The Pragmatic Programmer
This book is full of practical advice for software developers. However, most of the advice is fairly simple and those with even a small amount of real-world experience will already know much of it. Also, the advice is of the kind that is very hard to learn from reading a book. You can read all [...]
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Learn You a Haskell for Great Good
This book provides a quirky introduction to a very interesting functional programming language called Haskell. Haskell is one of the more modern functional programming languages. It requires a radical change in the way you think while programming. The tone of this book provides some lightness to an otherwise very heavy subject matter. However, don’t be [...]
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Test Driven Development: By Example
Test-driven development is a systematic way of producing robust code. The idea is to write a test before you start writing the code that the test is meant for. This will ensure that almost all of your code has tests and it helps keep you focused on making small increments of progress that you lock [...]
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
The interesting aspect of this book is that it attempts to break down the process of refactoring code into a set of refactoring operations that each consist of a sequence of mechanical steps that are guaranteed to preserve the semantics of the program. This is really interesting because it means that you can teach the [...]
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Hacker’s Delight
This is simply a book full of tricks for low level programmers. Most of the book was pretty boring stuff. It was boring because it was little optimizations and methods that are not commonly useful. On top of this, the tone of the book is fairly heavy, making it more dull than other books of [...]
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
The style of this book is amazing. Levy is a high quality story teller. All the big names in productive hacking are found in this entertaining exposition. This book began the common use of the term hacker, before it took on the connotation of malevolent intrusion. Emphasis is placed on the Hacker Ethic and its [...]
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Dealers of Lightning
One will be amazed at how much progress towards a home computer hinged on the work of the employees of Xerox in the Palo Alto Research Center. It seems that any major component of an interactive computer was developed at this one hub of creation. This book introduces the key players and tells the tale [...]
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C & UNIX
A good introduction to the unix/linux environment. The common programs and commands are explained with high detail. This will get you very fluent in using the operating system, but won’t help too much in becoming a crack programmer. ★★★★★
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Being Digital
This book basically goes through some of the historical development of computer technology and then discusses some of the implications. There wasn’t anything particularly enjoyable or insightful. ★★★★★
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Building Embedded Linux Systems
This book is a good source of information for setting up the Linux software of an embedded system. It does not give a lot of explanation of embedded systems or using the software. Because of its focus, it is not that enjoyable to read and it isn’t a very thorough introduction to embedded system design, [...]
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