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November 9, 2011
Swelling with New Shiny Books
So I read the wonderful Design for Hackers and I managed to win some money for books from a course... So I ran away and ordered some new books, and they just arrived today. Yay!
First off I ordered Introduction to Algorithms which is the de facto book about algorithms and it seemed like a fitting thing to do as I won it by doing algorithm assignments.
Secondly I've been wanting to grab Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs for a while and I finally did. It's one of the classical computer books you have to read once in your life (or so they say).
I wasn't going to get a third book, but on adlibris where I got the vouchers you couldn't pay with two vouchers on one order. So I had to split it up and it felt kinda dumb to not use it all... So I ordered a third book. I had no idea what book to get though, but stackoverflow came to the rescue! It's a bunch of answers to the question "What is the single most influential book every programmer should read?" and is like a top X list for programming books.
Incidentally I've got a few of those already, and the two I've already decided on was there (SICP is 3rd, Introduction to Algorithms 5th). Of course I wanted to get either the 1st or 2nd and I ended up choosing the 2nd one, The Pragmatic Programmer just because it seemed a bit easier to read. I've got a ton of fairly hardcore programming books I need to plow through so something a bit easier to digest should be welcome.
Go go programming books!