Big Data for Dummies

- Part I. Big Data. 3 characteristics: volume, velocity, variety
   - technology: MapReduce, BigTable, Hadoop (started at Yahoo)
- Part II. Tech foundations. p. 68. Hypervisor
   - cloud: Amazon (EC2, 2006), Google (Big Data), MS (Azure), Rackspace, NASA (OpenStack).
- Part III. Management
   - CH 7. Relational Database. CRUD, ACID.
                Non-relational Database.
   - CH 8. MapReduce
   - CH 9. Hadoop
- Part IV. Analytics & Big Data
   - p.145. Data Mining: classfication, log regression, NN, clustering (k-means etc).

Some C#, ASP.NET and SQL books

Browsed some C#, ASP.NET and SQL books. Quickly get through large amount of material, to review and refresh old knowledge, and gain an understanding of new advancement. Most of these books are written for beginners. However, each more or less covers things I did not notice in the past.

- ASP.NET 2.0 in C# 2005
- Learn Microsoft Visual C# 2010. By John Paul Mueller
- murach's ASP.NET web programming with C# 2010, 4th Edition.
- Visual C# 2008. By John Sharp
- Visual C# 2012. By John Sharp. (This book is a minor update from the 2008 version)
- Sams Teach Yourself SQL in 24 hours
- MS SQL Server 2008, by Mike Hotek.
- Big Data for Dummies

Long words short, ASP.NET evolution (see wiki page on ASP.NET):

- 2002.1   1.0  OO, based on windows programming, can use DLL. ADO.NET. VS.NET
- 2003.4   1.1  Automatic input validation; mobile controls. Bug fix, performance increase. VS.NET 2003.
- 2005.11  2.0 Major updates: Partial class, Generics, Anonymous methods, Iterators, master page, theme, navigation, Grid/Form/DetailsView, Login, skin etc. VS.NET 2005
- 2006.11  3.0 WCF, WPF, WFF,
- 2007.11  3.5 MVC (easier to test and for plugable IoC containers etc.), Silverlight, LINQ, Ajax, ADO.NET Entity Framework, ListView, DataPager etc. VS.NET 2008. Windows Server 2008.
- 2012.4    4.0 Parallel extensions.
- 2012.8    4.5 VS.NET 2012. Windows Server 2012. Window 8.

Interesting blog

学术人生，华山论剑！

sed

Use sed to replace some string in a large file (example tested is 2GB in size):

sed -i 's/old_value/new_value/g' filename

Some more examples are there. It seems like in vi using "%s/old_value/new_value/g" is much slower.

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Some more books read recently

编程之美.
数学之美. 吴军著.
Big Data (大数据时代, 2013). Viktor Mayer-Schonberger, Kenneth Cukier.
晓说2. 高晓松著.

Books on Programming Contests

算法艺术与信息学竞赛. 刘汝佳, 黄亮著 (2003). 经典著作. 高度推荐. 理论介绍全面深入, 一些别的书不常见的内容这里也有. 难度较高. 有大量经典题目. 2003版为一册. 最近新版(算法竞赛入门经典(2009), 算法竞赛入门经典--训练指南(2012), 算法艺术与问题求解)更新为三册. 百度百科简介.

ACM国际大学生程序设计竞赛. 俞勇主编 (2013). (ISBN 978-7-302-29413-9). 分四册. 全面精简, 书薄, 总结得好, 易读易懂易记. 高度推荐.

实用算法的分析与程序设计(1998)/新编实用算法的分析与程序设计(2008). 吴文虎、王建德编著. 经典老著作.

程序设计中使用的数据结构. 王建德, 吴永辉编著 (2012). (ISBN 978-7-115-26865-5). 组织分成三部分: 线性表, 树, 图. 比较全面. 例题有一定难度. 但是伪代码难读, 排版需要改进, 感觉也不是太有必要包括, 读者不太可能去仔细阅读伪代码.

ACM程序设计(国际大学生程序设计竞赛指南). 曾棕根 编著. 第二版(2011). 内容浅显, 非常适合入门, 推荐给刚刚开始接触程序竞赛的人. 比较有用的是第二章.C++STL泛型编程, 详细介绍了STL.

其它有很多关于真题集的书. 有兴趣有时间可以看. 不然的话, 以上的书打好基础完全够用了.