Programming, Pearls
by Jon Bentley
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Software Development, Software, and Software Design.
The first edition of Programming, Pearls was one of the most influential books I read early in my career, and many of the insights I first encountered in that book stayed with me long after I read it. Jon has done a wonderful job of updating the material. I am very impressed at how fresh the new examples seem. Steve McConnell When programmers list...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Software Development, Software, and Software Design.
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Jeff Atwood
“Programming, Pearls is the next best thing to working side by side with a master programmer for a year or so. It is the collective wisdom of many journeyman coders distilled into succinct, digestible columns.”
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“Reading it feels like listening to Frederick P. Brooks Jr. deliver a set of terse, experience-packed essays drawn from his time managing the IBM System/360 project. The most useful material: concise maxims about staffing, scheduling, documentation, and interface boundaries that give language for hard organizational limitations. Limits include dated technical examples, a single-author, prescriptive voice, and repeated restatements; readers looking for modern case studies or practical templates will find no hands-on exercises. Best read slowly to mine specific heuristics rather than as a how-to playbook.”
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