Blink Monitor » C++ http://blinkmonitor.com News on technology books in the Ottawa Library via RSS feed. First, click in the tag cloud below at the right. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 22:31:39 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The Art of Readable Code http://blinkmonitor.com/2011/11/the-art-of-coding/ http://blinkmonitor.com/2011/11/the-art-of-coding/#comments Sun, 27 Nov 2011 14:01:31 +0000 rleir http://blinkmonitor.com/?p=4702 The Art of Readable Code, Dustin Boswell, – 2011

Programmers will like this book.  Legendary O’Reilly quality, 250 pages.

]]> http://blinkmonitor.com/2011/11/the-art-of-coding/feed/ 0 API Design for C++ http://blinkmonitor.com/2011/10/api-design-for-c/ http://blinkmonitor.com/2011/10/api-design-for-c/#comments Tue, 11 Oct 2011 16:25:25 +0000 rleir http://blinkmonitor.com/?p=4574 Continue reading →]]> API Design for C++, Martin Reddy, – 2011

Programmers will want to read this. The author has experience with large systems at Pixar, but this book is not about animation. It is about software architecture and design. Here is the contents, and here is the author’s excellent blog. 400 pages.

]]> http://blinkmonitor.com/2011/10/api-design-for-c/feed/ 0 Programming in Objective-C http://blinkmonitor.com/2011/07/programming-in-objective-c/ http://blinkmonitor.com/2011/07/programming-in-objective-c/#comments Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:17:21 +0000 rleir http://blinkmonitor.com/?p=4233 Programming in Objective-C, Stephen Kochan, Addison-Wesley, 2011

Programmers working on iPhone apps will want to read this. No experience with C is needed, but you will gain mastery of Objective-C. 500 pages.

]]> http://blinkmonitor.com/2011/07/programming-in-objective-c/feed/ 0 iOS Recipes http://blinkmonitor.com/2011/06/ios-recipes/ http://blinkmonitor.com/2011/06/ios-recipes/#comments Sat, 18 Jun 2011 13:49:08 +0000 rleir http://blinkmonitor.com/?p=4130 Continue reading →]]> iOS Recipes – Tips and Tricks for Awesome Iphone and Ipad Apps, Matt Drance, Pragmatic Programmers, 2011

Programmers working on iPhone native apps will want to read this book. It is not for beginners, but others will find it useful, as common programming problems are presented, along with optimal solutions. 200 ages.

]]> http://blinkmonitor.com/2011/06/ios-recipes/feed/ 0 IPhone and IPad Apps http://blinkmonitor.com/2011/06/iphone-and-ipad-apps/ http://blinkmonitor.com/2011/06/iphone-and-ipad-apps/#comments Wed, 01 Jun 2011 13:50:55 +0000 rleir http://blinkmonitor.com/?p=4062 IPhone and IPad Apps for Absolute Beginners, Rory Lewis,  2010

New programmers will find this book to be a very gentle introduction. 300 pages.

]]> http://blinkmonitor.com/2011/06/iphone-and-ipad-apps/feed/ 0 Multicore Application Programming http://blinkmonitor.com/2011/05/multicore-application-programming/ http://blinkmonitor.com/2011/05/multicore-application-programming/#comments Sun, 01 May 2011 11:34:50 +0000 rleir http://blinkmonitor.com/?p=3879 Continue reading →]]> Multicore Application Programming For Windows, Linux, and Oracle Solaris, Darryl Gove, Addison-Wesley (2011)

Contents:
Hardware, processes, and threads
Coding for performance
Identifying opportunities for parallelism
Synchronization and data sharing
Using POSIX threads
Windows threading
Using automatic parallelization and OpenMP
Handcoded synchronization and sharing
Scaling with multicore processors
Other parallelization technologies
400 pages.

]]> http://blinkmonitor.com/2011/05/multicore-application-programming/feed/ 0 Beginning IOS 4 http://blinkmonitor.com/2011/02/beginning-ios-4/ http://blinkmonitor.com/2011/02/beginning-ios-4/#comments Sat, 26 Feb 2011 11:46:47 +0000 rleir http://blinkmonitor.com/?p=3733 Continue reading →]]> book coverBeginning IOS 4 Application Development By Lee, Wei-Meng (- 2010)

For iPhone programmers. This book is nicely produced, with colored code examples. The code is of course Objective C, which takes a bit of a mind shift if you are used to C++. 600 pages.

]]> http://blinkmonitor.com/2011/02/beginning-ios-4/feed/ 0 Head First Iphone and Ipad http://blinkmonitor.com/2010/10/head-first-iphone-and-ipad/ http://blinkmonitor.com/2010/10/head-first-iphone-and-ipad/#comments Fri, 08 Oct 2010 18:53:30 +0000 rleir http://blinkmonitor.com/?p=3239 book coverHead First Iphone and Ipad Development A Learner’s Guide to Creating Objective-c Applications for the Iphone and Ipad, Tracey Pilone, – 2010

]]> http://blinkmonitor.com/2010/10/head-first-iphone-and-ipad/feed/ 0 Beginning Ipad Development http://blinkmonitor.com/2010/10/beginning-ipad-development/ http://blinkmonitor.com/2010/10/beginning-ipad-development/#comments Fri, 08 Oct 2010 18:41:25 +0000 rleir http://blinkmonitor.com/?p=3226 Continue reading →]]> book coverBeginning Ipad Development for Iphone Developers – Mastering the Ipad Sdk, Jack Nutting, 2010

For programmers developing iPad apps. There are differences between the iPad and iPhone which require some redesign of iPhone apps.   With example code in Objective-C.  250 pages.

]]> http://blinkmonitor.com/2010/10/beginning-ipad-development/feed/ 0 IPad Application Development http://blinkmonitor.com/2010/10/ipad-application-development/ http://blinkmonitor.com/2010/10/ipad-application-development/#comments Fri, 08 Oct 2010 18:15:08 +0000 admin http://blinkmonitor.com/?p=3203 book coverIPad Application Development for Dummies, Neal Goldstein, Wiley, 2010

Objective-C and Xcode. Well written, 450 pages.

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