Start - resources - What is the single most influential book every programmer should read? - Stack Overflow - Pentadactyl. Start - A Little Java: A Few Patterns (Language, Speech, & Communication) : Matthias Felleisen, Daniel P. Friedman, Ralph Edgar Johnson, Duane Bibby : 9780262561150 - Pentadactyl. Start - The Little LISPer : Daniel P. Friedman, Matthias Felleisen : 9780023397639 - Pentadactyl. Start - The Top 9½ Books In a Hacker's Bookshelf. Every hacker should have a good solid dead tree library to draw ideas from and use as reference material.
This list has a bit of everything – textbooks you will encounter at top tier computer science universities, books giving insight into the industry, and references you shouldn’t be caught without. It is a list of hackers’ classics. The Mythical Man Month: Essays on Software Engineering – Anniversary Edition. Start - Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools, 2nd Edition - Google Search - Pentadactyl. Start - The ANSI Common Lisp Book (Prentice Hall Series in Artificial Intelligence) : Paul Graham : 9780133708752 - Pentadactyl. Start - The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master : Andy Hunt, David Thomas : 9780201616224 - Pentadactyl. What others in the trenches say about The Pragmatic Programmer... "The cool thing about this book is that it's great for keeping the programming process fresh. The book helps you to continue to grow and clearly comes from people who have been there. " --Kent Beck, author of Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change "I found this book to be a great mix of solid advice and wonderful analogies!
" --Martin Fowler, author of Refactoring and UML Distilled "I would buy a copy, read it twice, then tell all my colleagues to run out and grab a copy. Start - Amazon.com: Thinking Forth (9780976458708): Leo Brodie: Books - Pentadactyl.