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Vital Dust
In my late 20's, this book, having nothing to do with programming, completely changed my thinking about how programming should be done. For the better, IMO.
Marc
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See my signature (bottom two) 
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Not sure if it counts but it was indispensable for a long time.
The Microsoft C 5.1 Language Reference. It was in a 3 ring binder that allowed the pages to lay flat and stay on the page you were using. I lost it in a job change somehow, I still miss it.
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This is one book every programmer should be forced to read.
If it's not broken, fix it until it is.
Everything makes sense in someone's mind.
Ya can't fix stupid.
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It's hard to narrow one down, but I have two books that I think the authors did an outstanding job on...
Win32 Programming[^]
I know back in this day, Petzold was pretty popular, but this book covered a LOT of non-MFC, lower level goodness, and dealign with the API directly. It helped my GDI programming out a lot. These guys know their stuff.
Assembly Language Step-by-Step[^]
Jeff has a way of writing this book that explains rather than assumes. First time I ever read something that made assembly digestible. There's a new version of the book that's Linux centric; however, the original version covers DOS.
And yeah, they aren't related to .NET, but I'm getting up there in years. So, I got older stuff to recommend.
Jeremy Falcon
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The C programming language K&R
Profound influence
New version: WinHeist Version 2.2.2 Beta I told my psychiatrist that I was hearing voices in my head. He said you don't have a psychiatrist!
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Team sat confused between directions from respected leader. (9)
Please solve this one. It takes me hours to come up with one.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
modified 12-Jan-17 4:23am.
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Statesman
Anagram of team sat surrounded by South and North
We can’t stop here, this is bat country - Hunter S Thompson RIP
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We have a winner! ![Beer | [beer]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif)
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
modified 12-Jan-17 4:23am.
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Yep, way too early for me!
Slogans aren't solutions.
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It was a good one though!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Indeed.
Slogans aren't solutions.
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I would have mentioned beloved leader in the clue. But then people would have complained that Kim is not 9 letters.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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Ah, but KimJungIl is! 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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... when you turn on the cold tap, and the water is hotter than the hot tap.
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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So ... what you're saying is that in Australia, even the water is trying to kill you? 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Its a miracle anyone in this country makes it to adulthood.
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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In the south of France I have to insulate the cold pipes in the house for that reason.
You've got it hot there havent you? 40C I heard. Yeah, thats nasty, especially in a timber built house.
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We're lucky enough to be close enough to the mains, so it only takes about 15 seconds for the hot water to be flushed through.
Cheers,
Mick
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It doesn't matter how often or hard you fall on your arse, eventually you'll roll over and land on your feet.
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Ahh Queensland,
one thing I don't miss is the clouds.
No not the fluffy white or even huge grey - black ones, but the purple ones that you know are going to throw golf - baseball sized hail at your car if you don't get under cover soon enough.
Sin tack ear lol
Pressing the any key may be continuate
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Hence the necessity for ![Beer | [beer]](https://codeproject.freetls.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/beer.gif) .
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
"I don't drink any more... then again, I don't drink any less." - Mike Mullikins uncle
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So that's why it's so bloody cold in England!!
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Oz certainly has its hot moments. My daughter lives in Melbourne and my wife and I used to go every year to see the grandkids. (Now they've both turned 16, they wouldn't be seen dead with old farts like us.) One year we were there, it broke the temperature record and reached 41degC, the following year it went higher still to 43degC, but the piece de resistance was a couple or three years later when it reached 46degC, which is still the record I think. We were going to the cinema 3 times a day for the four days it was over 40degC. There aren't half some rubbish films about!
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