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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Andrew Hunt, David Thomas
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999
A Fork in the Road of my Career
Since I was young I wanted to be a programmer. I got my first development job only a few years ago, and have spent much of my free time reading blogs and the like. The problem with that was there were too many conflicting schools of thought on too many different ...
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Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (4th Edition)
James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross
Addison Wesley, 2007
One of the Best
"Computer Networking" by Kurose and Ross is an excellent introduction to the topic of computer networking as it relates to the largest and arguably most important network of them all: the internet. As stated in the title, the authors take a top-down approach that, in ...
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User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (Addison-Wesley Signature Series)
Mike Cohn
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004
Good Advice for Beginners and Experts
This book provides excellent insight into the story driven process, with immediately actionable advice. Cohn clearly describes the advantages of stories, and explains how to develop quality systems that deliver value to the user. Anyone operating in, or hoping to adopt ...
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Statistics With Multimedia Study Guide (10th Edition) (MyStatLab Series)
Mario F. Triola
Addison Wesley, 2007
Great service
I am amazed and very pleased at the speed in which I received my order and in the perfect condition it was in. I will, from now on, use Amazon for my next purchases.
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Linear Algebra and Its Applications, Third Updated Edition
David C. Lay
Addison Wesley, 2005
Excellent
I bought it used for half the price of the same book used at my college textbook, and yet when I received it the book was practically brand new. Excellent Service.
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Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs (3rd Edition) (Addison-Wesley ...
Scott Meyers
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2005
Just get it
This book must be required reading for anyone developing in C++. I count this book as essential as Bjarne Stroustrup's "The C++ Programming Language"; these two books are a necessity.
Mr. Stroustrup's book could be considered a technical reference to the C++ ...
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Cocoa(R) Programming for Mac(R) OS X (3rd Edition)
Aaron Hillegass
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2008
OS X developer must have
If you plan to write for Mac OS X, and have some programming experience, this book is a MUST HAVE. This is by far the best introductory book I have ever read on any language.
If you DO NOT have programming experience, I would still recommend this book. There are ...
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Java Concurrency in Practice
Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls, ...
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2006
The best book on Java concurrency out there.
As others have written, this is the best book out there on Java concurrency. I am a decent journeyman coder, not a guru, and this helped me wrap my head around what is involved with concurrency. Concurrency is in many ways orthogonal to the rest of Java programming, so ...
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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, ...
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1994
THE design patterns book
This book is a classic and doesn't require any further presentations. It is THE Design Patterns bible and every OO programmer should read at least a couple of times.
The samples are in C++ and sometimes Smalltalk but that really doesn't change anything even if you ...
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)
Frederick P. Brooks
Addison-Wesley Professional, 1995
Software Development
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering is a book on software project management by Fred Brooks, whose central theme is that "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." This idea is known as Brooks's law, and is presented along with the ...
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Writing Effective Use Cases (Agile Software Development Series)
Alistair Cockburn
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2000
Good Investment
Alistair Cockburn has a gift for writing. His explanations are very easy to follow and the writing style makes it seem like you are reading novel. I tried a number of books on use cases and this is by far the best. It contains a number of different styles. I used this ...
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College Algebra (3rd Edition) (Beecher/Penna/Bittinger Series)
Judith A. Penna, Marvin L. Bittinger
Addison Wesley, 2007
Great book and self-explanatory
I used this book for an online class with little to no teacher support and was able to make it all the way through with an A. The examples are great and the descriptions easy to understand. This is a wonderful textbook.
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Advanced Windows Debugging (Addison-Wesley Microsoft Technology Series)
Mario Hewardt, Daniel Pravat
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2007
This is the book
This book has completely smashed every possible expectation I had when I set out to read it.
Let me put it simply. There comes a time in every software developers' life when he contemplates the age old question of, "If I were to be stranded on an island and I could ...
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Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions (Addison-Wesley ...
Gregor Hohpe, Bobby Woolf
Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003
Excellent book for Software Architect and Software Engineer
Many books have been written about SOA, but most of them are just about the theory of SOA. It's important for Software Architects and Software Engineers to understand the theory, but just knowing the theory is not enough to develop system utilizing SOA principles.
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Elementary Statistics (10th Edition) (MyStatLab Series)
Mario F. Triola
Addison Wesley, 2007
Perfect
Thank you for the Elementary Statistics book I had ordered everything came nicely package and this is the correct book my daughter needed. Great to deal with and came on time. Thank you very much. Amazon is a good company to use.
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