Post answers with the author/book pair. Let's keep it language-neutral. Here's the Coding Horror Recommended Reading list Edit: Related Stackoverflow Question What is the Single Most Influential Book Every Programmer Should Read...
I'm an experienced programmer in C/C++, Java and PHP and I've recently become interested in learning ASP.NET. I'm looking for a book geared toward someone who already knows web development (I don't need to relearn HTML and CSS) and programming that will dive into using ASP. Also, a book that teaches ASP development using Visual Studio ...
Preferred Languages : C/C++, Java, and Ruby I am looking for some helpful books/tutorials on how to write your own compiler simply for educational purposes. I am most familiar with C/C++, Java, and Ruby so I prefer resources that involve one of those three, but any good resource is acceptable. ...
If you could go back in time and tell yourself to read a specific book at the beginning of your career as a developer, which book would it be? I expect this list to be varied and to cover a wide range of things. For me, the book would be Code Complete. After reading that book, I was able to get out of the immediate task mindset and begi...
We have just had a graduate join the team with the end aim of assisting out our very busy DBA. He has only a basic SQL knowledge from his degree so we are looking for a really good getting started book preferably based on MS SQL server. Purchase Update: Thanks to the replies we have now purchased Head First SQL to review what he alr...
Are there any favorite online references or good introductory and intermediate/advanced books on this topic that you'd recommend? The backstory is that I'm working on a web development project that is "re-skinning" our existing web site to make it more usable and visually appealing given current technologies that either weren't availabl...
I've really enjoyed Apress Books Practical Projects series. I know that O'Reilly has a Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET book and I have heard of a similar book for Cocoa programming (although I am not sure of its title.) I'd like to know what other books or tutorials stackoverflow users would recommend that walks one through a pr...
I'm looking to teach myself basic hardware architecture; specifically, I'd like to learn x86 assembly for Linux or OSX. What books does this community recommend?...
C# and .NET has become the official programming platform at my company for all new IT projects. I'm a bioinformatics scientist with 15 years of experience with C, C++, and Perl. And, fortunately, I'm not in IT, so I don't have to do my work using C#. But I anticipate having to work on a project with a C# programmer, so it's time for me t...
I've recently been leaning towards the Apress books for my learning needs, though in the past I've used Wrox, Sams and o'reilly amongst others. I know this might just be personal preference but are certain publishers more/less stringent on quality? Do boks from certain publishers have a certain 'feel'? Just curious as I'm a student so b...
I'm a software engineer living vicariously through the Venture Voice podcast and books like Founders at Work. What should I read before I branch out and try to write and sell software on my own? ...
What are the recommended online or offline resources for Objective-C and Cocoa programming? My online resources: O'Reilly, Some useful articles and examples, but has not been updated for quite a while Learning Objective C, This seems like a good resource so far Late Night Cocoa Podcast, I recently discovered this one, starting on epis...
I have been shuffled around at work. Can anyone recommend a quick book/site to get me up to speed on SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services. Additionally; I have the following books available, a quick rating would be handy. Professional SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services by Paul Turley, Todd Bryant, James Counihan and Dave DuVarney...
Well, i've got a nice WPF book its called Sams Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed. I really like to read and learn with it. Are there any other WPF books you could recommend? ...
If you were to be stuck on a desert island (in a sea of cubicles) with 5 CS/Engineering/Programming references - what would they be? Code Complete by Steve McConnell? Design Patterns by the gang of four? The venerable K&R? What are your favorites, and which do you find yourself coming back to most often? No there is not a thread alrea...
Last year I read an article on http://jaortega.wordpress.com/2007/01/31/a-scheme-bookshelf/ that claimed that if you read/study SICP "It will expand your mind. It will cure your diseases", I also read Eric Raymond "The Cathedral and the Bazaar" abou the Lips experience. I tried for a while to use it (I downloaded the SICP pdf and DrSche...
I am working on a server system that going to have a distributed architecture. Can anyone recommend some good (titles|urls|blogs) on programming distributed architectures, P2P, Master/Slave, etc..? It will be implemented in WCF. ...
"TAOCP book is one of the must-reading CS books." I read such a statement so many times but I never see person who read and study over the book. Maybe the book itself makes our job more secure(^^). Have you ever read the book? ...
I would like to try the book question a little bit differently. My goal is to know what the community thinks are the quintessential computer science textbooks. <beginsadstory>I lost all of my computer science and math books from college in Hurricane Katrina in 2005. I greatly miss having my familiar tomes to refer to when topics and p...
What do you think? Any examples welcomed. How about one where the older edition was actually better than a newer edition? ...