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Recommended Books

Evil Phil

Feel free to post any books you feel are relevant to the Software Development (no books about some guy's prong please).

Just to get the ball roling:

Code Complete - while I've never read the full book its a must have for every MS developers book shelf.
Ground Up Java - A good book for anyone learning to program in Java.
The O'Reilly Cookbooks - good solutons for everyday programming tasks.

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Brussels Sprout

Here's an Aladdin's cave of free online books.

ChickenZombie

Fab resources guys...

Appreciated...
Thanks...

CZ

Brussels Sprout

Can someone recommend a good book for learning enough SQL/Oracle to be able to write stored procedures and functions and decipher what other people have written?

Korvanica

Brussels Sprout wrote: »

Can someone recommend a good book for learning enough SQL/Oracle to be able to write stored procedures and functions and decipher what other people have written?

From Scratch ?

http://headfirstlabs.com/books/hfsql/

Id also recommend

"Learning SQL"

and

"SQL In a nutshell, 2nd Edition"

Brussels Sprout

Korvanica wrote: »

From Scratch ?

http://headfirstlabs.com/books/hfsql/

Id also recommend

"Learning SQL"

and

"SQL In a nutshell, 2nd Edition"

Would the fact that I'd be using Oracle have any impact on the functions and procedures that I'd be writing or is that purely a function of the language (SQL)?

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I can't recommend this book highly enough. http://www.amazon.com/Primer-Plus-Edition-Developers-Library/dp/0321776402

It is essential if you wish to be a C++ coder.

carter2

Clean Code
Effective C++ & More Effective C++
Mine choice would be Effective STL
If you plan to use the C++ Standard Template Library, seriously, read this book… or at least browse it a bit! It contains lot’s of useful information, and it will certainly help you to understand how the STL really works behind scenes.

razor2013

Growing Object-Orientated Software, Guided By Tests: Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce

This is a book on Test Driven Development in Java. Its very easy to read and explains everything well.

PrzemoF

Art of UNIX programming

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Unix_Programming

Alpha Dog 1

Thinking of trying to learn code, complete noob, can anyone recommend me a good book to get me started?

Korvanica

Alpha Dog 1 wrote: »

Thinking of trying to learn code, complete noob, can anyone recommend me a good book to get me started?

I'll sound like a broken record saying this but the head first books are great for learning a new language.

Alpha Dog 1

Korvanica wrote: »

I'll sound like a broken record saying this but the head first books are great for learning a new language.

Any particular head first book or language which I should look at first?

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Understanding C Pointers
Managing Projects with GNU Make
Expert C Programming
Autotools: A Practioner's Guide to GNU Autoconf, Automake, and Libtool
GNU Make, Version 3.77
An Introduction to GCC: For the GNU Compilers GCC and G++
Linux System Programming: Talking Directly to the Kernel and C Library
C Primer Plus 5th Edition
The Linux Programming Interface: A Linux and UNIX System Programming Handbook

Atomic Pineapple

Can anyone point me in the direction of a book or online series of tutorials that would help me get up to speed with creating a Chrome packaged app?

In addition any books that do a good job of covering HTML5 and Javascript with a view to creating a single page style application?

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http://www.amazon.com/Core-Volume-I--Fundamentals-Edition-Series/dp/0137081898/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1391450604&sr=8-1&keywords=core java

This is a fantastic Java book.

Atomic Pineapple

Anyone recommend any good books/resources for Ruby on Rails, I've followed online tutorials and have the basics as in I can build a dynamic website with CRUD operations but looking at the best path to advance from here.

c_man

Going through Cracking the Coding Interview at the mo, and couldn't recommend it enough

Omega28

Can anyone recommend a book for beginners? HTML, CSS, JS, Jquery, PHP and MySQL

a fat guy

@Atomic: Check out Rails 3 Tutorial by Michael Hartl. You can find the previous edition online for free. The book guides you through the building of a Twitter clone, and although it is lacking in detail in some areas, I enjoyed it quite a lot.

@Omega: I don't think you'll find a single book to cover all of that. The closest you'll find are PHP + MySQL books. HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Jquery are all front-end technologies, so you'd likely be looking at getting a front-end book and back-end book. Probably another again to do with design as well (CSS/HTML). I would personally just look online for tutorials and examples.

On topic: As has been mentioned before Headfirst Java is meant to be amazing, and still relevant today despite being quite old. The author actually researched the most effective learning techniques, so the book is filled with jokes and diagrams. It might not be to your tastes, but I'm going to give it a try as I'm a bit rusty on Java.

NeutralHandle

UML Distilled by Martin Fowler.

It talks about UML in the context of a communication tool rather than in the context of a tool to model every detail of a system. It deals with a subset of UML which can be used to capture and express knowledge about software systems very effectively.

(I can't post links because I am new.)

a fat guy

NeutralHandle wrote: »

UML Distilled by Martin Fowler.

It talks about UML in the context of a communication tool rather than in the context of a tool to model every detail of a system. It deals with a subset of UML which can be used to capture and express knowledge about software systems very effectively.

(I can't post links because I am new.)

All his books can be found here.

I link to them all, because I've heard that pretty much anything he's written is gold.

Hungheavy

Can anyone recommend a good book for learning SQL?

funkey_monkey

Hi,

Anyone got a recommendation for beginner/intermediate level Java - looking to have upto Java 8 covered. I was looking at Effective Java, but it only goes up to Jave SE 6.

I'm also looking for a book which is focused on programming methodology - i.e. how to design a program in terms of its architecture and how to break down a problem into its solution. Suggestions greatly welcome.

Thanks.

Buford T Justice

funkey_monkey wrote: »

Hi,

Anyone got a recommendation for beginner/intermediate level Java - looking to have upto Java 8 covered. I was looking at Effective Java, but it only goes up to Jave SE 6.

I'm also looking for a book which is focused on programming methodology - i.e. how to design a program in terms of its architecture and how to break down a problem into its solution. Suggestions greatly welcome.

Thanks.

Java 6 is plenty to be getting started with tbh

funkey_monkey

Buford T Justice wrote: »

Java 6 is plenty to be getting started with tbh

So, I should be okay with Effective Java still? Even though I'm going into a job using 7 and soon going to 8?

Thanks for the reply

Buford T Justice

If you are looking to cover the basics, then 6 will do fine. You might want to look at something else for the the advanced stuff

Donald Trump

Sparks wrote: »

My shortlist:
The C Programming Language - definitely one of the best books on a language ever written. Clean, concise, and usable both for learning and reference.

Unix Programming Environment - very good introduction to unix programming.

Design of the UNIX Operating System - there's a few like this (design of the BSD OS, etc, etc, etc) and the Lyons book on unix, but this is about the best starting point. You want to know why an OS is designed the way it is, this is what you read.

Code Complete - just seconding Evil Phil. This book's worth overcoming the Microsoft Press label

The Pragmatic Programmer - it's not going to teach you C or Lisp, butif you want to be a programmer as a profession, this should be on your library, well-read and with a half-dozen markers in it.

Knuth. Enough said. Unless you haven't heard of it, in which case, this is the book to learn real programming on.

The gang of four book gets a lot of press, and it's pretty good (though not for beginners) -- but you really ought to read the original book as well. It doesn't cover programming, but it explains patterns better.

There are four books by Tufte:
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Envisioning Information

Beautiful Evidence

Visual Explanations: Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative

Read them. All of them. Hell, even if you never design a UI and quit programming tomorrow, they're some of the most beautiful books you'll ever buy -- and if you design UIs, or you ever have to give a presentation (you will, it's inevitable), then you need to read these books. To save our brains, if for no other reason.

I would have added a few from your list. The first two for sure and TAOCP of course.

I'd also add a few of the Richard Steven's books to the list. The network programming ones and APUE. Just don't see that there are two editions of his networking book(s) and assume that the first one would not be worth buying. It's actually a nicer book. If you had to buy either first or second editions, I'd say go with first one. Some of the stuff in the second one is actually a bit superfluous and outdated, while the first edition has good general fundamentals

smacl

NeutralHandle wrote: »

UML Distilled by Martin Fowler.

It talks about UML in the context of a communication tool rather than in the context of a tool to model every detail of a system. It deals with a subset of UML which can be used to capture and express knowledge about software systems very effectively.

(I can't post links because I am new.)

I love his book on refactoring. A really useful read for anyone working with legacy code, which is most of us at one time or another,

nsa0bupkd3948x

Can anyone recommend a design patterns book - I'll be programming in Python.

iLikeWaffles

Got a book there a few weeks ago:
No Bullshit guide to Maths & Phyics by Ivan Savov.

Great book for brushing up on maths and just having as a reference.