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How do you manage your programming books between home and work? Do you carry all your books between the two or do you exclusively make use of e-books at one of the locations?
Started by sduplooy on
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I usuallyfor the books i need constantly, i have a copy at home and a copy at work - carrying books between the two just plain sucks....
But that's just personal preference
I find Safari Books a big help.
To use a physical book.
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What are your favorite programming books, both for generic programming and technology centric?
Started by andersjanmyr on
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AspectJ in Action: Practical Aspect-Oriented Programming by Ramnivas Laddad Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming by Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi ....
A great, eye-opening read.
Favorite programming books.
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Since Bookpool.com seems to have bought the farm, where is the best online bookstore for programming books now?
Started by Ronald Green on
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Barnes and Noble.com has a large selection of programming books as well cheap, is far from....
Amazon's used bookstore facilities are great, and you can buy the books a lot in Kendall Square.
programming books on Amazon.
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What are the best programming books published in 2008?
Started by Krishna Kumar on
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It's not yet another "Learn on the best practical ways... .
Easily, Real World Haskell would be the best programming book for 2008.
Marked down, but how about 2008 has been kind of a blah year as far as pure programming books go.
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(I'm starting this stack on the way to the bookstore...)
Programming languages seem to change often. In this case, is it wise to buy a book on a programming language? After all, the book might be useless (even as a reference) in a few year's time.
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Started by keyofnight on
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I find it especially appealing if you invest in eBooks are a totally different set of books than books about programming languages and should be bought and horded....
In pretty much any decent programming book you read.
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Why do programming books always have pictures of animals on them?
Seriously, I can't figure it out....
Started by Matt on
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I've seen some of them in old royalty-free stock....
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/oreilly-book-covers
I believe many the pictures are taken from the same collection.
To ask question why programming books have pictures of sliced fruit on them.
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Since programming is essentially hardware interpretation. Are there any books or articles on CPU's or other hardware components that can help in understanding low level programming languages?
Or even hardware books or articles that target programmers?...
Started by Ólafur Waage on
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It helped me understand a lot about real mode start trying to understand ... .
I'mSome long time ago I had a book about 386 internals.
Those and some assembly books.
Looking for the technical manuals for the chips you're programming.
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When people talk about functional programming books, the "classics' of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs , The Little Schemer , etc. inevitably enter the conversation.
What are the equivalent logic programming books out there?
Edit : I...
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An Introduction to Logic Programming through Prolog
Not sure if it is a classic but it is available Introducing logic programming 2 Programming with relations 3 Recursive structures 3.1 Lists 3.2.
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What books would you suggest that are not very technical but still talk about programming or other aspects of it. Books that are not tied down to a specific technology or language but instead talk about the field of programming.
I saw some list on Jeff...
Started by n00bstackie on
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Mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html
Code complete
What non-programming books should programmers read?
What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?
Best programming novel-programming....
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My personal definition of a "short" programming book is a book with less than ~500 pages, but YMMV. So if you have a different definition of a short book, feel free to post. If you can, please post the number of pages of the book you are recommending....
Started by Andrej M. on
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General programming book could include much more info, compared to a book for very specific is a good measure of quality !
Two excellent books for getting to the "meta" of programming, The C reading list is....
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