Jeff Avery


What Am I Reading?

Minh Quang Tran. 2024. The Art of Functional Programming.

  • The Art of Functional Programming is a “masterclass in the fundamentals and principles of functional programming”. Examples in Scala, OCaml, Haskell and Java. Should be interesting.

What’s next?

Marco Vermeulen et al. 2019. Functional Programming in Kotlin.

  • Functional programming from first principles, using Kotlin examples. This book pitches itself as the Kotlin equivilant of Functional Programming in Scala, which was a significant book for that language.

Jon Ousterhout. 2018. A Philosophy of Software Design.

  • Based on a design course that he teaches at Stanford University. A discussion of software complexity.

Michael L. Scott. 2015. Programming Language Pragmatics (4th ed)

  • The languages textbook that I’ve been meaning to read for years. Maybe I’ll get through it this time before they release a new version and I repurchase it (again).

Brandon Sanderson. 2006. Mistborn: The Final Empire.

  • I’ve certainly known about Sanderson’s novels for a long time, but I’ve never read anything of his. On his website, he suggests this is a great starting point.

Alan Moore. 2023. Miracleman: The Original Epic

  • This is a re-release of the original series, which was originally published in the 1980s. I’ve been a fan of Moore’s work since reading Watchmen.

Completed (2025)