Re: Software book recommendations...

On Wed, Feb 3, 2010 at 6:50 AM, Ged Byrne <[email protected]> wrote:

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> You might find this link over on stack overflow useful:
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> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/72406/what-development-book-made-the-most-impact-on-you-as-a-developer-closed
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> For me, the most impact came from the following books:
>   * The Pragmatic Programmer - Helps you see all programming as something
> more than just writing code.
>   * Code Complete - Common sense encapsulated.
>   * Object Oriented Software Construction - Introduces Design by Contract
>   * Thinking Forth - About thinking, not programming.
>  This desperately needs updating.
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The FORTH community seems to have stagnated somewhat over the last few
years, or so it seems to me, as an outsider looking in.

I have always enjoyed playing with FORTH, but have yet to write a program of
any real complexity in it.

In an attempt to add something useful to this thread: I'd strongly recommend
_Pragmatic Thinking and Learning_ - also not strictly speaking a software
book, but IMO well worth the read.

Also, depending on your language preferences, I'd recommend:

_C Traps and Pitfalls_
_Effective Java_
_Java Puzzlers_
_The Ruby Quiz_

-Chris



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