Spring Reading: 2011 edition
Books are expensive, but by the power of higher-education (also expensive, but differently so), vast oceans of books are available to an enterprising compsci. Here’s my reading list for the spring break lending period (many of which were recommended on #haskell:

- Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming by Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi. Wonderfully iconoclastic book, and probably one of the easier reads on the list.
- Types and Programming Languages by Benjamin Pierce. I’ve been working on this one for a while; this break I’m focusing on the proof strategies for preservation, progress and safety, and also using it to complement a self-study course summed up by the next book.
- Lectures on the Curry-Howard Isomorphism by M.H. Sørensen and P. Urzycyzn. Very good, I’ve skimmed the first three chapters and I’m working on the exercises in chapter 2. I’ve been prone to making silly mis-assertions about the Curry-Howard Isomorphism (or is it?), so I’m looking forward to more firmly grounding my understanding of this correspondence. The sections on intuitionistic logic has already been very enlightening.
- Type Theory and Functional Programming by Simon Thompson. Haven’t looked at it yet, but fits into the general course of the previous two books.
- Purely Functional Data Structures by Chris Okasaki. Also one I’ve been working on a while. Working on compressing all the information mentally.
- Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists by Benjamin Pierce. I’ve got two items on category theory; I got this one on a whim. Haven’t looked at it yet.
- Pearls of Functional Algorithm Design by Richard Bird. Something like a collection of puzzles. I think I will enjoy reading through them and working out the subtleties. I probably won’t get to the information compression stage this time around.
- Category Theory by Steve Awodey. I was working on the exercises in this textbook, and think I might get past the first chapter.