--- In [email protected], "Brett W. McCoy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 8/24/07, Thomas Hruska <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/c-prog/files/Books/ > > > > > > Can't think of a better way to spend a Friday night. :-P > > > > You seem to be satisfied sitting in front of a computer > > doing the whole e-mail thing. Reading a techie-book has > > to be at least twice as exciting :) > > I was serious! > > -- Brett > Whose Friday night was actually spent providing remote > support to one of our deployment engineers who had some > libraries missing from the server she was installing
Not that I would have been involved in this discussion at any time yet, but mentioning a techie book cannot remain without my 2 cents; I just love this book too much. ;-) To anyone who's serious about writing good code: IMO the best basis to programming in general is still provided by Donald Knuth's The Art Of Computer Programming; recently I received the three books as a birthday gift, and you should see my eyes flashing brightly when I'm sitting on board an airplane (every Monday I'm travelling to my current project site, every Friday I'm flying back) and read Knuth's classical work. I'm still in the preparative chapters, but even though I am by far not good enough with mathematics to understand everything Knuth has written I simply enjoy every line I read and every exercise I try. This is the best introduction into serious programming I've ever seen. I only can recommend working through it, and I well know that not many students ever touched this book even if they had the chance. As soon as I'm through with Knuth, I'll refer to Thomas' ebook; Thomas is such an experienced software developer that I'm really looking forward to comparing my own experiences with his opinions and ideas about software development in an industry-strength style. Regards, Nico
