While on the subject of books, I highly recommend Safari Flow (actually its been renamed www.safaribooksonline.com). Their books subscription used to be several levels, one where you could read all of their books and a lower priced one which worked like a library where you could "check out" a certain number of books per month. They trialed a new beta version a year or so ago called Safari Flow and it must have gone well because its essentially replaced their main book service.
I don't work for them but I used it during the beta. It's brilliant. Its targeted at developers primarily and recommends reading based on what you like (and read) as you go. It also tries to break things down into smaller chunks (so recommends chapters rather than whole books). The best part is when you are skilling up in a new language or tech, you have access to just about all the books on that topic. They add to their library all the time and also have video training (with transcripts). So when someone recommended Code by Charles (I'd not heard of it before) I typed in Charles Petzold in the search, saw the book and hit the Queue button. It's now queued for me to read later. It's not too expensive (especially compared to the old version of Safari Books), and cheaper if you pay per year rather than monthly. I especially like how a chapter is loaded in one go and you basically scroll down the web page. No page loading/turning except when you want the next chapter. There's an iOS app called Safari Queue that lets you read them offline (and their mobile app is just as good on Android/WP8). Go check it out and thank me later. ;) On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Tom P <[email protected]> wrote: > Great thanks guys, hadn't heard of that book anywhere else > > Thanks > Tom > > > On 4 December 2014 at 09:49, Andrew Coates (DX AUSTRALIA) < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> +1 – Code is a really good read. >> >> >> >> Andrew Coates, ME, MCPD, MCSD MCTS, Developer Evangelist, Microsoft, 1 >> Epping Road, NORTH RYDE NSW 2113 >> Ph: +61 (2) 9870 2719 • Mob +61 (416) 134 993 • Fax: +61 (2) 9870 2400 • >> http://blogs.msdn.com/acoat >> >> >> >> *From:* [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Preet Sangha >> *Sent:* Thursday, 4 December 2014 9:35 AM >> *To:* ozDotNet >> *Subject:* Re: [OT] Reading list >> >> >> >> I personally think aside from all the great books listed. Every >> programmer should read Code - by Petzold. At some point software has to >> magically jump into hardware and every programmer should have at least the >> modicum of understanding at this level. >> >> >> >> On 4 December 2014 at 11:02, Tom P <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Thanks Greg, have been meaning to get the CLR via C# book everybody >> talks about >> >> >> >> Thanks >> >> Tom >> >> >> >> On 3 December 2014 at 22:31, Greg Keogh <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> What are some must read books for a newbie .NET developer? There are >> so many so I thought I'd ask the experienced folk here. >> >> >> >> I've raved about these book in previous years. You can't consider >> yourself a serious .NET developer if you don't have one of these books >> within reach at all times: >> >> >> >> *C# 5.0 in a Nutshell* (Joseph Albahari, author of LINQPad) >> >> *CLR via C#* (Jeffrey Richter) >> >> >> >> Once you've memorised those two and feel more confident, rewire your >> brain to look at problems and solve them in a different way: >> >> >> >> *Expert F#* (Don Syme et al) >> >> >> >> Cheers, >> >> Greg K >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> >> regards, >> Preet, Overlooking the Ocean, Auckland >> > >
