Your technical bookself

SourChipmunk · 27 Feb 2010 at 19:23

dangerstat said:
hackers

Surprised it took that long.

steve-h · 27 Feb 2010 at 19:27

dangerstat said:
hackers

i only got it when you said that

epic film (not really)

Mr^B · 28 Feb 2010 at 21:41

Recently added:

Clean Code
Working effectively with legacy code

MrWhippy · 1 Mar 2010 at 21:06

K&R 5/5 ~ all reference works should be this concise
Stroustrup 3/5 ~ the info is usually in there but finding it...
Numerical Recipes 2/5 ~ probably decent when first published but just not cutting it these days

Dj_Jestar · 1 Mar 2010 at 21:36

Mr^B said:
Recently added:

Clean Code

We've got a copy or two of that in the office. Not read it myself yet, but it gets thumbs up from my colleagues who have.

HumbleCoder · 1 Mar 2010 at 22:16

Dj_Jestar said:
We've got a copy or two of that in the office. Not read it myself yet, but it gets thumbs up from my colleagues who have.

Very heavily Java based though, good read otherwise.

Bob Martin is giving a talk at NxtGenUG Oxford soonish I think if anyone is intersted.

Draeger · 1 Mar 2010 at 22:31

I bought a copy of "Dreamweaver MX for Dummies" once.

NickK · 2 Mar 2010 at 08:02

As I don't program at work now, at home the books on my desk are:
The C++ programming language, Straustrup
Programming in Objective-C
Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X
Beginning iPhone Development
The iPhone developer's cookbook
GPU Gems (GPGPU)
GPU Gems 2 (GPGPU)
A set of product management bits and bobs along with some english books
The computer also has TOGAF in pdf form (all £75 of it!)

On the bookshelf - Design Patterns, Effective C++, Java Programming, UNIX distributed programming, pthreads programming, pragmatic marketing bumpf.

I also have two boxes worth of other books including K&R.

NathanE · 2 Mar 2010 at 22:53

I found Clean Code to be a bit predictable.

Currently I'm digesting RESTful Web Services. The code in it is all useless but the content is good and really gets you in the mindset.

Inquisitor · 3 Mar 2010 at 08:27

HumbleCoder said:
And I have on order Edition 3 of CLR via C# (Richter is one clever guy) and Advanced .NET Debugging by Mario Hewardt

Fantastic book

Dj_Jestar · 3 Mar 2010 at 16:07

NathanE said:
I found Clean Code to be a bit predictable.

Currently I'm digesting RESTful Web Services. The code in it is all useless but the content is good and really gets you in the mindset.

What makes you say the code is useless?

smyth · 4 Mar 2010 at 23:01

I've got Pragmatic Programmer and Clean Code on my bookshelf (floor)

Pretty good books, giving you concepts to think about as you work.

Has anyone read Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) or watched the lectures/ worked through the exercises on the MIT opencourseware site.

The text book is actually online here:
http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html

and the lectures are on youtube and this link:
http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrica...Science/6-001Spring-2005/CourseHome/index.htm