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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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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Test the link yourself please I can not redirect.
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Works for me! Check your firewall / antivirus / net nazis.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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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:
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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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 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.
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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.
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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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Terry Pratchett - some good ideas in his books, the tourist in particular had a lot of good items that are actually real now.
Sin tack ear lol Pressing the any key may be continuate
I tried him eons ago and wasn't overly taken with him at the time. He's constantly getting recommended by people with similar tastes to myself, though, so I will give them another go at some point.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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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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Reading the synopses...
The large clear script, the careful choice of words
Doesn't sound like any code I've ever seen*, but this bit did:
The large clear script, the careful choice of wordsthe frequent repetition
Except my own of course ;)
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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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Here is a selection of some of my favourite reads. Joel on Software - Joel Spolsky: Easily one of the best book on software I have ever read. He takes a tour of software development covering every aspect of the industry. Why Software Sucks - David Platt: A brilliant look into the UX / UI of software and why software developers aren't always the best people to design them. Grady Booch - Object-Oriented Design with Applications: The best book on the subject of OOP. I read this from start to finish and never regretted it.
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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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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs | The MIT Press[^] :thumbsup:
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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 most continuously useful for me is probably: NUMERICAL RECIPES IN C: THE ART OF SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING (ISBN 0-521-43108-5) Numerical Recipes - Wikipedia[^]
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