Cortland Mahoney

Programming Interests (Past)

Autodidactic Journey

As a self-taught engineer, my journey of learning to code and build software was driven by curiosity and a commitment to mastering the craft independently. Several topics stood out as particularly compelling during this time. While I won’t dive into them in depth here, I’m happy to discuss any of them in detail through a consultation. Here are my favorite past programming interests:

  • Functional Programming (Hindley-Milner & Lisps)
  • Emacs
  • Desktop Ubuntu
  • TypeScript
  • Website and application development
  • Cloud servers and deployment techniques

Good books

Here are three programming books that I learned a lot by reading and following along with a repl or compiler:

  • The C Book by Mike Banahan, Declan Brady, and Mark Doran
  • Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja by John Resig, Bear Bibeault, and Josip Maras
  • Clojure for the Brave and True by Daniel Higginbotham