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  1. Comment on Suggestions to spend my educational budget on in ~comp

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    Thanks for the suggestion. Improving my C++ skills would be time and money well spent. As you say, there is a tremendous volume of "learn anything"-stuff out there. And I guess there lies my...

    Thanks for the suggestion. Improving my C++ skills would be time and money well spent.

    As you say, there is a tremendous volume of "learn anything"-stuff out there. And I guess there lies my tension - I'm not sure what to get in the end. I guess it is some form of decision paralysis.

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  2. Suggestions to spend my educational budget on

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    The end of the year is approaching fast and I still have some educational budget to spend. Therefore I would love to hear your suggestions for educational resources to spend some money on. I'm...

    The end of the year is approaching fast and I still have some educational budget to spend. Therefore I would love to hear your suggestions for educational resources to spend some money on.

    I'm open for all suggestions, but I would love to dive more into low level programming. I spend most of my work time as a backend dev. And it is nice for a change to something else than REST-endpoints.
    At the beginning of the year, I bought the amazing Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom and I'm enjoying tremendously.

    So any recommendations going into the same direction or similar deep dives into topics like OS-dev, Game dev/graphics (tiny renderer comes to my mind) or writing emulators would be appreciated.

    To get the discussion started, my top recommendation for his year would be Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom.
    If you are interested in the inner workings of interpreter and compilers and want a nice "program-along" book get it. I would recommend the paper-version, it is a beautiful book.

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  3. Comment on Please suggest me some books from past decades and centuries that are not widely known classics but you value and would like people to discover in ~books

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    I'm not sure how popular this is outside the German speaking countries, but I have nothing but praise for Hermann Hesse's 1922 novel Siddhartha. There is an English translation available and it is...

    I'm not sure how popular this is outside the German speaking countries, but I have nothing but praise for Hermann Hesse's 1922 novel Siddhartha. There is an English translation available and it is an amazing novel about self discovery.

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