What dev books are you reading?

[Chris Losinger]

Thomas Pynchon's Against The Day. it teaches me that i don't know anything, and never will.

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[lost in transition]

Linux for embedded systems.

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[DavidNohejl]

Hmm I don't know if Ecma-335 (CLI spec) would make a good book, but that's what I am reading these days. clicky[^]

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[Rajesh R Subramanian]

Currently reading Professional C# 2005 [ ...Starting with C# :) ]

[Chris Austin]

"Understanding Industrial Designed Experiments." I honestly love stats and probability and I find that most coders I've worked with know nothing about parametric data or quality. A little crusade of mine :) Better Software through Better understanding of quality.

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[Beth Mackenzie]

Plenty of C# above. I've browsed through DotNetZero pdf book by Charles Petzold. I've tended to prefer working with C++ though, but i'm a closet convert to the flow of C#. You're right John, cannot be Developer at all the time, love to bake though :) i'm reading Destructive Emotions by Daniel Goleman covering opinions between Western Scientists and Buddist Philosophies - No slacking here :D B -- modified at 15:13 Thursday 19th April, 2007

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[Kevin McFarlane]

No C++. That's for dinosaurs. :) (Ducks and runs for cover) However, I do have the earlier editions of the Scott Meyers books. They or comparable should be mandatory for C++ devs. I'm in .NET land at the moment, so I'm reading Pro WF.

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[pbraun]

I'm reading the tags on my mattress. That's heavy stuff when they are on top of you.... :laugh: Phil

[pbraun]

I have done that in a past job as well. I find that unless you get some experience with some of the "make it look pretty" coding, potential employers tend to gloss over the experience you have. Phil

[Beth Mackenzie]

Fine :D But I'm also doing .NET stuff with C# Outlook Add-in's for our Sales (in Riverblade land) with wonderful threading and databasing and NUnit too, so there!!

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[Ravi Bhavnani]

MSDN and the Architecture Journal. /ravi

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[Lost User]

Bethany ) wrote:

My book worming has reached into Scott Meyers Effective C++ (3rd) + More Effective C++

Someone pinched my copies of those books a couple of years ago :( I've been reading his Effective STL book lately

[Lost User]

brianwelsch wrote:

I'll be getting into "Pro C# 2005 and the .NET 2.0 Platform" by Andrew Troelsen this weekend.

I bought that same book last year and I have read most of it. It is a very good book. Actually I love it. You shouldn't be disappointed at all, especially if you get the hard cover.

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[Sebastian Schneider]

I just bought myself my first own copy of TAOCP Vol. 1, as well as the GoF Design Patterns. I live next door to the public library, so I usually went there to read in them, but they recently announced that they would close that branch next year, so I figured, what the heck, I'll buy them. Did not expect them to take such a bite out of my account ;)

Cheers, Sebastian -- Ceterum censeo, borlandem esse delendam.

[Mike Dimmick]

I don't do any driver stuff, but I think every developer should read the first one so they have the first clue what the OS is actually doing with their program.

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[JudyL_MD]

pbraun wrote:

I have done that in a past job as well. I find that unless you get some experience with some of the "make it look pretty" coding, potential employers tend to gloss over the experience you have.

I agree that some employers will ignore that but it depends on what job market / industry domain you're looking in. I've never done work that included much of the "pretty" stuff and I've been not doing it continuously for over 20 years in 4 different states (ok, 3 states but the two parts of Florida I've been in can't be considered the same state). I do make GUIs and such to provide command and control for the hardware I'm talking to and the software services I'm providing to other programs, but the GUIs have never been for widespread consumption. I think the target audience of your project is the key - commercial (mass market) versus internal engineeer / single customer (very limited market). If the end-user base is small, "pretty" becomes what the customer, whom you can sit down with on-on-one, decides is ideal for their needs. The one-off customer doesn't usually want "pretty." They want efficient and easy-to-use and usually have enough knowledge of the problem being solved that you don't have to include lots of bells and whistles to hold their hand while they use the program. Note that you still need a well-designed GUI taking advantage of the controls that are available but I've never written something that I'd consider included the "pretty" stuff. Judy