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Slightly off topic but I love Adrian Coyler’s blog. Since I never pursued graduate studies in CS I never really got into reading research papers but would love to start reading some on my commute to work.

Does anyone have any recommendations for finding interesting papers? Do I need to buy subscriptions? Is there a list of “recommended” papers to read like we have with programming literature e.g. The Pragmatic Programmer?

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ACM subscription helps, since their "Digital Library" has pretty good coverage of the CS literature. This is something that your employer might want to sponsor.

A strategy to find interesting papers that are worth reading as a novice in the field, is to pick any current paper that is interesting to you and look for heavily cited references. The following websites have citation data for papers:

[1] SemanticScholar.com

[2] GoogleScholar.com

[3] citeseerx.ist.psu.edu

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