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I've just stumbled upon this list of best software dev books: 20 Best Software Development Books of All Time - BookAuthority[^] The list is odd, because it actually contains 100 books. All-time best is a questionable title. Check Out The #1 Book That first one (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs JavaScript Edition[^]) is a very old book converted to JavaScript. I'm betting some of you "experienced" devs have read the original (examples were originally in Scheme). That book is from MIT Press and you can see it on their site here[^] and directly from them it costs $75 USD. However, the MIT Press site also gives you links where you can find that book: 1. Barnes & Noble $55 (with free shipping) 2. Penguin Random House : Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman: 9780262543231 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books[
I'm not surprised they have books; I am surprised they listed the title (maybe not). There are various "grocery" stores and "drug" stores (in Canada) that will periodically receive a pile of books and has them at clearance prices. Lots of programing and math at times; other times on home making. This is when you pick up titles out of curiosity because you're not paying $75 or $50.
"Before entering on an understanding, I have meditated for a long time, and have foreseen what might happen. It is not genius which reveals to me suddenly, secretly, what I have to say or to do in a circumstance unexpected by other people; it is reflection, it is meditation." - Napoleon I
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In my opinion, the best software development book is the one that tells you what you need to know at that moment.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
I have to say, maybe not for the better :~ but I've largely given up programming books in favor of just googling what I need. Chances are if I can't find it via hunting on the Internet, I won't find a book with what I need either. X|
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
the best software development book is the one that tells you what you need to know at that moment.
I absolutely 100% agree. Once you've been doing dev work for a few years this truth comes through like thunder! :-D
I accidentally clicked on your profile link and saw one of those iMacs as your profile picture. I find that way more funny than I probably have any right to. Such silly looking machines. When Himself worked helldesk in college he used to joke that he had a paperclip for rebooting the imacs and an icepick for rebooting their users. He's pretty terrible but I love him.
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I accidentally clicked on your profile link and saw one of those iMacs as your profile picture. I find that way more funny than I probably have any right to. Such silly looking machines. When Himself worked helldesk in college he used to joke that he had a paperclip for rebooting the imacs and an icepick for rebooting their users. He's pretty terrible but I love him.
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honey the codewitch wrote:
one of those iMacs
Late last century, my daughter had a pink one of them to do all the pretty molecular pics for her Chem major. Lovely WYSIWYG stuff, until you come to try and print. :mad::mad::mad: She took it to the UK in 2000 when she went to do her PhD. No idea where it wound up.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
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honey the codewitch wrote:
one of those iMacs
Late last century, my daughter had a pink one of them to do all the pretty molecular pics for her Chem major. Lovely WYSIWYG stuff, until you come to try and print. :mad::mad::mad: She took it to the UK in 2000 when she went to do her PhD. No idea where it wound up.
Software rusts. Simon Stephenson, ca 1994. So does this signature. me, 2012
Maybe it has been repurposed as a fish tank or something useful. :-D
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In my opinion, the best software development book is the one that tells you what you need to know at that moment.
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
best software development book is the one that tells you what you need to know at that moment
That book has another name: Experience.
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I've just stumbled upon this list of best software dev books: 20 Best Software Development Books of All Time - BookAuthority[^] The list is odd, because it actually contains 100 books. All-time best is a questionable title. Check Out The #1 Book That first one (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs JavaScript Edition[^]) is a very old book converted to JavaScript. I'm betting some of you "experienced" devs have read the original (examples were originally in Scheme). That book is from MIT Press and you can see it on their site here[^] and directly from them it costs $75 USD. However, the MIT Press site also gives you links where you can find that book: 1. Barnes & Noble $55 (with free shipping) 2. Penguin Random House : Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman: 9780262543231 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books[
I found only one of the books that I consider "best". The Pragmatic programmer. For me the best programming books I have read so far 1. The Pragmatic Programmer: Helped me learn the approach I should have. 2. The Art of Computer Programming: Helped me learn the tools and techniques needed to solve programming problems effectively. 3. CLR via C#: Helps me understand how .Net works under the hood. 4. C# in Depth: Helped me develop the fundamentals of the C# programming language. For everything else I use the internet.
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
best software development book is the one that tells you what you need to know at that moment
That book has another name: Experience.
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I've just stumbled upon this list of best software dev books: 20 Best Software Development Books of All Time - BookAuthority[^] The list is odd, because it actually contains 100 books. All-time best is a questionable title. Check Out The #1 Book That first one (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs JavaScript Edition[^]) is a very old book converted to JavaScript. I'm betting some of you "experienced" devs have read the original (examples were originally in Scheme). That book is from MIT Press and you can see it on their site here[^] and directly from them it costs $75 USD. However, the MIT Press site also gives you links where you can find that book: 1. Barnes & Noble $55 (with free shipping) 2. Penguin Random House : Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman: 9780262543231 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books[
raddevus wrote:
best software dev books:
As based on some list of people. Yet it does not have the Dragon book nor the GoF book. Both of those are known by those names rather than the titles. Far as I know no others are. So it certainly suggests those are important.
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I found only one of the books that I consider "best". The Pragmatic programmer. For me the best programming books I have read so far 1. The Pragmatic Programmer: Helped me learn the approach I should have. 2. The Art of Computer Programming: Helped me learn the tools and techniques needed to solve programming problems effectively. 3. CLR via C#: Helps me understand how .Net works under the hood. 4. C# in Depth: Helped me develop the fundamentals of the C# programming language. For everything else I use the internet.
Wow! Those last three are really difficult ones. I wish I could finish any one of those three. I've dipped into them, but never finished. There are two others on which rightfully deserver to be there: 1. Modern Software Engineering[^] by Farley I honestly believe that this one is fantastic and will stay on top lists for many years to come. I read it twice and am planning on reading it again. 2. The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, 2nd ed[^] by Petzold I read the originally version (released in 2000) and have been reading this new 2nd ed. and it is absolutely the best pairing of hardware/ software knowledge ever. It's readable, contains some history to lock things together and explains computers in a way that really no one else has ever done. The 2nd ed. has a web site[^] that has interactive circuits to help explain how things work. Very cool.
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Wow! Those last three are really difficult ones. I wish I could finish any one of those three. I've dipped into them, but never finished. There are two others on which rightfully deserver to be there: 1. Modern Software Engineering[^] by Farley I honestly believe that this one is fantastic and will stay on top lists for many years to come. I read it twice and am planning on reading it again. 2. The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, 2nd ed[^] by Petzold I read the originally version (released in 2000) and have been reading this new 2nd ed. and it is absolutely the best pairing of hardware/ software knowledge ever. It's readable, contains some history to lock things together and explains computers in a way that really no one else has ever done. The 2nd ed. has a web site[^] that has interactive circuits to help explain how things work. Very cool.
