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Sunday, 17. June 2007, 11:21:37

I've read many books about programming - C/C++, C#, PHP, DirectX...

The books which focus on a certain language or a technology almost always have the same things to say. For example, I looked at multiple books about DirectX and they all had the same stuff but in a slightly different form.


So I don't really like reading books that concentrate on specific languages because of that, but the matter of fact is that I'm not that great programmer yet. For example, I don't have much experience on bigger projects.


There are two books many people recommend: Code Complete and The Pragmatic Programmer.
I just recently got my hands on these two. They both focus on the more theoretic side of programming and software engineering, and they don't teach many of these things anywhere. I've read some chapters from both, and I highly recommend them!

Code Complete, Second Edition
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

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Anonymous 18. June 2007, 11:50

Dan writes:

Yeah they're great books! Definitely the two I'd recommend most highly. I think this Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence is really good too but you have wrap you head round lisp. Also I'm only in the first quarter of it.

Walter Tamboer 18. June 2007, 18:25

I just bought The Pragmatic Programmer, heard some good things about it so we'll see :wink:

Anonymous 19. June 2007, 16:30

Anonymous writes:

I haven't read either, but I might have a look at them. I wish I could find an interesting largeish project work on though...

Daryl Joseph Ducharme 9. July 2007, 14:40

Code complete is an awesome book. It has completely evolved the way I write code for the better.

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