Lined up

• [1] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of_Computer_Programs w] Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
  • Abelson, Sussman
  • The "purple book"
  • MIT introductory text.

• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programming w] The Art of Computer Programming
  • Donald E. Knuth

Un-judged

• C Programming Language
  • Kernighan, Ritchie

• The UNIX Programming Environment
  • Kernighan, Pike

• The Pragmatic Programmer

• [3] Pragmatic Thinking and Learning
  • "It's another motivating book. Makes you want to be productive, get shit done, organize your life, encourage your creative side (R-brain in the book)." -- Josh Creek
  • "It also makes a point to give you a mental model for your brain." -- Josh Creek

• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Projects_and_Teams w] Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
  • Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister
  • "A lot of attention is paid to environment, things like noise, concentration, flow, lighting, furniture, etc. A lot about what makes a good team, and how to avoid killing an otherwise good team. A lot of attention paid to valuing people." -- Josh Creek
  • Short and focused chapters make it easy to pick up and read a little bit at a time.
  • Read. Good book. To re-read.

• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month w] The Mythical Man-Month
  • Fred Brooks
  • Already read?

• The Deadline; "A Novel About Project Management"
  • Tom DeMarco
  • Already read?

• Rework
  • Short and focused chapters make it easy to pick up and read a little bit at a time.

• Absolute Java
  • "... I still think its a great starter book, it helped me understand things like arrays and memory, and really grounded a lot of concepts for me." -- Josh Creek

• Talion: Revenant

• Stroustrup's book on language creation.

• The Practice of Programming
  • Kernighan and Pike

• Coders at Work
  • Peter Siebel

• How To Design Programs
  • http://www.htdp.org/

• [4] How to Think Like a Computer Scientist

• Code Complete

• Working Effectively with Legacy Code
  • Micheal Feather

• Object Oriented Software Construction
  • Bertrand Meyer
  • http://docs.eiffel.com/book/method/object-oriented-software-construction-2nd-edition

• Object Oriented Analysis and Design
  • Booch et al
  • not recommended. Try Bertrand Meyer. Or perhaps Rebecca Wirfs-Brock [TODO: Research].

• Mastering Regular Expressions
  • Jeffrey E.F. Friedl
  • http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780596528126/

• Clean Code
  • Robert C. Martin

• Smalltalk/V DOS
  • Digitalk

• The Logic Book
  • Merrie Bergmann, James Moor, Jack Nelson
  • 007353563X
  • 978-0073535630
  • Or any tolerable book on symbolic logic. This was already on the plan, but I ought to begin a reading list. There are some nice videos on logic on youtube. Begin there.

• Learning Perl
  • the llama book

• Intermediate Perl
  • the alpaca book, originally called Perl Objects, References, and Modules

• Seven Languages in Seven Weeks

• The School of Niklaus Wirth: The Art of Simplicity
  • .. Hmm, this rings a bell.

• Compiler Construction
  • Wirth

• Effective TCP/IP Programming: 44 Tips to Improve Your Network Programs

• The Annotated C++ Reference Manual
  • first and last good book on C++, besides meyers [TODO: Research what that one is]
    • This could be referring to w] [http://www.aristeia.com/books.html Scott Meyers. See http://scottmeyers-ebooks.com/

• The Little Schemer

• The Seasoned Schemer

• Reasoned Schemer

• Performance and Evaluation of LISP Systems

• LISP 1.5 Programmer's Manual

• Lisp in Small Pieces

• Bugs in Writing (best English book ever)

• Smalltalk-80: The Language and its Implementation

• Smalltalk With Style

• The Design and Evaluation of a High Performance Smalltalk System
  • SOAR - "best fucking book on objective profiling and optimization ever written" -- Ryan Davis

• Lions' Commentary on Unix

• A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction

• The Timeless Way of Building

• More Programming Pearls: Confessions of a Coder

• Programming Pearls
  • ACM Press

• Writing Efficient Programs
  • Prentice-Hall Software Series

• Working Effectively with Legacy Code

• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

• Writing Solid Code: Microsoft's Techniques for Developing Bug-Free C Programs

• Code Complete

• Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully

• More Secrets of Consulting: The Consultant's Tool Kit

• Thinking Forth

• How to Write Parallel Programs: A First Course

• Building Better Applications: A Theory of Efficient Software Development

• Tao of Objects: A Beginner's Guide to Object-Oriented Programming

• The Design and Construction of Compilers
  • Robin Hunter, John Wiley & Sons, 1984

• Dragon Book, Principles of Compiler Design
  • by Alfred V. Aho and Jeffrey D. Ullman...1977
  • re. compilers.

• Dragon Book, Principles of Compiler Design
  • Aho & Ullman
  • This is a much fatter revision which supercedes the above version. The above book is still valuable though.

• Programming Language Pragmatics
  • Michael Scott

• UML Distilled
  • by Martin

• [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bjarne_Stroustrup w] Bjarne Stroustrup's books

• C++ Template Metaprogramming
  • Abrahams and Gurtovoy.

• Metaprogramming Ruby