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The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) 51 reviews
Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999
Great Book!!!
+ Destined to Become a Classic
+ excellent book
This book is perfect for any computer engineer who wants to get more information about programming.
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Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective (Effective Software Development Series)18 reviews
Diomidis Spinellis
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003
Five stars for beginners, much less for seasoned programmers
+ Works best if you have the matching skill sets of the material...
While I have absolutely no doubt that the contents of this book are extremely valuable to developers, it is difficult for me to believe that seasoned programmers would need to read it. In fact, if they are in need of this knowledge, then I truly question their competence.
For example, chapter ...
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Implementation Patterns (Addison-Wesley Signature Series) 22 reviews
Kent Beck
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007
This time Beck talks about patterns "in the small"
+ Principles for Maintainable Code
+ A mandatory reading for all software developer
I typically enjoy reading pattern's books and this is going to be one of my all-time favorites. This time Beck talks about patterns "in the small", not the traditional kind of architectural patterns we are used to know. This book it's about those small decisions we make every time we write even a ...
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Programming Pearls (2nd Edition) (ACM Press) 33 reviews
Jon Bentley
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999
Utterly essential to read and re-read
+ Good book
+ Must read
+ true pearls of programming wisdom
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Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction 100 reviews
Steve McConnell
Microsoft Press, 2004
Invaluable, Well Presented Information
+ Code Complete Review
+ good book
+ Best of the Best
+ An Important Read
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Software Exorcism: A Handbook for Debugging and Optimizing Legacy Code (Expert's Voice)2 reviews
Reverend Bill Blunden
Apress, 2003
An Inmate's View of Life in an IT Dungeon
+ This one is REALLY good
Software Exorcism is a mind-dump by an experienced maintenance programmer. Bill Blunden lists all the horrendous coding techniques he's come across in commercial software, while offering detailed tips on debugging and optimizing code. The very useful code examples are written in C++, C or assembly ...
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)139 reviews
Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, ...
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999
Must have in any developers collection
+ Good resource for teaching
+ Refactoring
+ An Easy Read - Lots of Great Info - Must for New Programmers
+ A must read for any serious developer.
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Code Complete (Microsoft Programming)149 reviews
Steve McConnell
Microsoft Press, 1993
The classic text for improving software construction
+ My Favorite Programming Book
+ Every beginning programmer should own this
+ Absolutely necessary for any software developer or manager
+ A programming book that's actually fun to read cover to cover
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Code Craft: The Practice of Writing Excellent Code12 reviews
Pete Goodliffe
No Starch Press, 2006
A great book for a beginning pragmatic programmer
+ Become A Better Developer With Code Craft
+ Code Complete
This one is a very good book. It is essentially a book in natural philosophy, not quite "scientific", coming from observation to show you a little bit of everything. An insight to the entire world of programming if you like.
It goes from bottom up, from coding style through techniques and tools ...
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Code Quality: The Open Source Perspective (Effective Software Development Series)3 reviews
Diomidis Spinellis
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2006
Spinellis: The Anti-Kernighan
+ Important information, but it's not an easy read...
First of all, this author is a serious academic. The book is worth reading and probably will be for a long time to come. It's also a fine production typesetting-wise. The previous review's complain about copy-editing errors in the book is really missing the point, because those could be easily ...
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Hacker's Delight14 reviews
Henry S. Warren
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2002
Absolute essential
+ Bit-banger's delight. More fun than a barrel of monkeys.
+ This is a fantastic book!
+ Fun, interesting and useful
+ A rich resource for low-level arithmetic tricks
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Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))34 reviews
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007
Not for the faint hearted
I like this book but it is a flawed thing.
Worth the read but not convinced it is worth the cost.
I started more than half the chapters and skipped on because either it was too obtuse or specific to a given language/problem or too general to be useful.
However there are also some great ...
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Refactoring Workbook (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)6 reviews
William C. Wake
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003
Improving code is key to building a quality enterprise
+ Good exercises in refactoring
+ Makes Refactoring Real
+ Required reading to get effective at refactoring
+ An ideal companion to Martin Fowler Refactoring book
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Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Robert C. Martin Series)23 reviews
Michael Feathers
Prentice Hall PTR, 2004
Pleasant to read and extremely practical.
+ Most of this is 'duh' but good to have in writing
+ Good at what it says
+ Bad Title; Great Book
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Code Craft: The Practice of Writing Excellent Code12 reviews
Pete Goodliffe
No Starch Press, 2006
A great book for a beginning pragmatic programmer
+ Become A Better Developer With Code Craft
+ Code Complete
This one is a very good book. It is essentially a book in natural philosophy, not quite "scientific", coming from observation to show you a little bit of everything. An insight to the entire world of programming if you like.
It goes from bottom up, from coding style through techniques and tools ...
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Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O'Reilly))34 reviews
O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007
Not for the faint hearted
I like this book but it is a flawed thing.
Worth the read but not convinced it is worth the cost.
I started more than half the chapters and skipped on because either it was too obtuse or specific to a given language/problem or too general to be useful.
However there are also some great ...
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Programming Pearls (2nd Edition) (ACM Press)33 reviews
Jon Bentley
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999
Utterly essential to read and re-read
+ Good book
+ Must read
+ true pearls of programming wisdom
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Hacker's Delight14 reviews
Henry S. Warren
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2002
Absolute essential
+ Bit-banger's delight. More fun than a barrel of monkeys.
+ This is a fantastic book!
+ Fun, interesting and useful
+ A rich resource for low-level arithmetic tricks
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)139 reviews
Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, ...
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999
Must have in any developers collection
+ Good resource for teaching
+ Refactoring
+ An Easy Read - Lots of Great Info - Must for New Programmers
+ A must read for any serious developer.
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Implementation Patterns (Addison-Wesley Signature Series)22 reviews
Kent Beck
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007
This time Beck talks about patterns "in the small"
+ Principles for Maintainable Code
+ A mandatory reading for all software developer
I typically enjoy reading pattern's books and this is going to be one of my all-time favorites. This time Beck talks about patterns "in the small", not the traditional kind of architectural patterns we are used to know. This book it's about those small decisions we make every time we write even a ...
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