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Chris’s Reading List

C

  • C Programming Language (2nd Edition) by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie
Java
  • Java Programming Language, The (4th Edition) by Ken Arnold, James Gosling and David Holmes
  • Thinking in Java (4th Edition) by Bruce Eckel
  • Advanced Effective Java (2nd Edition) by Joshua Bloch
  • Advanced Java Concurrency in Practice by Brian Goetz, Tim Peierls, Joshua Bloch and Joseph Bowbeer
Ruby
  • Learn to Program, Second Edition (The Facets of Ruby Series) by Chris Pine
  • Programming Ruby 1.9: The Pragmatic Programmers’ Guide (Facets of Ruby) by Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler and Andy Hunt
Algorithms
  • Algorithms in Java, Parts 1-4 (3rd Edition) (Pts.1-4) by Robert Sedgewick
Testing
  • Test Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck
Software Design Advanced
  • Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides
  • Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code by Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant and William Opdyke
  • Refactoring to Patterns by Joshua Kerievsky
The Enterprise Advanced
  • Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler
  • Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions by Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf
Web
  • Agile Web Development with Rails (Pragmatic Programmers) by Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson
  • Advanced Restful Web Services by Leonard Richardson, Sam Ruby and David Heinemeier Hansson
Methodology
  • Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (2nd Edition) by Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres
  • Agile Software Development with Scrum (Series in Agile Software Development) by Ken
  • Schwaber and Mike Beedle
SQL
  • Joe Celko’s SQL for Smarties, Fourth Edition: Advanced SQL Programming (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) by Joe Celko
37 Signals
  • Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
  • Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application by Jason Fried, Heinemeier David Hansson and Matthew Linderman
Collections
  • Pragmatic Unit Testing in Java with JUnit by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas
  • Pragmatic Project Automation: How to Build, Deploy, and Monitor Java Apps by Mike Clark
  • Pragmatic Version Control Using Git (Pragmatic Starter Kit) by Travis Swicegood
Pragmatism
  • The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas