book_reading

Policy
Poor Charlie's Almanack
Pro Git
Probability and statistics with applications to computing
Right Kind of Wrong
Python for Finance Cookbook
Test-Driven Development with Python
The Vest Pocket CPA
Pandas 1.x Cookbook
The human body
Python Automation Cookbook - Jaime Buelta - 2nd edition - 2020
Financial Accounting - LibreTexts - 20220616
algorithmic trading with tnteractive brokers python

Policy

Policy:

Once you finish reading the book, move the entry to goodreads.
sort order: Latest read book comes first.

Why:

Goodreads assumes that you read from beginning to end. But I tend to read couple of pages here and there. This is my naive way to keep track of the progress.

Poor Charlie's Almanack

Book details:

title: Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
author: Charles T. Munger
by: Peter D. Kaufman (Editor), Warren Buffett (Foreword), John Collison (Foreword), , Charles T. Munger (Rebuttal)
edition: 4
published: 2023-12-05
isbn: 978-1-953953-23-0
pages: 384
format: Hardcover
goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/91391352-poor-charlie-s-almanack
amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Poor-Charlies-Almanack-Essential-Charles/dp/1953953239/
will be using the page numbers in the book to track progress.

date	pages	overall progress
2024-09-25 12:59 am	[1-6]	[1-6]
2024-09-25 1:27 am	[7-13]	[1-13]
2024-09-26 12:34 am	[14-16]	[1-16]
2024-09-29 12:51 am	[17-27]	[1-27]

Pro Git

Book details:

Pro Git - Scott Chacon, Ben Straub - 2nd edition - version 2.1.433 - 2024-08-20
Pages: {total in pdf: 501, front matter: 1-6, content: 7-498, back matter: 499-501}
Will be using the pages in the book (and not pdf) to track the progress.

date	pages	overall progress	notes
2024-09-04	[105-106]	[105-106]	High information density; easy to understand and follow along.

Probability and statistics with applications to computing

Book details:

Probability and statistics with applications to computing - Alex Tsun
published: 2020
Pages: {total in pdf: 383, front matter: 1-6, content: 7-366, back matter: 367-383}
Will be using the pages in the book (and not pdf) to track the progress.

date	pages	overall progress	notes
2024-07-07	[7-26]	[7-26]	Well written; well formatted; easy to understand and follow along. The examples are non-trivial and all the examples come with solutions.

Right Kind of Wrong

Book details:

title: Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well
author: Amy C. Edmondson
published: 2023-09-05
pages: 350
will be using the page numbers in the book to track progress.
checkout due date: 2024-06-17

date	pages	overall progress
2024-05-21	[1-2]	[1-2]
2024-05-22	[3-6]	[1-6]
2024-05-25	[7-10]	[1-10]
2024-05-26	[11-12]	[1-12]
2024-06-02	[13-14]	[1-14]
2024-06-19 1:02 am	[15-16]	[1-16]

Python for Finance Cookbook

Book details:

Python for Finance Cookbook - Eryk Lewinson - 2nd edition - 2022
Pages: {total in pdf: 741, front matter: 1-19, content: 20-721, back matter: 722-741}
Will be using the pages in the book (and not pdf) to track the progress.

date	pages	overall progress	notes
2023-05-20	[1-1]	[1-1]
2023-05-21	[2-3]	[1-3]	The book talks about yfinance. But it is not working at the moment. More details at https://github.com/ranaroussi/yfinance/issues/1407 . Use yahooquery until then.
2023-05-22	[4-5]	[1-5]	Have to create an account at Nasdaq Data Link.

Test-Driven Development with Python

Book details:

Test-Driven Development with Python - Harry J. W. Percival - 2017 - 2nd edition
Pages: {total in pdf: 614, front matter: 1-38, content: 39-602, back matter: 603-614}
Why I wanted to read it:
- I was looking for a book that discusses “authentication”
Will be using the pages in the book (and not pdf) to track the progress.

date	pages	overall progress	notes
2022-12-12	[xv-xxv]	[xv-xxv]	pg-xxvi asks to install Geckodriver. Do that before continuing.
2022-12-13	[xxvi-xxvi]	[xv-xxvi]	Installing geckodriver was easy. The .tar.gz contains a single file called geckodriver!

The Vest Pocket CPA

Book details:

The Vest Pocket CPA - Joel G. Siegel, Nick A. Dauber, Jae K. Shim - edition 4 - 2008
Pages: {total in pdf: 760, front matter: 1-34, content: 35-742, back matter: 743-760}
Why I wanted to read it:
- I was looking for books that discuss “treasury stock method”
Will be using the pages in the book (and not pdf) to track the progress.

date	pages	overall progress
2022-12-03 10 am	[1-3]	[1-3]
2022-12-03 11 am	[4-20]	[1-20]
2022-12-05 10 am	[21-23]	[1-23]

Pandas 1.x Cookbook

Book details:

Title: Pandas 1.x Cookbook
Sub title: Practical recipes for scientific compuing, time series analysis, and exploratory data analysis using Python
Authors: Matt Harrison, Theodore Petrou
Edition: 2
Publisher: Packt
ISBN: 978-1-83921-310-6
Year: 2020
Pages: {total in pdf: 627, front matter: 1-21, content: 22-615, back matter: 616-627}
Why I wanted to read it in the first place:
- I was looking for books that discuss the pandas merge_asof() function and came across the first edition of this book.
- The second edition does not talk about the merge_asof(). But the pandas discussion seemed pretty comprehensive and interesting. So I want to read it from end to end.
Will be using the pages in the book (and not pdf) to track the progress.

date	pages	overall progress	notes
2022-11-12	[1-1]	[1-1]
2022-11-13	[x-xii]	[x-xii][1-1]
2022-11-14	[xiii-xiv][2-6]	[x-xiv][1-6]
2023-02-06	[7-13]	[x-xiv][1-13]	lots of good stuff.

The human body

Book details:

Title: The human body
sub title: An essential guide to how the body works
Author: Dr. Peter Abrahams
Publisher: Amber books
This edition published in 2021. Reprinted in 2022.
ISBN: 978-1-83886-096-7
pages: 512

Purchase details:

{from: Costco, in: 2022-11, for: $13}

date	pages	overall progress
2022-11-08	[1-7]	[1-7]
2022-11-09	[8-8]	[1-8]
2022-11-13	[9-9]	[1-9]

Python Automation Cookbook - Jaime Buelta - 2nd edition - 2020

pages in pdf: 527
front matter: page 1 - 17; content: page 18 - 514; back matter: page 515 - 527

Why I wanted to read it in the first place:
- I was looking for books that discusss the argparse.FileType() function and came across this.
- The discussion on pytest in Chapter 12 seems to be interesting.

date	pages	overall progress	notes
2022-10-06	[16-23]	[16-23]	Uses Python 3.8

Financial Accounting - LibreTexts - 20220616

url: https://biz.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Accounting/Book%3A_Accounting_in_the_Finance_World

pages in pdf: 373

front matter: page 1- page 12; content: page 13 - page 363; back matter: page 364 - 373

date	pages	overall progress	notes
2022-06-17	[13-16]	[13-16]	Easy to understand. Seems like a book worth reading from end to end.
2022-07-25	[59]	[13-16], [59]
2022-07-27	[60],[17-20]	[13-20], [59-60]	The Socratic method of asking and answering questions is very helpful.
2022-10-02	[240-241]	[13-20], [59-60], [240-241]	Talks about “the equity method” of accounting for investments. I came across the latter in this Reuter's article.

algorithmic trading with tnteractive brokers python

Total positions in the ebook = 658; Using Calibre to store highlights.

date	pages	overall progress	notes
2022-06-13	[1.0-5.0]	[1.0-5.0]
2022-06-14 08:00 AM	[5.1-14.6]	[1.0-14.6]	Have to start from “1.2 Trader Workstation and the TWS API” section onwards
2022-06-14 11:48 PM	[14.7-15.6]	[1.0-15.6]	Have to install TWS from https://www.interactivebrokers.com/en/index.php?f=16042 and then read “1.2.1 Introducing Trader Workstation”

Total pages in the pdf = 534; Using okular to store highlights.

date	pages	overall progress	notes
2023-01-07 02:48 AM	[19-27]	[19-27]	Section 1.2 starts in pg 19. It is also the starting page for 1.2.1 Installed TWS Installed TWS API Downloaded the example code

Table of Contents

Policy

Poor Charlie's Almanack

Pro Git

Probability and statistics with applications to computing

Right Kind of Wrong

Python for Finance Cookbook

Test-Driven Development with Python

The Vest Pocket CPA

Pandas 1.x Cookbook

The human body

Python Automation Cookbook - Jaime Buelta - 2nd edition - 2020

Financial Accounting - LibreTexts - 20220616

algorithmic trading with tnteractive brokers python