links of interest

notes

obably have to think through some books I've read over the years, but right now it's dominated by R. I used to read a fair bit about object-oriented stuff, and now trying to learn C++ I realize how much I've learnt from R over the last 8-10 years. I love John Chamber's "Programming with Data", but I haven't read his newer one and that's probably a better read now. 

I would like to have a wiki-thing that we could dump these lists on and then re-edit prioritize etc. I have some notes I send people for R below. 

My current reading list is 

"The C++ Programming Language", by Bjarne Stroustrup (go for Ed. 4 which is up to date for C++11).

http://alignedleft.com/work/d3-book

https://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&ei=jWKIU4aCBcrk8AXak4GgDA&url=http://jarson.asia/resource/The.Practice.of.Programming.pdf&cd=14&ved=0CHAQFjAN&usg=AFQjCNF-1o8BhjVo8PfuzvqiL2VAn7KTPA&sig2=KzH-iMkhAJ3ikI-RLfweVA


For Python, I would look at these because I want it primarily for GDAL and QGIS scripting (this is a hot topic for DaSH I reckon).  Keen to hear advice, I keep trying to read my old copy of "Learning Python" and not getting anywhere.  I have a dog-eared "Learning Perl" which I loved but that is ancient history. 

http://locatepress.com/gpt

http://locatepress.com/ppg


 :)

For R: 

0) Hadley's book-in-progress  http://adv-r.had.co.nz/

1) There's an "R for Dummies" book which is really good, no matter
what level you are at with R (and no this is not an insinuation of any
kind).

Here's a review of the book: http://www.jstatsoft.org/v50/b01/paper

I recommend the book if you are looking for a good place to start, and
can afford books, or hopefully your library has it.

2) Also important is the "R Inferno", which picks out a great set of
"gotchas" for R users.

http://www.burns-stat.com/pages/Tutor/R_inferno.pdf

3) Here's R on stackoverflow, which is modern and cool unlike the
dowdy old mailing lists:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/r

(I do also recommend the mailings lists, the archives are (mostly)
rich with helpful examples and discussion:
http://www.r-project.org/mail.html ).

4) Finally, familiarize yourself with the  Task Views on CRAN (which
collate domain-specific materials),

http://cran.csiro.au/other-docs.html

try the Contributed docs,

http://cran.csiro.au/other-docs.html

read (and re-read) the FAQs:

http://cran.csiro.au/faqs.html
https://www.stat.auckland.ac.nz/~ihaka/?Papers_and_Talks

Coding Horror: http://blog.codinghorror.com/a-pragmatic-quick-reference/

I used to read Joel Spolsky a bit.

Also this is magic:  http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of_Computer_Programs

On the Lisp front is also Richard Gabriel, the guy who fell out with Stallman over Emacs

I used to follow this a bit: http://www.paulgraham.com/arc.html


http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pragmatic_Programmer
http://msdresearch.blogspot.com.au/?m=1