What's a good intro database book for non-technical people? We have a user who will be managing some data and also be making some ad hoc queries. This person is our "subject matter expert" and won't be designing the schema, but we want her to be able to understand more or less what we're doing and how to experiment with making queries ...
I'm looking for a best of breed book which will help me to get started with professional Mac development. I would expect that professional development is done with Cocoa, Objective C and/or XCode. But it needs to be a single excellent book for a professional coder who is new to Mac development. ...
I've got lots of technical books-- 'bricks' I call them since most of them are in the 700 page range. I love these tech books and I can generally read those 700 pages much quicker than I can a novel of the same length. Go figure… However, as much as I love them, it seems their shelf-life is getting shorter all the time and I find myse...
I'm fairly new to C++ sockets. Is there a book for beginners for C++ socket programming? for windows i really need help ive been through alot of tutorials dont get any of it and im using dev-C++ ...
This post was inspired partly by two programming books I read recently and partly by Jon Skeet's advice on answering technical questions helpfully. Most of the stackoverflow questions on learning resources (books, blogs etc.) are along the lines of "Where can I find a [resource x] on [subject y]?" I'd like to turn this around and ask, ...
Hi All, I need to learn VB.net in Visual Studio 2005 Express for my job. I'm not that good or experienced of a programmer. I've done Basic and Pascal in school. I played with assembly language programming a Motorola HC08 processor a little. For the past 2 years I have done some involved things in Access using VBA. At work we have an o...
Hi, I am pretty much a beginner java programmer. do you think the book Java Puzzlers is a good read for learning and inspiration?. Any other books you recommend for java beginners would be great. ...
While pondering my reference library. Some books served to comprehensively define a previously invisible topic, and are still so dominant in their subject that they can serve as canonical. Three I can think of are K & R's White Book, Refactoring by Martin Fowler, and Design Patterns by the Gang of Four. What other books fall into the ca...
So, I need a book (I know the API-docs, but I like books I can hold on my hand and take on the bus, etc.) for ActionScript 3.0 - I already know a plethora of programming languages so no problem there, but all the books I seem to find for ActionScript 3.0 are of the sort "teach yourself ActionScript 3.0 in 24 hours" and they all begin wit...
I'm in the beginning of a new project based on SWT (it is an Eclipse RCP project). I've got a previous experience in swing but i don't know if it helps learning SWT. However, i would like to know the best book for learning SWT; i've seen different books but they are quite old (SWT in action was published on 2004). Are they still worth re...
I'm working my way through Pro C# 2008 (Troelsen) and am thinking about what to read next. Over the past few weeks, I've accumulated this list of possibilities: C# 3.0 Design Patterns (Bishop) Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Fowler) Domain-Driven Design (Evans) Code Complete 2nd edition (McConnell) The Pragmatic Progr...
I will soon start writing a book on a certain subset of algorithms. Many people, including myself, praise The Art of Computer Programming to the top of their lungs, believing these volumes are a work of art in mathematics and computer science. However, I can't put my finger on what it is that makes TAOCP mythically great, mostly when com...
Hi, I am a C# developer, but I was asked to join a Java project for some time. What are the best resources (books, web pages, etc.) to quickly learn Java? Ideally I don't want to read the basics of OO programming, garbage collection, etc., just concentrate on the things that are different in Java. I know there are some good books the o...
I will soon be taking a long overdue vacation. Under duress, I have had to promise that I won't take my laptop. Any recommendation for good technical books given that, I won't have access to a computer (won't be able to run through code samples, etc., so no point in taking my copy of 'WPF Unleashed' ) Have to carry the book around Th...
Duplicate of this question. What book(s) best complement "C# In Depth"? ie provide a comprehensive introductory treatment that dovetails with the more advanced text? EDIT: Note that this question is not intended to sound glib as in "What book will make me an expert". The intent is to ask to which book would best complement the speci...
Throughout the book "Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#" by Robert C. Martin a small Paymentroll application is build. While most of the source code is printed in place, some classes are missing and some are incomplete. The book says on the firest page: The book includes many source code examples that are also availabl...
I'm looking for something of the quality of our friend Jon Skeet's C# in depth book, but about Python. Please leave any recommendations you have for Python books that do not cover basic programming constructs. ...
I'm looking for an Expression Blend 2 book that includes best-practices (Expression Blend 2/Visual Studio 2008) designer perspective (Expression Blend 2) programmer perspective (interoperability with Visual Studio 2008) How-To-chapters for Windows Forms developers (how to solve the same problem with WPF) Could you make a recommendat...
Duplicate of: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/161288/what-would-be-the-best-book-to-read-in-order-to-really-grok-oop/161504 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/574001/what-books-do-you-suggest-for-understanding-object-oriented-programming-design-de/574619 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/455627/head-first-style-data-structures-alg...
I am trying to compile a good library [within a company] on software design and architecture. I have looked at few posts on Stack Overflow, assuming this sort of question is very popular, however the best I found was Best books to learn about design, and it talks about graphic design, which is NOT particularly helpful to me. We are de...