Comments on: Six "must have" computer science books…

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:35:58 +0000

a good one…

.NET 2.0 for Delphi Programmers - by John Shemitz, ISBN-13: 978-1-59059-386-8 or ISBN-10: 1-59059-386-3, special dedication:

To Anders Hejlsberg, for Turbo Pascal, Delphi, and now C#;

By: someone

someone — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:26:39 +0000

How to build a boat in 24hours

By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 12:03:20 +0000

once upon a time, in a distant place, far beyond the common reach, we were not even allowed to enroll in superior education programs (phd, etc), unless we knew knuth (at least vol 3) by hearth! read at least vol 3...

a decent / entry level book on algorithms is:

Algorithms and Theory of Computation Handbook - by Michael Atallach

also a decent book on how to write nicely modularized / elegant software (and a little bit of history):

The Art of Unix Programming - by Eric Steven Raymond

and if you know how to read between the rows, you'll find good (platform independent) hints...

Charles Petzold is also one the "eternals"!

an interesting link I used to evangelize is:

http://freecomputerbooks.com/

where one could find many many nice books...

oh, i almost forgot, an interesting book about the why(s) beyond the what(s) of c++!

The Design and Evolution of C++ - by Bjarne Stroustrup... Which goes beyond the c++ specifics, it's an excellent guide for young compiler engineers, who still dream on changing the world... (are we all? :-)

anyway, enough for now! good coding everyone!
daniel

By: John Wester

John Wester — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 09:55:01 +0000

And 8 for recreational reading:

"Soul of a New Machine", Tracy Kidder

"Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution", Steven Levy

"The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest", Po Bronson

"Cryptonomicon", Neal Stephenson

"The Baroque Cycle, Vol 1,2 and 3" Neal Stephenson

"SnowCrash", Neal Stephenson

"The Long Run: A Tale of the Continuing Time", Daniel Keys Moran

"A Fire Upon The Deep", Vernor Vinge

By: Pawel Glowacki

Pawel Glowacki — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 02:03:03 +0000

I wish I could secure an original copy of Danny Thorpe "Delphi Component Design" (http://www.amazon.co.uk/Delphi-Component-Design-Danny-Thorpe/dp/0201461366).

"Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming" by Jeffrey Richter opened my eyes to .NET (http://www.amazon.com/Applied-Microsoft-NET-Framework-Programming/dp/0735614229). Great book.

By: James Dean

James Dean — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 13:23:36 +0000

David:

Well, well, well. With all these "must have" computer books, you should be at least for now, proficient enough to start writing the Pi program some of us are still looking forward to seeing? You can pick any language you are comfortable with, even Fortran. Do you need more time or maybe some CodeGear engineers can give this veteran a hand? Any volunteers?

James

By: Thaddy De Koning

Thaddy De Koning — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:08:31 +0000

The Tomes of Delphi: Algorithms and Data Structures…

.. Fun to read, academically correct and ïn print".

Why? Apart from being well written this book covers a lot of these classics a long way and academically even more correct… Used to use it everyday, own a copy, know it by hart…

By: Eric Fortier

Eric Fortier — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:41:48 +0000

You already named 4 of them David, so here are the two which I think should be read by anyone:

"Code Complete 2nd edition", by Steven McConnell

"Writing Solid Code", by Steve Maguire.

They’re both old books, but they opened my eyes to so much things I can’t believe where I’d be without these!

Hmm, funny that both authors have the same initials and almost identical first names!