One of the best books for software developers has been updated. Code Complete2 was just released http://www.cc2e.com and can be found on p2p networks already! The author Steve McConnell suggests the following reading list for software developers. I haven't read a few of the books on this list but the rest are pretty good books and should be part of any developers permanent library.

http://www.construx.com/professionaldev/in...s/sampledev.php

level 10
Code Complete 2, Steve McConnell
Programming Pearls 2nd Edition, Jon Bentley
Applying UML & Patterns 2nd Ed, Craig Larman
Conceptual Blockbusting, James Adams
Software Creativity, Robert Glass
Rapid Development, Steve McConnell
Software Project Survival Guide, Steve McConnell
UML Distilled, Martin Fowler et all


level 11
Writing Solid Code, Steve Maquire
Software Implementation, Michael Marcotty
More Programming Pearls, John Bentley
The Art of Software Testing, Glenford Myers
Mastering the Requirements Process, Robertson and Robertson
Software Requirements, Karl Wiegers
"Manager's Handbook for Software Development", NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Antipatterns and Patterns in Software Configuration Management, William Brown et all

level 12
Design Patterns, Erich Gamma et all
Object Oriented Software Construction, Bertrand Meyer
Object Oriented Analysis and Design, Grady Booch
Software Architecture in Practice, Bass et all
"Software Measurement Guidebook", NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

Does anyone have any suggested additions or modifications to this reading list?

Three additional books I recommend:

1) Pragmatic Programmer: from journeyman to master, andrew hunt & david thomas
2) career programmer: guerilla tactics for an imperfect world, christopher duncan
3) effective oracle by design: thomas kyte


This post has been edited by jsm: Jul 16 2004, 04:26 PM

Not sure should I be mentioning Technical books here.

I would recommend Programming Windows (MS Press) by Charles Petzold for C++ windows programming and Debugging Application (MS Press) by John Robbins for learning a proper debugging technique.
For learning C++, check out Bjourne Stroustrop C++ books. (Bjourne Stroustrop is the designer and inventor of the C++ language who still alive)

Does anybody else have any recommendations for non-technical books that are related to software development or the IT industry that they think merit being on reading-list?

So is this the book that Afdlin Shauki use to carry around in his recent BULI film

his character is a programmer for MICHEALSoft...

always wondering what book is that...

C++ In Action, Bartosz Milewski
More Effective C++, Scott Meyers
The C++ Standard Library - A Tutorial and Reference, Nicolai Josuttis
The C Language 2nd Edition - K&R
Advanced Windows Programming - J. Ritcher
Modern C++ Design - Andrei Alexandrescu
Common Lisp: A Gentle Intro to Symbolic Computation - David Touretzski
ANSI Common Lisp - Paul Graham

Well, I copy this from CodeProject.
It is a great list though.


Programming Discipline and Design
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Writing Solid Code - Steve Maguire
Mythical Man-Month - Frederick P. Brooks Jr
Code Complete - Steve McConnell
The Art of programming - Knuth
Algorithms - Robert Sedgewick
Debugging Applications - John Robbins
Taligent's Guide to Designing Programs - Taligent
Design Patterns - Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides
The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactices for an Imperfect World (Apress) - Christoper Duncan

C / C++
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The C Programming Language (Prentice Hall) - Kernigan and Ritchie
The C++ Programming Language - Bjarne Stroustroup
Effective and More Effective C++ - Scott Meyers
Inside Visual C++ - David J. Kruglinski
C++ How to Program - H. M. Deitel, P. J. Deitel
Thinking in C++ (2nd Ed) - Bruce Eckel

C#
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A Programmer's Introduction to C#, 2nd edition (Apress) - Eric Gunnerson
Inside C#, 2nd edition (Microsoft Press) - Tom Archer
Component-Based Development with Visual C# (M&T books) - Ted Faison
C# Essentials, 2nd edition (O'Reilly) - Ben Albahari, Peter Drayton & Brad Merrill

ASP.NET
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Debugging ASP.NET (New Riders) - Jonathon Goodyear, Brian Peek, Brad Fox
Designing Microsoft ASP.NET Applications (Microsoft Press) - Jonathon Goodyear, Brian Peek, Brad Fox
Debugging ASP.NET - Jonathon Goodyear, Brian Peek, Brad Fox
Microsoft ASP.NET Step by Step (Microsoft Press) - G. Andrew Duthrie
Depploying and Managing Microsoft .NET Web Farms (Sams) - Barry Bloom

Windows API
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Programming Windows 95 - Charles Petzold and Paul Yao
Programming Applications for Windows - Jeffrey Richter
Advanced Windows - Jeffrey Richter
Visual C++ Windows Shell Programming - Dino Esposito

MFC
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Programming Windows 95 with MFC - Jeff Prosise
MFC Internals - George Shepherd and Scot Wingo
Professional MFC with Visual C++ - Mike Blaszczak

ASP
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Professional ASP Techniques for Webmasters - Alex Homer

CE
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Windows CE Developers Handbook - Terence A. Goggin
Programming Windows CE - Douglas Boling (Microsoft Press)
Essential Windows CE Application Programming -Robert Burd*** (Wiley)

COM / DCOM / COM+ / ATL
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Essential COM - Don Box
Professional COM Applications with ATL - Sing Li and Panos Economopoulos
Creating Lightweight Components with ATL - Jonathan Bates
Inside ALT - George Shepherd and Brad King
Understanding DCOM - William Rubin and Marshall Brain
Programming Distributed Applications with COM and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 - Ted Pattison

How about...
Database Systems, 3rd Edition
Thomas Connolly and Carolyn Begg
http://cwx.prenhall.com/bookbind/pubbooks/...er0/deluxe.html

Though not really software (programming) related but I always feel that having a good grasp in database is important in software development nowadays as almost all software use database extensively, except gaming to some extent though.

It is also good if we intend to sell our Malaysia-made software (database based most of the time, I presume) as a world class solution.

Cheers.

Read on some book on Programming practice like Extreme Programming (XP), it is a deliberate and disciplined approach to software development.
Read on Extreme Programming

correct me if i m wrong. i hav tried extreme programming, but in my opinion is not that practical. May be i still cant fully understand the concept.!

Every programmer should read Donald Knuth - The Art Of Programming. Period.

Extreme Programming: A gentle introduction.

http://www.extremeprogramming.org/index.html

How to Design Programs
An Introduction to Computing and Programming

http://www.htdp.org/2003-09-26/Book/

http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/

http://www.unix.org.ua/orelly/

wanna ask ....
what programming language shall i learn
i have a bit knowledge in C
which programming language i shall study deep in ???

http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.html

http://www.stpmag.com/

Software Test & Performance - back issues available for your free reading.