Neldiritto Editore commissioned it in 2025 and published it in 2026
The publisher came to me with the brief, and I wrote the manual alone for candidates sitting Italian public administration competitive exams (Concorsi Pubblici). It came out under the NLD Concorsi imprint as Informatica per i concorsi pubblici 2026, Manuale di teoria e quiz commentati. The readers are working professionals who need computing fundamentals solid enough to pass an exam, and that audience fixed the level of every chapter.
Every chapter is built from the same three parts
| Part | What it holds |
|---|---|
| Core concept | first principles, with no prior knowledge assumed |
| Progressive depth | intuition first, then technical precision |
| Exam practice | worked examples and the common pitfalls |
Over 800 hours of teaching decided which details earned the page
Calibrating the level was the hard part: too technical and the reader is gone, too simplified and the reader gets a mental model that breaks a chapter later. Rigor wants precision and completeness, accessibility wants fewer moving parts on the page, so each chapter is a decision about which detail stays. I settled most of those decisions from mentoring university students since 2022, which showed me where people get stuck, rarely where textbooks assume they will.