It wasn’t until my second year at the university (fall of 2015) that I began reading computer science / programming books. At the time, I was taking a course on computer networking, and the course book was Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (Kurose & Ross). I felt the lectures weren’t in-depth enough, so I picked up the book. Before that, I had gotten decent grades by mostly attending the lectures, labs, and not buying any books, other than books required for mandatory task work.