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Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

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Re: Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

#11

It reminds me of the blog post: "A Complete Understanding is No Longer Possible" [ http://prog21.dadgum.com/129.html ]

This is why I still like old Unix systems (early BSD/v7 etc). It is possible to get a complete understanding of the system in a relatively short amount of time and they're still pretty productive.

xv6 reflects this from an educational perspective: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html

Re: Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

#12
A surprisingly low-quality, diluted, conformist list of mostly boring and outdated books. You can't expect much innovation to come from a team reading this. I scanned through the list 3 times looking for something of value, but nothing caught my eye. Disappointed by Intel.

Re: Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

#13

I am slightly disappointed by the list - for example C# threading is a book from 2003 and .NET has evolved a lot since then (Task, async, etc.). There are other, more recent books that represent current state of art in C#. Perhaps the reading list shouldnt state the year for which it is intended for?

The more current one is a free web resource http://www.albahari.com/threading/. You maybe come across that already. I like it.

Re: Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

#14
post #12

A surprisingly low-quality, diluted, conformist list of mostly boring and outdated books. You can't expect much innovation to come from a team reading this. I scanned through the list 3 times looking for something of value, but nothing caught my eye. Disappointed by Intel.

What would you recommend instead?

Re: Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

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post #14
post #12

A surprisingly low-quality, diluted, conformist list of mostly boring and outdated books. You can't expect much innovation to come from a team reading this. I scanned through the list 3 times looking for something of value, but nothing caught my eye. Disappointed by Intel.

What would you recommend instead?

See, that's part of the problem. It's not at all clear what this list aimed to accomplish, which explains the low quality of the result. You want me to recommend a book? Sure. Read Hemingway.

Re: Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

#16
Am I to presume that this list carries as much validity as most other "recommended reading" lists?

/which is to say, books which most working in the field didn't read to get into the field, don't read during the actual job, and probably aren't going to read except maybe as a reference chapter here or there?

Re: Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

#18
I know people say this all the time, but I nearly did not click the link, because it said scribd.

It turns out it's a pdf served at this address, along with another link to scribd in the brackets:

https://noggin.intel.com/sites/default/files/Intel-Recommend...

"I think the title should read [pdf] and [scribd]"

Re: Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

#19
post #13

I am slightly disappointed by the list - for example C# threading is a book from 2003 and .NET has evolved a lot since then (Task, async, etc.). There are other, more recent books that represent current state of art in C#. Perhaps the reading list shouldnt state the year for which it is intended for?

The more current one is a free web resource http://www.albahari.com/threading/ . You maybe come across that already. I like it.

Thank you so much for that link! I didn't know this site yet.
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