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.

The C/C++ Journal Essential C/C++ Reading List

If you are serious about C and C++, here is the CUJ recommended reading list.
http://www.cuj.com/corner/read.htm


Best Regards,
Yeoh

so which i can start first as a beginner for developers world....to know what is programming is?????

my favourite reading (more to enterprise applications) ...

Design Patterns
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
Domain Driven Design
Expert One-on-One J2EE Design and Development
Refactoring To Patterns

This post has been edited by T+1: Oct 6 2006, 12:11 AM

Above all skills and knowledge, I still think passion and humble attitude beats all. Skill and experience could be gained, but if you don't have the later (I also dunno what could be done about you). Of course, you must have the minimum programming foundation.

Anyway, some recommended readings
- C/C++ by Deitel or Bjourne Stroustrup (for a solid foundation in programming)
- Haven't really found a good .NET or Java book, but the Internet is always a good resource (to get a job)
- PHP - don't need a book as he help file is already very helpful (for hobby and pet project)
- Design Patterns (to make you a better programmer)
- Google (programmer's best friend).

BTW, my company is looking for .NET/Java Developer (good talent are such a hard find nowadays). As long are you feel interested and wanted to take up the challenge, visit:http://siva-my.jobstreet.com/_ads/my/jobs/2006/11/default/10/352285.htm

could anyone recommend me a good php/mysql books that i could buy from our local store?
i got some basic in c,c++,vb and html.
search a few webby, but i still think book will be better for me.

Apress - Beginning PHP and MySQL 5 From Novice to Professional

If you want to learn PHP 5 (Object Oriented) then...

Apress - PHP 5 Recipes - A problem Solution Approach

im want to use easyphp 2.0
so i will need php 5 & mysql 5

is this book have php 5?
if yes, then where could i buy it?
mid valley book store (forgot the name )?

Well depend on the market right now. From what i know, .NET and Java are the high rating job vacancy for software development.

do anybody know oracle e-book ?
tks.

When I was assigned a task to use the Yahoo! User Interface libraries, YUI library, my perspective and knowledge of Javascript shifted for the better. For the first time in my life I know Javascript. For the first time in my life, I can program well in Javascript. Read these well written articles about Javascript and his YUI's blog comments and you get what I mean. Personally, this is my "Thinking Javascript".

http://javascript.crockford.com/

This post has been edited by sunsuron: Jun 14 2007, 05:26 PM

Doesn't it also relate to AJAX more or less? Instead of just Javascript.

For the YUI part, yes. It is more to AJAX. If my earlier statements lead you in the wrong direction, my bad. My original intention was for web developer out there to be aware that there has been so many improvement into the way we should write our JavaScript. It is important to be aware of the latest trends - unobtrusive scripts. It is important to know what methods are deprecated and what replaced them currently. The website I gave explains basic fundamentals about how the right way we should think JavaScript. If we do not have this idea in the first place, it is going to be hard. YUI is an advanced library that uses these fundamentals and it is a huge bonus if anyone can grasp it earlier. Not only YUI but other libraries too such as Prototype, Dojo, JQuery etc. No more we should look JavaScript as a script for kids. Take a look at http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2007/07/11/...-is-too-simple/ to see the evolution.

C is good for foundation of other language.

Try out Java programming language. I am sure you will like it.

-what book is the best for building website using java?for intimidate
-book that really suitable for building web using flash?for beginner

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Added on October 8, 2007, 3:57 ammy friend recommend asp for developing website...
any book n website that suitable for beginner....

This post has been edited by fanco: Oct 8 2007, 03:57 AM

The must-read for Java programmers is "Joshua Bloch's Effective Java".

If you are an integrator, do not miss out the Enterprise Integration Patterns.

plenty of ebooks here

Oreily Head First Design Patterns, is a fun book to read.
finished reading it in 1and a 1/2 month, now is time to apply it.
Reccomend to read it anyway, gives u better vision on what OO can do rather than remember all the huge term like polymorphism, inheritance, composition, bla bla bla...

I Have 10 GB of various I.T E-Book!!!

Maybe i can shared that with you all. Just list the names and I am shall finding its in my PC If available

But please buy the original book after you received the Ebook. support their author so that they can wrote more book on future.

doomvein
Any JQuery Ebook ?

If you need Ruby / RUby On Rails Ebook, can exchange with me

azril.nazli at gmail.com

does you all learn C++ from book or Internet ?

This post has been edited by billneedme: Jan 21 2009, 12:34 PM

I`m currently reading Java by Thompson International and an e book on c++ compiliers

For C# or .NET development, it is also worthwhile to read

Ms Press - Inside CLR via C#

The reason is that this book would guide you how to write your code and choices of syntaxes so then it is compliant with .NET framework and also to maximize the CLR functionality to avoid reinventing the wheel.

Thanks for the info, I appreciate it.

Not sure if you're asking a weird question, but mostly I assume programmers here are the one who take up programming-related course be it B.Sc Comp Science or some mechanical engineering or E&E courses. From there, books and internet are there to enhance & brush C++.

Learning from scratch on programming from books and internet is very unlikely unless you have a profound interest in it.

This post has been edited by dreamsky999: Jul 21 2011, 01:10 AM

http://docs.jboss.org/seam/3/latest/reference/en-US/html/

Seam 3 tutorial. If u want to learn about jboss seam 3.

Object Models: Strategies, Patterns, and Applications by Peter Coad
Java Modeling In Color With UML by Peter Coad
Analysis Patterns by Martin Fowler

Fantastic modeling books!

Some ASP.NET and MVC books from WROX. Pretty good.

C book, because that's what missing from this world...
seriously, it's free and pretty (or very) decent:
http://icube-icps.unistra.fr/index.php/File:ModernC.pdf

Author's blog (Jan Gustedt):
https://gustedt.wordpress.com/

where would u guys recommend reading tutorials for beginners? i just joined a programming company lately, they mainly uses linux, sql, and shellscript. am coping with basics okay but i cant really look for good online tutorials/reads

For microsoft technology tutorial, usually I will refer to their https://docs.microsoft.com/en-my/

Would suggest:
Clean Code and Clean Architecture by Bob.
Then move to DDD books.

I learnt from a book but that was a long time ago there might be some online courses too.

Personally I think there is nothing wrong with picking up programming from a book. When I went to university 25 years ago and did computer engineering we spent more time being taught software engineering concepts. Example operating systems, compilers, computer graphics ray tracing, artificial intelligence (expert systems, neural networks, language recognition, searching), software development processes. Programming was just a tool we never had a course called programming we were just were taught the concepts and had to develop a project based based on the concepts example a ray tracing application, an expert system etc...

We were expected to pick up the languages ourselves. If you are not able to pick up a language from a book maybe programming might not be right for you due to lack of interest or you might have have also picked up the wrong book.

If you have not programmed before it’s better to pick up a book with some exercises at the end of each chapter with sample answer programs. If you don’t have exercises to practise you would most probably finish the book and still be totally confused.

As a software developer, we need to be careful with our licenses.

https://choosealicense.com/licenses/

Anyone suggest some programming test like coderank for practice?

Hackerank is good.

How to start?

........

This post has been edited by FlierMate: Dec 31 2021, 05:17 PM

I know this is necropost, but thank you so much for your input

I'm using MIT Open Courseware and freecodecamp

Some history of how ASCII came into existence and why we see all the various parts where they are today.

"Coded Character Sets, History and Development" by Charles E. Mackenzie (IBM Corp), 1980

https://textfiles.meulie.net/bitsaved/Books...dedCharSets.pdf (27MB)

Thank you for informing!

Wow, can't believe I did make some posts here. After I am back to learn programming xD

Here is a list of some popular technical magazines:

PoC||GTFO ( https://pocorgtfo.hacke.rs/ )
tmp.0ut ( https://tmpout.sh/ )
Paged Out! ( https://pagedout.institute/ )
Phrack ( http://www.phrack.org/ )

This post has been edited by Mat Quasar: Feb 16 2025, 12:46 AM

ELF x86-64-ABI psABI
(System V Application Binary Interface
AMD64 Architecture Processor Supplement)

https://gitlab.com/x86-psABIs/x86-64-ABI/-/...i.pdf?job=build