I bet that many of you have some favorite books-of-the-trade. Books that made you curious about development, or book that helped you to learn how to code.
Some of my favorites are:
“Algorithms and Data Structures” by Julian M. Bucknall. Although focussed on Delphi, this book delivers so much know-how on several topics like algorithm performance, searching, linked lists, hashing, hash tables, arrays. A very good read.
“Database systems: design, implementation and management” by Peter Rob and Carlos Coronel. This (academic) book explains everything there is to know about databases and design. Tough but valuable.
“Think like a programmer: a solution to creative problem solving” by V. Anton Spraul. This funny book shows how to deal with problems that need to be solved programmatically. Paradigms like recursion, iterations, arrays, where to use them and how to use them. Examples are written in C++ but that should not stop you from reading it.
Besides these, I bought some of the available books on Real Basic/Real Studio (before the Xojo era):
“Beginning Real basic: From Novice to Professional” by Jerry Lee Ford. Basic, but still usable, and still available!
“Real Basic, the definite guide” by Matt Neuburg. Very good, very informative, excellent examples. Still available. Surprised me, because I thought it was out of print.
“Realbasic. Cross Platform Application Development” by Mark. S. Choate. I wasn’t able to do much with this book. It is written around a very specific application that gets build.
Not about development but about cryptography:
“The Code Book” by Simon Singh. I you want something to read about this topic, buy this book. Very informative and very well written. Compelling.
What are your favorites?