I finished The Clean Coder last month - was very impressed with it. I don't think it is as good as Code Complete or the Pragmatic Programmer though.
Alister Christie Computers for People Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 http://www.salespartner.co.nz Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/salespartner PO Box 13085 Johnsonville Wellington On 29/08/2011 4:05 p.m., Colin Johnsun wrote: > I have three books on my reading list that I have picked up and put > down many times over the past year or so. They are directly related to > Delphi or but are worth reading from a general point of view of > becoming a better programmer. > > Here are my three books: > > The Art of Unit Testing by Roy Osherove. The book uses examples in C# > and .Net but this is a great book about how to write *good* unit tests > and some of the pitfalls to avoid. This is not so much about the > mechanics of writing unit tests but more about the best practices > involved in creating unit tests. > > The Clean Coder by Robert C. Martin. It's the follow up book to Clean > Code also by "Uncle Bob". In this book he talks about the ideals of > being a "software craftsman". All about the technique, tools and > practices to make us better programmers. > > Continuous Delivery by David Farley and Jez Humble. Great book on > automating the whole software build process all the way to delivering > the final product. The idea is not so much that you have to always > deliver the final product in this agile method but the fact that you > can. > > Cheers, > Colin > > On 29 August 2011 07:39, Alister Christie<[email protected]> wrote: >> For those interested, you can get the GOF Design Patterns ebook for $US10 >> today. I've not (yet) read it, but it's one of those books that everyone >> references. The other one would be Refactoring by Martin Fowler (which I >> have read). >> >> What are other people reading at the moment.? >> >> The last few books I've read have been Bob Swarts Intraweb book, the >> Intraweb manual and a couple of books on jQuery Mobile. >> >> -- >> Alister Christie >> Computers for People >> Ph: 04 471 1849 Fax: 04 471 1266 >> http://www.salespartner.co.nz >> Follow us on Twitter http://twitter.com/salespartner >> PO Box 13085 >> Johnsonville >> Wellington >> >> _______________________________________________ >> NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list >> Post: [email protected] >> Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi >> Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: >> unsubscribe >> > _______________________________________________ > NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list > Post: [email protected] > Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi > Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with > Subject: unsubscribe > > _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: [email protected] Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to [email protected] with Subject: unsubscribe
