From 2b018dff40cc915baee95bbda5c077c1804ec635 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Roscoe A. Bartlett" Date: Sat, 12 Jan 2019 12:28:42 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Fix some typos --- cv.md | 2 +- reading-list.md | 15 ++++++++------- 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-) diff --git a/cv.md b/cv.md index 9855540..7ff4546 100644 --- a/cv.md +++ b/cv.md @@ -41,5 +41,5 @@ permalink: /cv/ * **Frederick Community College**, Frederick MD (1991-1993) * **GPA**: 3.955/4.0 -* **Hood College**, Frederick MD (1991-1992)} +* **Hood College**, Frederick MD (1991-1992) * **GPA**: 4.0/4.0 diff --git a/reading-list.md b/reading-list.md index 577b61a..4d25f88 100644 --- a/reading-list.md +++ b/reading-list.md @@ -40,14 +40,15 @@ Stroustrup's book [*The C++ Programming Language, 2nd Edition*](#the_cxx_programming_language_special_edition). While that book mostly just covered the C++ language, Stroustrup made some references to writing tests and some other basic software engineering best practices but it -was very minimal (after all, this was a book about a programming language, not -software engineering). Later my first year of graduate school I was +was minimal (after all, this was a book about a programming language, not +software engineering). Later in my first year of graduate school, I was introduced to the book [*Design Patterns*](#design_patterns_1995) by a Computer Science Ph.D. student at CMU. Armed with the knowledge of C++ and Design Patterns, I set about writing a sizable amount of software implementing advanced numerical algorithms for constrained optimization as part of my -Ph.D. work (the optimization package at that point was called rSQP++ for -reduced successive quadratic programming). +Ph.D. work (the optimization package at that point was called +[rSQP++](../publications#rsqpxx_2003) for reduced successive quadratic +programming). When I started working at Sandia National Labs in 2001 after my Ph.D., I continued writing object-oriented parallel numerical software in C++, @@ -71,9 +72,9 @@ prior to gaining this knowledge, I had created tens of thousands of lines of CSE software of insufficient quality and that I was now in a position have to maintain. -It is my hope that this reading list we be useful and will help motivate -others to go on the same journey. Once you are armed with this knowege, there -is no going back! +It is my hope that this reading list will be useful and help motivate others +to obtain this knowledge and skills earlier in their professional careers +(sooner than I did). Once armed with this knowledge, there is no going back! ## A) General Software Engineering Books