Sunday, January 13, 2008

Books that influenced my software development career

Last night I was thinking about IT books that influenced my software development career and was of great value to me, I came up with this list of 11 books and as you can see there are nearly no books about recent programming languages and software tools on the list because I do think that these are only tools and any developer with the basic knowledge will take him maximum a week or two to learn any new programming language or tool. And from my experience once you are good at C++ you will learn any programming language easily.
Here is the list:

  1. Assembly Language Primer for the IBM PC & XT by Robert Lafore
  2. The Waite Group's Object-Oriented Programming in C++ Robert Lafore
  3. The Waite Group's C Programming Using Turbo C by Robert Lafore
  4. Computer Networks by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
  5. Modern Operating Systems by Andrew S. Tanenbaum
  6. Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change by Kent Beck
  7. Head First Design Patterns by Elisabeth Freeman , Eric Freeman, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra
  8. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John M. Vlissides
  9. Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development by Craig Larman
  10. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler
  11. Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, and William Opdyke