Down From The Pedestal
• Challenge: Box Blackout
• Arbitrarily Nested Loops
• How Are Attributes Useful?
• Challenge: Number of unique ways to reach target sum
• RFC: Integer::Partition::Unrestricted
• RFC: Cribbage::Hand
• Challenge: Twist On Bin Packing
• Challenge: Egg Timer Puzzles
• Patience Sorting To Find Longest Increasing Subsequence
• Challenge: Hidden Message
• Longest Common Subsequence
• Breaking The Rules
• A Better Word Morph Builder
• Big-O Notation - What is it good for?
• Powerset short-circuit optimization
• Algorithm to convert combinations to bitstring
• How many words does it take?

[bennymack]

Per IRC discussion of additions:

http://perl.plover.com/context.html update: nevermind, you linked to all of them.

Really awesome post BTW!!!

[QM]

I didnt' see Quiz of the Week, so I'm adding it.