Jacksonville Developers User Group

Bookpool.com polled 62 technical authors, and here's the result. Do you agree?

1) Design Patterns... by Erich Gamma, et al.
2) The Mythical Man Month: Anniversary Edition, by Frederick Brooks, Jr.
3) TCP/IP Illustrated, Vol 1: The Protocols by Richard Stevens
4) Writing Secure Code, 2nd Edition, by Michael Howard, et al.
5) Advanced Programm in the Unix Environment, by Richard Stevens, et al.
6) Code Complete, 2nd Edition by Steve McConnell
7) The C Programming Language, 2nd Edition, by K & R
8) The Art of Computer Programming, by Donald Knuth
9) Effective C++, by Scott Meyers
10) The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL, by Ken Henderson

So now the question is, how many of those do you own/ have read? Items 1 and 6 are in arms reach as I type this now, and I keep meaning to pick up Item 2, but never do.

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The Universe has no center and I am it.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

I have 1 and 6 as well.  Still reading 6.

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Dennis J. Bottjer
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We should get a list together for JaxDUG.  Like drop the UNIX and addin "The Pragmatic Programmer" and "Coder to Developer" and "Developer to Designer".  And if there isnt one, Mike Gunderloy needs to write a "Designer to Architect"

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The Universe has no center and I am it.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

I have 3,4,5, and 7.
The Stevens books are excellent and should remain on the list.  Regardless of your platform, they explain the workings of IP at the nitty gritty level. And even M$ folks use IP, don't they? And it was Bill Gates who said "Windows NT is Unix".

Well, if we are going to talk history, then Levy's "Hackers" should be on there, too.

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The Universe has no center and I am it.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

Dave Cultler who headed up the Development of NT hated UNIX and Windows 3.1 for that matter.  That's part of the reason why NT didn't play so nice with others.  Have you ever read Show Stoppers?  It is a great book and chronicles the development of NT.

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Dennis J. Bottjer
Active iNet Services

Here's a few I like:

Programming Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0 by Dino Esposito

Code Complete by Steve McConnell

Rapid Development by Steve McConnell

Developing Microsoft ASP.NET Server Controls and Components by Nikhil Kothari and Vandana Datye

Professional SQL Server 2000 Programming by Robert Vieira

 

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Dennis J. Bottjer
Active iNet Services

Most of the books are for new development.  That's easy.

What about the ones that help with maintenance and improving the design of existing code?

1. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, Martin Fowler
2. Test-Driven Development, Kent Beck
3. Refactoring to Patterns, Josh Kerievsky

 

 

 

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Corey

Working Effectively with Legacy Code - Robert C. Martin

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The Universe has no center and I am it.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

CoreyG wrote:

2.   Test-Driven Development...

I hear buzzwords...

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There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't

Hmm.  I should have put TDD.  Maybe that would have been a decent disguise.

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Corey

It appears my Haley Joel Osment impression did not catch on.

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There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't

I *see* buzzwords ... maybe. heh.

 

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Corey

I've read 1, 3, 6, and 7 cover to cover. Some people did not like the TCP/IP Illustrated series because they were more references, but I think Stevens (rip) had a talent for explaining things using examples and diagrams.

Furthermore where the protocol layers built on each other Stevens was able to bridge chapters together.

 

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