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Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

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Re: Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

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Define low-quality, boring and outdated in this context, and provide alternatives. I am waiting.

Well, Java Concurrency in Practice certainly isn't low quality but it is boring and outdated. An alternative would be Clojure For the Brave And True :)

Java may be outdated, but "Java Concurrency in Practice" is not outdated if you're one of the millions of Java programmers still working in that language.

Re: Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

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post #41

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Well, Java Concurrency in Practice certainly isn't low quality but it is boring and outdated. An alternative would be Clojure For the Brave And True :)

Java may be outdated, but "Java Concurrency in Practice" is not outdated if you're one of the millions of Java programmers still working in that language.

Well, yeah. My point, made somewhat tongue in cheek, was that you can avoid all of the horror stories of Java concurrency by switching to Clojure.

Re: Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

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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?

Yes. I looked at the software dev list; I only skimmed it, but none that I saw were books I read, or books I'd care to read, despite being in the field for 4 years now, and being a fairly passionate learner in terms of new techniques, technologies, languages, and methodologies.

EDIT: Correction; I see Code Complete.

Re: Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

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A surprisingly low-quality, diluted, conformist list of mostly boring and outdated books.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.

Define low-quality, boring and outdated in this context, and provide alternatives. I am waiting.

Android books from 2012 for one. Alternative would be recent Linux for Embedded Systems or anything else besides teaching you ICS API

Re: Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

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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.

Sorry bro, not everyone is beasting out JavaScript.

Re: Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

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Planning to switch from c to c++; I'm really exited to read this. @commenter: The word switch doesn't have to rely on relevance between subjects it is referring to. It has more to do with the speed of changing the direction.

i suggest you phrase it 'planning to learn c++' - there's hardly any switching from C if you plan to write modern C++, because there's hardly any C in it.

That has been my problem with C++. When I took my classes that used it[1], the ink was still wet on the original standard. After that, I spent years writing real-time C, with the occasional foray into "C with classes" territory. I can't seem to shake that foundation and "learn" C++ again.

[1] I'm an EE/borderline CompE so I only had three.

Re: Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

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post #29

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Define low-quality, boring and outdated in this context, and provide alternatives. I am waiting.

Android books from 2012 for one. Alternative would be recent Linux for Embedded Systems or anything else besides teaching you ICS API

That's not on Amazon. Do you mean "Building Embedded Linux Systems"? Or, are you referring to a self-published (or not yet published) book?
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