Introduction to Cryptography by Christof Paar: https://www.youtube.com/@introductiontocryptography4223. This is a great introductory cryptography course which is perfect to complement the great textbook from the same author.
I have been reading Matt' blog for quite long too. I read his post on his son condition but never really noticed if he really switch his academic careers for his son. I am pasting the really motivating video sharing the story [1] and a NY times article here [2].
I was writing (almost) daily email when I and my wife were in long distance relationship during the time my wife studied for her master degree. It happened just in the early days of our marriage. It was the day before WhatsApp has video call feature and long time before zoom. The small daily email quite helping us to form the bonding. Couple o lf years ago I dumped the email into this blog http://www.dearwifey.com/.
Writing book is my another bucket list beside building a startup. Speaking about scope, writing book is still hard but seems more doable than startup.
I remember have skim your book, although I didn't read every pages. But as any good technical book and as you said, not everyone are having sufficient energy to average 60 hour weeks for 1.5 years. Put aside they are also a parent. :)
I want to be more present during children golden period time. I want to nurture their curiosity, problem solving and creativity, so that they can be better than me in their careers and life. Of course I want to continue to be present as they grow older too. But as they older the attention span needed should be not as much as before.
Yeah I think I should start with simple software side project and taking it slow but steady.
Nice point. I also understand age factor is a myth in determining business success, as presented by Ali Tamaseb in his book Super Founders. About finance, I am thinking to continue working hard and as employee while saving aggressively, have family time and start some idea experimentation part-time. Once the children older, then only will start something more focusely.
Hi, Maximilien. I really like the structure of the books. It starts with "what we will learn" and ends with "test yourself" and key takeaways. The structure can help the reader to really conscious in understanding the learning goals and validating the understanding.
I also always want to write a programming language book or some other technical topic book in general, which the writing process will I use as learning process for myself. But I always wonder in deciding the topic to cover. How do you decide the topics to cover? Do you start from following existing books or online documentation topic sequences? Or just write whatever topic you are interested first and structure the content afterward?
There is specific arabic word for it "Sadaqah" which means charity. Zakat is actually one of the Islamic pillar about charity to purifies. There is specific percentage or amount for different zakat. Zakat is the form of charity.
I also just started doing Android in my work (previously mainly doing backend development). I see that the best resource will be just the Android documentation itself [1]. I can't suggest any specific book, because book about Android get outdated very quickly. If you like an online course, Udacity offers some Android courses [2] that is made by Google. As an additional note, once you have passed the basic hello world application and understand the basic concept of simple activity, lifecycle and intent, you should explore Android Architecture Component [3] which is required if you want to write a bigger more complex application. Last, for youtube video just see Google I/O videos or any other Android conference video, once you want to dig deeper for more specific topics.
From my own experience, if you are just getting started, I found "Computer Networking: A Top-down Approach by Kurose is a good introduction. It is top down, started from application layer and going down to link layer. That approach make an easier learning process because we can make sense different kind of application such as web/http, email, DNS, etc leverage the lower network layers to deliver its functionality.
I care a lot about my physical book too. I experienced receiving damaged books for several times. If it is not really bad, I just accept it. Returning it just waste my time. But if it is to bad I will request for refund. The worst case was when I purchased The Art of Software Security Assessment. The books is really heavy, but Amazon packing in it very badly and the package torn open, then I think the local post office repackage it using some plastic bag. At the end almost all pages of the books folded badly. I initiated a refund and sending the book back to amazon. The book was around S$70 and the postal cost to return it to US from Singapore was almost S$100 more expensive than the book price. Amazon refunded the book price and also the postal cost. But indeed it is a hassle. As comparison, Bookdepository always pack the books very well and secure. I have never had any experience of getting any edge folded book at all. Unfortunately the price is still not as cheap as at Amazon. It is suck but for now there is no ideal alternative.