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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Andrew Hunt, David Thomas
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999
A Fork in the Road of my Career
Since I was young I wanted to be a programmer. I got my first development job only a few years ago, and have spent much of my free time reading blogs and the like. The problem with that was there were too many conflicting schools of thought on too many different ...
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Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions (The Addison-Wesley ...
Gregor Hohpe, Bobby Woolf
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003
Excellent book for Software Architect and Software Engineer
Many books have been written about SOA, but most of them are just about the theory of SOA. It's important for Software Architects and Software Engineers to understand the theory, but just knowing the theory is not enough to develop system utilizing SOA principles.
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)
Frederick P. Brooks
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1995
Required Reading For Anyone Serious About Software Development
30 Years later this book is still highly relevent. If your project is in trouble, don't add bodies!
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Elementary Statistics With Multimedia Study Guide (10th Edition) (MyStatLab Series)
Mario F. Triola
Addison Wesley, 2007
Wonderful Textbook
I had to take Statistics as part of my degree cirriculum. On top of that, I was taking this class distance learning style; no classroom teacher, no nothing. So I was really depending on this book to explain the concepts and formulas in an easy way that I could ...
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User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series)
Mike Cohn
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004
Change how you talk with Customers!
Writing usable requirements in Agile spaces. Yet another well crafted message suggesting how to modify the method of eliciting requirements into something that makes sense from the perspective of the customer. Use the customer's language! Mike makes it simple, uses ...
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series)
Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, ...
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999
Must have in any developers collection
I was referred to this book from a colleague after a quick discussion on "Replace temp with Query" in our projects code base.
I thought I knew it all as a software developer, but reading this book, I soon came to realize that as a software developer I was leaving a ...
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Java Concurrency in Practice
Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls, ...
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2006
Title should be: Java Thread Bible
After reading this book you will probably thank God that you haven't been using threads, but with that being said this book contains all the information you need to start writing code that walks the straight and narrow path.
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Cocoa(R) Programming for Mac(R) OS X (3rd Edition)
Aaron Hillegass
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2008
Great Beginner's Book
This book is great for the beginner, or those who have been out of the Cocoa game for a while. Its chapters are organized into a college course like structure. A great addition to any OS X developer's library.
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Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs (3rd Edition) (Addison-Wesley ...
Scott Meyers
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005
Must have for any C++ Programmer
This is a great book which covers a lot of useful topics for every C++ professional. I have been programming in C++ for a while so some of the topics Scott Mayers discussed were already familiar but I still picked up a lot from this book. From a beginner to ...
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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, ...
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1994
very attractive cover
unlike the last pattern book i reviewed (see my other reviews), this one has an attractive cover. i like blue.
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Programming Pearls (2nd Edition) (ACM Press)
Jon Bentley
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999
Programming insight
Derived from a popular series of columns from the ACM flagship magazine (Communications of the ACM), this book takes you as near as possible to a professional programmer's way of thinking.
Each chapter walks through the internal process a programmer follows to solve ...
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics including Feynman's Tips on Physics: The Definitive and Extended Edition
Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, ...
Addison Wesley, 2005
The Greatest Physics Tutorial Ever Written
Feynman doesn't just teach physics in these books: he teaches you to think like a physicist should. One complaint I've heard is that there's not enough math in them. "Too many words." (Kinda reminds you of Armadeus.) There are plenty of books that have the math. ...
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Advanced Windows Debugging (The Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series)
Mario Hewardt, Daniel Pravat
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007
Must have for any serious Windows programmer
Chapters on debugging heap/stack corruptions are simply invaluable. Worth reading even if you think you know everything about those issues, this book will easily prove you wrong.
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Authentic Assessment for English Language Learners: Practical Approaches for Teachers
J. Michael O'Malley, Lorraine Valdez Pierce
Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1996
The Best Assessment Book I've Seen
I bought this for an ESL Assessment class at the graduate level. I also teach ESL at a university, and this book comes in very handy, both in theory and in practice. I especially like the rubrics you give to students so they can assess their own strengths and ...
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Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series)
Martin Fowler
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2002
Must have reference for all developers
Even if you don't do "Enterprise Application" development, this book is a must have in your library. If you have been developing for more than a couple of years and you haven't seen 1/2 of the patterns in this book, then you are probably doing something wrong and this ...
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