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Re: Ask HN: What are the latest and greatest books on your favorite language?

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Post by seivan »

kruk wrote: post #8

Stanley B. Lippman - C++ Primer - http://www.amazon.com/Primer-5th-Stanley-B-Lippman/dp/032171... I haven't been using C++ for a few years now and I needed a quick refresher. While I wouldn't call C++ Primer quick it covers all the basics really well. Great resource for people new to the language.

Second this. It's the only book I own that specifically covers a programming language. I own the fourth edition - has a slight different cover.

Only complaint is the same as yours, it's pretty verbose but I guess that's what you get with c++.

Re: Ask HN: What are the latest and greatest books on your favorite language?

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Post by davedx »

sanderjd wrote: post #6
jbuss wrote: post #3

Effective Java http://www.amazon.com/Effective-Java-2nd-Joshua-Bloch/dp/032...

I'm going through that right now, and finding it incredibly good, but still fairly outdated. It was written for Java 6, while Java 7 and (especially) 8 have more or less re-written the language. All of the advice is still really great, but some of the items are workarounds for weaknesses in the language that have since been strengthened. I'm working through Java 8 in Action [0] in parallel, and it's been a good exper…

> I'm looking for a good book about modern javascript if anyone has any suggestions.

I just finished writing an eBook about building large modern web apps in JavaScript. If you're interested, here's the link:

https://leanpub.com/buildingbattletestedfrontendsoftware

Cheers!

Re: Ask HN: What are the latest and greatest books on your favorite language?

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Post by dagw »

lalwanivikas wrote: post #15

JavaScript - "JavaScript: The Good Parts" http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596517748.do Can anyone please suggest more good books for JavaScript? - for beginner, intermediate and advanced levels? Thanks in advance :)

Effective JavaScript by David Herman

Re: Ask HN: What are the latest and greatest books on your favorite language?

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Post by aurelian15 »

C++ - "A tour of C++"

http://www.amazon.com/Tour-C--Depth/dp/0321958314

I read this book after having programmed C++ with the common "C++ is C with classes" attitude for a while, and it really made me change the way I looked at this language.

It was the book that made me realize how beautiful the RAII idiom is, that the STL was clearly not hacked together by a bunch of crazy monkeys, that you rarely need raw pointers in your code and that -- in contrast to popular belief -- you seldom need to care about memory management.

When I finished that book, and though in the full knowledge that I was dealing with this ugly monster of the Frankenstein kind; just like at the end of "the beauty and the beast", I had somehow come to respect and appreciate that language.

Re: Ask HN: What are the latest and greatest books on your favorite language?

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Post by sehr »

lalwanivikas wrote: post #15

JavaScript - "JavaScript: The Good Parts" http://shop.oreilly.com/product/9780596517748.do Can anyone please suggest more good books for JavaScript? - for beginner, intermediate and advanced levels? Thanks in advance :)

You cannot go wrong with JavaScript Allonge

https://leanpub.com/javascriptallongesix

Re: Ask HN: What are the latest and greatest books on your favorite language?

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Post by gtani »

aurelian15 wrote: post #17

C++ - "A tour of C++" http://www.amazon.com/Tour-C--Depth/dp/0321958314 I read this book after having programmed C++ with the common "C++ is C with classes" attitude for a while, and it really made me change the way I looked at this language. It was the book that made me realize how beautiful the RAII idiom is, that the STL was clearly not hacked together by a bunch of crazy monkeys, that you rarely need raw pointers…

the big 4, 2 very large dense books, and 2 small, very very very dense books:

- Lippman et al, C++ Primer, 5th ed

- Stroustrup, The c++ Language, 4th ed (which has earlier version "A Tour of" as 1st 150 pages

- Meyers "Effective C++", 3rd ed and

- "Effective Modern C++" http://www.aristeia.com/books.html (don't dismiss the others cause theyre 14+ years old, either

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