[Chicago] Best programming / dev book in 2015

[Christopher Allan Webber]

Jason Wirth writes:

> Hi,
>
> The year is coming to an end so it's time for reflections.
>
> What's the best programming / development book you read in 2015? *
>
> * non-Python books are Ok too.
>
> Jason

Getting involved in the scheme community over the last year has changed
me dramatically as a programmer, so the best book I read this year is
about as old as I am: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs:

  https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

Wonderfully, the whole book is available online and is CC BY-SA 4.0,
though a hand-held copy is worth the investment.

However I think SICP is a bit hard to get into initially, particularly
because thinking in both s-expressions and thinking recursively can be
very difficult (I was familiar with lispy s-expressions but not thinking
recusively...) a book that really opened my mind up to that was The
Little Schemer.

As such, I've been recently spending a lot of time in GNU Guile (some of
you saw me talk about Guix), which also recently got a nice website
overhaul:

  https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/

Happy hacking :)
 - Chris