Posts Tagged ‘C++’

Objective-C

Friday, April 23rd, 2010

book coverObjective-C / Steven Holzner, Peachpit, 2010

Programmers will find this flavour of C quite different from C++. You can use it on Linux or Windows, but it is mostly used for the Mac or iPhone. This very readable book will help a beginner succeed at writing useful programs. 200 pages.

Art of Concurrency

Monday, January 4th, 2010

book coverThe Art of Concurrency / Clay Breshears, O’Reilly, 2009

All programmers will want to read this. 300 pages.

1 – Want to go Faster? Raise Your Hands if You Want to go Faster!
2 – Concurrent or not Concurrent?
3 – Proving Correctness and Measuring Performance
4 – Eight Simple Rules for Designing Multithreaded Applications
5 – Threading Libraries
6 – Parallel Sum and Prefix Scan
7 – Mapreduce
8 – Sorting
9 – Searching
10 – Graph Algorithms
11 – Threading Tools

Elements of Programming

Wednesday, November 25th, 2009

book coverElements of Programming / Alexander Stepanov, Addison-Wesley, 2009

An advanced book on software design, with examples in C++. It is highly recommended by Bjarne Stroustrup. 250 pages, hardcover.

The algorithm design manual

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

The algorithm design manual / Steven S. Skiena, Springer, 2008

“This is the most approachable book on algorithms that I have” — Megan Squire. Examples in C, 700 pages, hardcover

The art of multiprocessor programming

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

The art of multiprocessor programming / Maurice Herlihy, Nir Shavit, Elsevier/Morgan Kaufmann, 2008

This book is destined to become a classic, and is required reading for all Java and C++ programmers.  It covers the principles and practice of programming `multicore` computers. 500 pages.

Code quality

Wednesday, May 20th, 2009

Code quality : the open source perspective / Diomidis Spinellis, Addison-Wesley, 2006

Here is an excellent book for Java and C++ programmers. It is the sequel to ‘Code Reading’. 500 pages. “It’s a very dense book, with something to think about in every sentence. If you carefully absorb everything it has to say and manage to implement it, you will be a programming wizard.” — Elizabeth Zwicky

Expert MySQL

Saturday, May 16th, 2009

Expert MySQL / Charles A. Bell, APress, 2007

Here is a book on the internals of MySQL, which will be useful when you want to improve or extend it. The book should also be interesting to you if you are planning to create a complex server app like MySQL. Or maybe you want to embed MySQL? I like this book, though the text is repetitive in places. 500 pages.

The art of debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse

Monday, March 30th, 2009

The art of debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse / by Norman Matloff, No Starch Press, 2008

This book is important reading for anyone programming on Linux in C++, Java, Perl, or Python. It is very readable with 250 pages.

How to think about algorithms

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

How to think about algorithms / Jeff Edmonds, Cambridge University Press, 2008

Here is a CS textbook for advanced undergraduate courses which is more readable than most. Apply its concepts to make your programs correct and fast.  450 pages.

Cocoa programming for Mac OS X for dummies

Saturday, March 28th, 2009

Cocoa programming for Mac OS X for dummies / by Erick Tejkowski, Wiley, 2009

Here is GUI application programming for the MAC. Learn the Cocoa IDE and a bit about programming in Objective C. The author gives lots of practical advice and some code examples in 375 pages.