Mike's functional IoC container: http://mikehadlow.blogspot.co.uk/2012/10/a-functional-ioc-container.html

Rust, a new systems programming language from Mozilla: http://www.rust-lang.org/

About Rust's ownership/borrowing memory model: http://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ownership.html

nand2tetris: http://www.nand2tetris.org/

Charles Petzold - Code: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Software/dp/0735611319

Elon Musk learning - http://lifehacker.com/elon-musk-on-learning-new-things-view-knowledge-as-a-t-1677850415