 | Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve McConnell
Buy new: $31.49 / Used from: $22.00 If I could choose one title for mandatory reading in the software industry, this would be it. Crammed full of no-nonsense common sense. No theories, no API references - just good advice.
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 | Object Thinking (DV-Microsoft Professional) by David West
Buy used from: $14.83 Future classic. Discusses OOD & OOP illustrating that these skills are about the way you think. Thought provoking for the formalists and 'next level' stuff for the agile community.
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 | Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler
Buy new: $45.15 / Used from: $36.02 I really like this book - mainly because of the discussion of patterns and modern (i.e. web) programming issues. I got comfort from arriving at some of these patterns before picking up this title:-)
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 | Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler
Buy new: $41.93 / Used from: $37.99 One I re-read every few months. Ground breaking thoughts on how to create perfect, maintainable and readable code. Get this with a test driven development title and you're almost there.
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 | Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions by Gregor Hohpe
Buy new: $41.93 / Used from: $37.95 Not about SOA per se, and not about HST as such - but this is about messaging and that's what the future is. That and XML.
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 | Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools by Jack Greenfield
Buy new: $26.40 / Used from: $8.51 An interesting case presenting the case for industrialisation in the software industry.
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 | Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) by Jim Gray
Buy new: $109.60 / Used from: $25.37 Years old but everything to do with modern OLTP systems. A must read for all you ServicedComponent \ ADO.NET transaction people.
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 | Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma
Buy new: $38.70 / Used from: $28.32 Seminal stuff. Responsible for the patterns movement. Its impact is still felt today.
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 | Effective C++: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Design (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) by Scott Meyers
Buy used from: $3.90 Great book. Worth a re-read from time to time - something in here for all lanaguages and platforms.
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 | Object-Oriented Software Construction (Book/CD-ROM) (2nd Edition) by Bertrand Meyer
Buy new: $102.05 / Used from: $22.19 A complete title on OO - a bible like reference at over 1200 pages.
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