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 most continuously useful for me is probably: NUMERICAL RECIPES IN C: THE ART OF SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING (ISBN 0-521-43108-5) Numerical Recipes - Wikipedia[^]
Peter Wasser "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
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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.
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K&R is really a great book. It is even currently ranked #4 at amazon in Programming Languages section - Amazon Best Sellers: Best Computer Programming Languages[^] which is absolutely amazing considering how old that book is. Also, think about how simple the book is. It just steps through these little programs building the readers knowledge with each page. The programs are so simple really but do some really interesting things. Of course it is all console based so that is interesting too,because the authors didn't have to worry about teaching UI type of layers. Disclaimer : It may sound as if I'm saying the book isn't good, I'm not. However, it is interesting that a book written like that these days might not be accepted since a lot of readers would complain about all the "missing" parts. :)
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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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[Vital Dust](https://www.amazon.com/Vital-Dust-Origin-Evolution-Earth/dp/0465090451) In my late 20's, this book, having nothing to do with programming, completely changed my thinking about how programming should be done. For the better, IMO. Marc
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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[^]
Peter Wasser "The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts." - Bertrand Russell
:thumbsup:, if your work involves lots of numerical stuff.
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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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Not sure if it counts but it was indispensable for a long time. The Microsoft C 5.1 Language Reference. It was in a 3 ring binder that allowed the pages to lay flat and stay on the page you were using. I lost it in a job change somehow, I still miss it.
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K&R is really a great book. It is even currently ranked #4 at amazon in Programming Languages section - Amazon Best Sellers: Best Computer Programming Languages[^] which is absolutely amazing considering how old that book is. Also, think about how simple the book is. It just steps through these little programs building the readers knowledge with each page. The programs are so simple really but do some really interesting things. Of course it is all console based so that is interesting too,because the authors didn't have to worry about teaching UI type of layers. Disclaimer : It may sound as if I'm saying the book isn't good, I'm not. However, it is interesting that a book written like that these days might not be accepted since a lot of readers would complain about all the "missing" parts. :)
I think it was much easier to structure a book in those days because there was a simple entry point at "Hello World" which could be dealt with in the first couple of pages and things could build slowly and steadily from that. Modern development environments don't really lend themselves to that approach. Make a new partition, install this VM, install that VM, kick your machine around the room, wipe it clean, reinstall everything, swear a lot, get this plug-in, get that plug-in, figure out some license agreement written in gibberish, get the plug-in you missed, swear some more, 'phone your brother because he's never seen a train crash ... before you know it, you're on chapter 96 without a single line of code having been written. That's not to take anything away from the mighty K&R - quite possibly the best pair of developers who ever lived and pretty darned good at explaining it, too.
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I think it was much easier to structure a book in those days because there was a simple entry point at "Hello World" which could be dealt with in the first couple of pages and things could build slowly and steadily from that. Modern development environments don't really lend themselves to that approach. Make a new partition, install this VM, install that VM, kick your machine around the room, wipe it clean, reinstall everything, swear a lot, get this plug-in, get that plug-in, figure out some license agreement written in gibberish, get the plug-in you missed, swear some more, 'phone your brother because he's never seen a train crash ... before you know it, you're on chapter 96 without a single line of code having been written. That's not to take anything away from the mighty K&R - quite possibly the best pair of developers who ever lived and pretty darned good at explaining it, too.
Slogans aren't solutions.
I agree 100%. While developing my iphone/iPad app I had to install some CocoaPods thing that was simply entirely magic to me. 1. Go to terminal 2. type in command to pull libraries 3. hope 4. try to build... if anything fails along the way, you don't know if it is a script that pulls the library or what. We program from _mystery_ these days and have left _mastery_ behind. :)
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I agree 100%. While developing my iphone/iPad app I had to install some CocoaPods thing that was simply entirely magic to me. 1. Go to terminal 2. type in command to pull libraries 3. hope 4. try to build... if anything fails along the way, you don't know if it is a script that pulls the library or what. We program from _mystery_ these days and have left _mastery_ behind. :)
raddevus wrote:
We program from _mystery_ these days and have left _mastery_ behind. :)
That says it perfectly!
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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Not programming, per se, but had a big impact when I first read it: The Mythical Man-Month, Anniversary Edition: Essays On Software Engineering 2, Frederick P. Brooks Jr., eBook - Amazon.com[^] and, of course, the wonderful Code Complete (Microsoft Programming): Steve McConnell: 9781556154843: Amazon.com: Books[^] and a book called "Evolutionary Systems Design". That might not be correct as I can't find it on Amazon so it might be out of print or the name slightly wrong.
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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](https://www.amazon.com/Code-Complete-Practical-Handbook-Construction/dp/0735619670/ref=sr\_1\_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1484241066&sr=1-1&keywords=Code+Complete) is one book every programmer should be forced to read.
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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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It's hard to narrow one down, but I have two books that I think the authors did an outstanding job on... Win32 Programming[^] I know back in this day, Petzold was pretty popular, but this book covered a LOT of non-MFC, lower level goodness, and dealign with the API directly. It helped my GDI programming out a lot. These guys know their stuff. Assembly Language Step-by-Step[^] Jeff has a way of writing this book that explains rather than assumes. First time I ever read something that made assembly digestible. There's a new version of the book that's Linux centric; however, the original version covers DOS. And yeah, they aren't related to .NET, but I'm getting up there in years. So, I got older stuff to recommend.
Jeremy Falcon
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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 C programming language K&R Profound influence
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