career

Book Review: The Passionate Programmer written by Chad Fowler

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I just happened to get to know about this book while browsing through the books on Flipkart and the book immediately caught my attention. So here’s my review of the book:

First things first:

  • Really cool cover page of the book – [I know Chad Fowler’s musical interest has some role to play in the designing of the cover page]
  • 200 odd pages book- So you don’t feel its overdose of information
  • Short chapters, lighter book. Each chapter followed by Act it! which guides you on how to implement the ideas explained.
  • Nice and legible font used for the content.

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Eight Things to do in College to be Successful in Your Career

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I stumbled upon this interesting article(link given at the bottom) using “StumbleUpon” plugin for Firefox. Really interesting article and i thougth of linking up this post to that article. Most of us  just spend our college life doing nothing or slogging for Grades. Both are in a way will lead to a disastrous career in … Read more

Getting straight A’s in college? Aiming for it?

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I got to the article “Twentysomething: Why I regret getting straight A’s in college” from a link in some blog post. I really enjoyed reading the article- May be because i am not the one getting straight A’s or may be i enjoy reading such career related articles. Its about a person, slogging his time … Read more