papers-we-love_papers-we-love/README.md

##Papers We Love

• Repository Related to this Meetup

##Info

We're looking for pull requests related to papers we should add, better organization of the papers we do have, and/or links to other paper-repos we should point to.

Other Good Places to Find Papers

• Best Paper Awards in Computer Science
• Facebook
• Google Scholar (choose a subcategory)
• Microsoft
• Vijay D'Silva
• Functional Programming Books Review
• MIT's Distributed System's Reading Group

How To Read a Paper

Reading a paper is not the same as reading a blogpost or a novel. Here are a few handy resources to help you get started.

• [How to read an academic article] (http://organizationsandmarkets.com/2010/08/31/how-to-read-an-academic-article/)
• [Advice on reading academic papers] (http://www4.ncsu.edu/~akmassey/posts/2012-02-15-advice-on-reading-academic-papers.html)
• [How to read and understand a scientific paper] (http://violentmetaphors.com/2013/08/25/how-to-read-and-understand-a-scientific-paper-2/)

Contributing Guidelines

We have a few guidelines in place to keep the repo clean and easy to navigate. Follow these conventions in your pull-request for a speedy merge.

• Directory names are undercased and separated by underscores (example: artificial_intelligence)
• Paper names are undercased and separated by dashes (example: out-of-the-tar-pit.pdf). Use the full title when possible.