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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.
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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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Best response!
Software Zen: delete this;
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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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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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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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raddevus wrote: I've dipped into them, but never finished.
I don't know anyone who has. I have gone through them, and I can say that you keep the interesting bits with you and revisit for something more from time to time.
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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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Sander Rossel wrote: And I was looking at this All of us do
Happiness will never come to those who fail to appreciate what they already have. -Anon
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -Frederick Nietzsche
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Ok, I have had my coffee, so you can all come out now!
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I thought it was a Jackson Pollock
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And my IoT UI/User Experience library here:
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modified 22-Nov-23 11:05am.
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I think you're right. It's an AI transcoding of radio frequency noise from Jupiter interpreted as a single image which coincidentally resembles sheet music written by Jackson Pollock as a teenager, prescient of the rock & roll era.
Software Zen: delete this;
modified 23-Nov-23 11:00am.
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Mike Hankey wrote: I recognize that piece, it's a Sonata in E-Minor for the Comb Kazoo. Who is the composer? Looks like it could be P. D. Q. Bach, but I am unable to find in in the Shickele catalog.
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