The Soul of a New Machine. Fascinating documentation of Data General's development of the 32-bit Eclipse machine. Sorta programming, sorta hardware... back when the two were more tightly integrated.
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#42Effective Objective-C 2.0:
https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Matt_Galloway_Ef...
In the style of other "Effective Foo" books. Excellent overview of best practices for ObjC, it's the first book I hand new developers on my team.
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#43"Programming in Lua", by Roberto Ierusalimschy. This is a gem of a programming book. Some of my favorite chapters: coroutines, metamethods, weak tables, threads and states. Similar in tone and clarity to K&R "The C Programming Language". I learn something new every time I flip through this book.
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#44"Mining of Massive Datasets", by Jure Leskovec, Anand Rajaraman, and Jeffrey D. Ullman. You can get the PDF here:
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#45Not programming per say, but love Downey's ThinkOs (free): http://greenteapress.com/thinkos/.
Am currently reading Think Complexity (also free): http://greenteapress.com/complexity/index.html
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#46Computer Systems: A programmer's perspective
Great look at under-the-hood of what happens when a program runs.
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#47C++ Concurrency in Action, Practical Multithreading, by Anthony Williams
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#48"Peopleware" http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Second-... , a lot of insights and ideas how to build great teams. Great to read for developers, team leads and managers. "The art of multiprocessor programming", excellent book on parallel programming theory with code explanations: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0123705916?ie=UTF8&tag=nirs...
I read (not all of it, maybe 50% of it) "The art of multiprocessor programming" a couple of years ago and I agree, its an excellent book. I have a handful of books on the topic and I find this to be my favourite.
If you have the list of books to read on the topic I would be happy if you share it. My next book on the topic will be http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/programming-distributed-comput...
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#49Code Complete has pretty good bang per page, especially if you are beginner. http://www.amazon.co.uk/Code-Complete-Practical-Handbook-Con...
This is the most disappointing programming book I have ever had a misfortune to buy. If you ever read any UML / Rational Software books - this is right up there in terms of sucking all joy out of programming, putting a blue collar and tie on you and then strangling you to death with soul-less trivialization of the software creation process. Horrible, horrible book.
If you like K&R books, stay the hell away from Code Complete. But make sure to read it though if you think programming is a career.
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#50Sql Antipatterns by Bill Karwin