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- The Pragmatic Programmer (Hunt/Thomas) - Computer Architecture - A Quantitative Approach (Hennessy/Patterson) - Expert C Programming - Deep C Secrets (van d
by rffn 10y ago
- The Pragmatic Programmer (Hunt/Thomas)
- Computer Architecture - A Quantitative Approach (Hennessy/Patterson)
- Expert C Programming - Deep C Secrets (van der Linden)
I woud call the Pragmatic Programmer though by far the most influential.
- pllbnk 10y agoInteresting that this book is mentioned in this thread several times. I didn't find this book bringing almost any value to me. What it did was giving names (e.g. orthogonality) that I didn't know before to the common programming concepts that all developers with some practical experience should be aware of anyway as a common sense. But that might just be due to a different approach to programming. I find the books such as Andrew Tanenbaum's "Computer Networks" which are bringing historical perspective as well as a lot of technical information without going into the tiny details the best balance of useful and interesting. Therefore "Computer Architecture - A Quantitative Approach" is much better for me in that aspect and the C programming should be really interesting too, although I haven't read it.