Favorite Tech Books

Submitted by jim on Tue, 02/20/2001 - 10:00
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  • Perl Cookbook by Tom Christiansen and Nathan Torkington
  • Unix Power Tools by Jerry D. Peek, Tim O'Reilly, and Mike Loukides
  • Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey Friedl
  • Code Complete by Steve McConnell
  • Webmaster in a Nutshell by Stephen Spainhour & Valerie Quercia
  • The Guru's Guide to Transact-SQL by Ken Henderson
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I've read a bunch (but not nearly as much as I'd like), and these worked best for me. Clear, useful, practical, educational.

08/02/1999

I would add:
Perl: the camel and llama o'reilly books
OOP: Booch
Win32 API: Petzold
Win32 MFC: Prosise
C: The C Programming Language -- K&R
C++: C++ Primer -- Lippman
Unix: The UNIX Programming Environment -- Brian W. Kernighan
Networks: Unix Network Programming -- Stevens
TCP/IP - Comer

jim08/02/1999

The only ones of those I've read are the camel and llama books. And I agree they are excellent, but Perl didn't really click for me until I read the cookbook, so I gave it the nod over the other two.