From my reading list. April 2017

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Books I read

Programming Ruby 1.9 & 2.0. My first book on Ruby, found it very valuable. For sure recommend it as your first book to learn about Ruby, good example, easy to read.
Pragmatic Scala: Create Expressive, Concise, and Scalable Applications. Good introduction, gives you good overall knowledge of the language, after this book could write some solid Scala code.
Metaprogramming Ruby 2: Program Like the Ruby Pros. Second book about Ruby. For sure recommend to learn more about it, best practices, hardcore examples. Mostly will be suitable for authors of frameworks.
Text Processing with Ruby: Extract Value from the Data That Surrounds You. Have not seen any value in this book after reading two books from above. Just basic ideas about how to process text.
Build Awesome Command-Line Applications in Ruby: Control Your Computer, Simplify Your Life. Same, have not seen any values. Just basic ideas how to write good CLI tools and how to do that in Ruby.
Working with Ruby Threads. Just a refresh from what you have learned from System Programming course and some examples of how to work with Threads in Ruby.
A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms: Level Up Your Core Programming Skills. To simple, to basic.
Take My Money: Accepting Payments on the Web. Read it just only because of curiosity.
Ruby Performance Optimization: Why Ruby Is Slow, and How to Fix It. Expected much more from this book. Good set of tools, but wanted to learn more about anything specific for Ruby.