DevaiahDoni

Let's maintain a must-have list of books for Programmers/Tech? Leads, etc... We could do lists in various categories Here are a few suggestions on the technical side. Please participate and edit this list. After we hone the list down, I'll format it nicer and have links to Amazon or Bookpool.

Object-Oriented Design

• Object Solutions (Booch) [Amazon]
• Design Patterns (Gang of Four) [Amazon]
• Object Oriented Design Heuristics (Riel) [Amazon]
• UML Distilled 3rd Edition (Fowler) [Amazon]
• Analysis Patterns (Fowler) [Amazon]
• Object Technology: A Manager's Guide 2nd Edition (Taylor) - great for team leads [Amazon]

Developing good code

• Refactoring (Martin Fowler)
• The Pragmatic Programmer (Hunt & Thomas) [Amazon]
• Test-Driven Development By Example (Beck)

Development Process

• Lean Software Development (Mary Poppendieck & Tom Poppendieck) [Amazon]
• Agile Software Development (Alistair Cockburn) [Amazon]
• The Mythical Man-Month (Brooks) [Amazon]
• PeopleWare? (DeMarco? & Lister) [Amazon]
• Creating a Software Engineering Culture (Karl E. Wiegers) [Amazon]
• Software Project Survival Guide (Steve McConnell?) [Amazon]

Java

• Java Cookbook (Darwit) [Amazon] [BookPool]
• Effective Java (Bloch) [Amazon] [BookPool]
• Practical Java (Haggar) [Amazon] [BookPool]
• Java Design Patterns (Cooper) [Amazon] - Good Java examples, a nice companion to the GoF? book for Java Developers
• Applied Java Patterns (Stelting, Maassen) [Amazon]

C#

• Applied Microsoft .NET Framework Programming (Jeffrey Richter) [Amazon] [BookPool]
• Programming C# (Jesse Liberty) [Amazon] [BookPool]
• Professional C# (3rd Edition) [Amazon] [BookPool]

SQL & Database

• Oracle SQL: 101 Frequently Asked Question (Lewis & Sirota - old but still valuable)
• Relational Database: Selected Writings (Chris Date - if you want to understand relational, you must have it)
• Case Method: Entity Relationship Modeling (Barker) - the authority on ERM
• Data Model Patterns (Hay)
• Oracle 10G The Complete Reference (Kevin Loney & George Koch) [Amazon]

XML, XSL, etc.

• Essential XML Quick Reference (Box) [Amazon] [BookPool]
• XML Design Handbook (Bonneau) [Amazon]
• XML Elements of Style (St. Laurent) [Amazon]
• XSL/T Quickly (Ducharme) [Amazon] [BookPool]

Unix

• Portable Shell Programming (Blinn) [Amazon]

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