A commonplace page.
First and last lines.
Hot enough for ya?
A talk on Scala for the Monmouth County ACM, 7 June 2008.

Java Developers’ advice to students.
Brian Brooks’ advice to incomming first-year CS students (drops the f-bomb, among other things).
Paul Graham’s advice to CS undergrads and more advice.
Cosma Shalizi’s programmer advice (general advice aligned with the R statistical-computing language).
Things to do while you’re a CS student. More things to do.

Once you've taken all that advice, you might want to see how it turned out.
A somewhat more negative checklist. An inability to think abstractly is no bar to a management career. I’ve seen a strong positive correlation between a person’s inability to think abstractly and that person’s importance in the management hierarchy.

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