What is your favorite Programing Book?
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Hello Of Course you have read many books but which one had been more influence in your programing? Please tell me the books with field of .net programing or SQL Server or design and architecture. Thank you
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This one: The Computer (Ladybird How It Works Series 654): Amazon.co.uk: David Carey, B.H. Robinson: Books[^] No, seriously. It's a very good overview of what they are (or at least were) and was responsible for my whole decision to enter the field of programming. You can't get more influential than that!
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Hello Of Course you have read many books but which one had been more influence in your programing? Please tell me the books with field of .net programing or SQL Server or design and architecture. Thank you
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I doubt it will help you very much, but it was this one here.[^] It came with my first computer in 1978 and I still have my old copy and sometimes read a chapter, just for fun. This little book was so influential because it sent me on the way that always kept me close to the processor and gave me a notorious dislike of everything that tries to hide the processor from me, like interpreters and scripting languages. Edit: let's not forget the great instruction set of the 1802:
0000 90 CLEAR: GHI 0 .. REGISTER 0 HAS 0001
0001 AE PLO 14 .. MAKE RE=0000
0002 BE PHI 14
0003 EE LOOP: SEX 14 .. EACH TIME, R14 IS -1
0004 73 STXD .. D STILL HAS 00
0005 30 BR LOOP .. GO BACK FOR ANOTHER
0006 03The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
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Hello Of Course you have read many books but which one had been more influence in your programing? Please tell me the books with field of .net programing or SQL Server or design and architecture. Thank you
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I can't narrow this down to a single book so I'll give a couple: Clean Code by Robert Martin - great for general ideas of how to code in general to create readable, maintainable, and extensible code. CLR via C# by Jeffrey Richter - excellent book if you're interested in CLR details and how languages use aspects of it. Threading in C# by Joseph Albahari and C#6.0 in a Nutshell by Joseph and Ben Albahari - great for general knowledge of C# and threading specifics. There are definitely more books worth mentioning. I plan to get around to reading Code Complete by Steven McConnell soon. For me one of the best resources to further my knowledge has been the internet - specifically MSDN. There is a wealth of knowledge to absorb - just don't take everything at face value and do your due diligence with research :thumbsup: I never really had a single book that influenced me. The idea of programming and the challenges involved are what really influenced me.
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Hello Of Course you have read many books but which one had been more influence in your programing? Please tell me the books with field of .net programing or SQL Server or design and architecture. Thank you
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Hello Of Course you have read many books but which one had been more influence in your programing? Please tell me the books with field of .net programing or SQL Server or design and architecture. Thank you
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I have, very occasionally, been running a series called Pete's Book Of The Whatever (PBOTW) where I give a brief view on books that I have found interesting, informative, influential or challenging. Every time I post, I update this blog entry[^] with details and a link back to the original PBOTW.
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Hello Of Course you have read many books but which one had been more influence in your programing? Please tell me the books with field of .net programing or SQL Server or design and architecture. Thank you
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Hello Of Course you have read many books but which one had been more influence in your programing? Please tell me the books with field of .net programing or SQL Server or design and architecture. Thank you
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The first and last one I read from cover to cover was Herb Schildt's Teach Yourself C. That's going back longer than I care to mention - pre-internet days. These days, I find it easier to learn from on-line articles than books. There are some great resources out there on sites like this and SQLServerCentral and I've rarely felt the need to hit the book shop for IT purposes in the last few years. The last decent coding book I bought was John Skeet's C# in Depth which is great but not for the faint-hearted.
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This one: The Computer (Ladybird How It Works Series 654): Amazon.co.uk: David Carey, B.H. Robinson: Books[^] No, seriously. It's a very good overview of what they are (or at least were) and was responsible for my whole decision to enter the field of programming. You can't get more influential than that!
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A very good series of books. I am currently reading [this one](https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ladybird-Book-Hangover-Ladybirds-Grown-Ups/dp/0718183517/ref=pd\_cp\_14\_2?\_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=GYEWFTCP3PGG6WBY9J2D).
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The trouble with that book is that people buy it and don't read it ... so they ask for instructions in QA. :sigh:
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Hello Of Course you have read many books but which one had been more influence in your programing? Please tell me the books with field of .net programing or SQL Server or design and architecture. Thank you
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I think everyone should read Code Complete[^] as a start.
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Works for me! Check your firewall / antivirus / net nazis.
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Hello Of Course you have read many books but which one had been more influence in your programing? Please tell me the books with field of .net programing or SQL Server or design and architecture. Thank you
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The trouble with that book is that people buy it and don't read it ... so they ask for instructions in QA. :sigh:
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OriginalGriff wrote:
The trouble with that book is that people buy it and don't read it ... so they ask for instructions in QA it exists.
FTFY ;) Seriously though, it's pretty bad when SO copy-paste in production code is even a meme. That means it happens way too often :sigh:
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I think everyone should read Code Complete[^] as a start.
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Hello Of Course you have read many books but which one had been more influence in your programing? Please tell me the books with field of .net programing or SQL Server or design and architecture. Thank you
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I'm going to buck the trend, and recommend Donald Knuth's [The Art of Computer Programming](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The\_Art\_of\_Computer\_Programming). IMO, learning a computer language is only the first (and easiest) step. The next step is learning algorithms, data structures etc. No programmer can be considered professional if he does not know something about these areas. [Data Structures and Algorithms](https://www.amazon.com/Data-Structures-Algorithms-Alfred-Aho/dp/0201000237) by Aho, Ullman, and Hopcroft is also a good book.
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Hello Of Course you have read many books but which one had been more influence in your programing? Please tell me the books with field of .net programing or SQL Server or design and architecture. Thank you
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All 3 of the John Robbins debugging books have been hugely helpful and influential for me. (Debugging Applications, Debugging Applications for Microsoft .Net and Microsoft Windows and Debugging Microsoft .Net 2 applications). All 3 though dated in areas, are amazingly useful and should be read start to finish. The amount of time you can save.... I'd also recommend Code Complete. I'd also recommend K & R for C fundamentals. Last but not least the Mark Russinovich Internals books about Windows. Incredibly useful.
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The first and last one I read from cover to cover was Herb Schildt's Teach Yourself C. That's going back longer than I care to mention - pre-internet days. These days, I find it easier to learn from on-line articles than books. There are some great resources out there on sites like this and SQLServerCentral and I've rarely felt the need to hit the book shop for IT purposes in the last few years. The last decent coding book I bought was John Skeet's C# in Depth which is great but not for the faint-hearted.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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Hello Of Course you have read many books but which one had been more influence in your programing? Please tell me the books with field of .net programing or SQL Server or design and architecture. Thank you
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No, I've probably read all of K&R at some point or other but not in a start-at-the-start-finish-at-the-end kind of way. The more I think about this topic, the more I realise that reading time is far, far more rewarding when devoted to the adventures of Jeeves and Wooster than it ever could be when looking at coding manuals.
Slogans aren't solutions.
