Recommended Reading List for Developers [pdf]

https://noggin.intel.com/sites/default/files/Intel-Recommended-Reading-List_1H14_0.pdf

by nkurz • 13 years ago

161 60 13 years ago

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It reminds me of the blog post: "A Complete Understanding is No Longer Possible" [http://prog21.dadgum.com/129.html]

lowglow• 13 years ago

I think we now have to settle for "a pretty good understanding of a lot of things, just never the things you immediately need."

chrissmithuk• 13 years ago

This is why I still like old Unix systems (early BSD/v7 etc). It is possible to get a complete understanding of the system in a relatively short amount of time and they're still pretty productive.

xv6 reflects this from an educational perspective: http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/6.828/2012/xv6.html

nashequilibrium• 13 years ago

Reading the link felt like watching a movie that gets interesting and stops midway. I wanted a bit more, i hope the author expands on the article & turns it into a longform one.

polskibus• 13 years ago

I am slightly disappointed by the list - for example C# threading is a book from 2003 and .NET has evolved a lot since then (Task, async, etc.). There are other, more recent books that represent current state of art in C#. Perhaps the reading list shouldnt state the year for which it is intended for?

jl00080• 13 years ago

The more current one is a free web resource http://www.albahari.com/threading/. You maybe come across that already. I like it.

m_st• 13 years ago

Thank you so much for that link! I didn't know this site yet.

radicalbyte• 13 years ago

Concurrent Programming on Windows by J. Duffy is a great place to start, followed by the latests edition of In Depth or Nutshell..

chid• 13 years ago

Are there any other recommended reading lists? (For example for web development/windows programming etc.)

a3n3• 13 years ago

I am certain you will find any number of lists, narrow and broad, on Reddit, GoodReads, LibraryThing, O'Reilly (blog posts), Amazon listmania, StackOverflow, HN etc.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/community-content-search/results/re...

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=reddit+web+programming

Some stackoverflow tags have a really good info tab, e.g. http://stackoverflow.com/tags/scala/info

Others, not so much: http://stackoverflow.com/tags/web/info

Hacker News: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=%22reading+lis...

benwen• 13 years ago

Looks like C++ got a bit of an upgrade in the canon...

The Programming Language Bjarne Stroustrup

ISBN 9780321563842

pjmlp2• 13 years ago

Besides the update on the official book, Bjarne has written a new one that teaches how to write modern and secure C++, instead of using the unsafe C underpinnings.

A Tour of C++

ISBN-10: 0321958314 ISBN-13: 978-0321958310

http://www.stroustrup.com/Tour.html

deletes• 13 years ago

Planning to switch from c to c++; I'm really exited to read this.

@commenter: The word switch doesn't have to rely on relevance between subjects it is referring to. It has more to do with the speed of changing the direction.

blt• 13 years ago

I laughed. Glad somebody else noticed that.

jdimov3• 13 years ago

A surprisingly low-quality, diluted, conformist list of mostly boring and outdated books. You can't expect much innovation to come from a team reading this. I scanned through the list 3 times looking for something of value, but nothing caught my eye. Disappointed by Intel.

D4N_• 13 years ago

What would you recommend instead?

jdimov3• 13 years ago

See, that's part of the problem. It's not at all clear what this list aimed to accomplish, which explains the low quality of the result. You want me to recommend a book? Sure. Read Hemingway.

zxcdw• 13 years ago

Define low-quality, boring and outdated in this context, and provide alternatives.

I am waiting.

jdimov3• 13 years ago

Keep waiting.

camperman2• 13 years ago

Well, Java Concurrency in Practice certainly isn't low quality but it is boring and outdated. An alternative would be Clojure For the Brave And True :)

dobbsbob• 13 years ago

Android books from 2012 for one. Alternative would be recent Linux for Embedded Systems or anything else besides teaching you ICS API

deevus• 13 years ago

Code Complete is a great book.

panzagl• 13 years ago

Sorry bro, not everyone is beasting out JavaScript.

mwfunk• 13 years ago

"Conformist"? Is this high school or something?

ACow_Adonis• 13 years ago

Am I to presume that this list carries as much validity as most other "recommended reading" lists?

/which is to say, books which most working in the field didn't read to get into the field, don't read during the actual job, and probably aren't going to read except maybe as a reference chapter here or there?

lostcolony2• 13 years ago

Yes. I looked at the software dev list; I only skimmed it, but none that I saw were books I read, or books I'd care to read, despite being in the field for 4 years now, and being a fairly passionate learner in terms of new techniques, technologies, languages, and methodologies.

EDIT: Correction; I see Code Complete.

cgh• 13 years ago

With only four years' experience I'd expect you to know little about any of the fields on this list. I'm surprised you found nothing of interest, unless you are only focused on web stuff.

minikomi2• 13 years ago

What's everyone's recommended readings? I'm halfway through thinking forth at the moment and want to keep the ball rolling!

a3n3• 13 years ago

I'm reading Programming in Scala. The free online, out of date but good enough to help you decide to go further or not first edition. I have the scala repl open alongside. Never programmed in Scala, don't know that I ever will, but it's interesting. http://www.artima.com/pins1ed/

I'm also re-reading Niven's Ringworld series, as a bridgehead to the rest of his Known Space material; I've never gone beyond Ringworld before. I'm in the third book at the moment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Known_Space

mindcrime• 13 years ago

What's everyone's recommended readings? I'm halfway through thinking forth at the moment and want to keep the ball rolling!

Not so much hardcore technology stuff, but here's a reading list I put together a while back, aimed at IT executives, CIOs, etc.

http://fogbeam.blogspot.com/2013/05/10-essential-reads-for-c...

http://fogbeam.blogspot.com/2013/05/essential-reading-for-it...

Not on that list (I had not read it at the time), but one I'd highly recommend is Eric Beinhocker's The Origin of Wealth. http://www.amazon.com/The-Origin-Wealth-Remaking-Economics/d...

minikomi2• 13 years ago

Very cool. Not a topic I'd usually peruse so I appreciate the suggestions!

0xdeadbeefbabe• 13 years ago

http://www.offete.com/files/zeneForth.htm

dded2• 13 years ago

For a beginner's introduction to C++, I really liked Koenig and Moo's Accelerated C++. It's from 2000, I don't know if there's a newer edition.

Speaking of Koenig, I also like his C Traps and Pitfalls (1989).

Sedgewick's Algorithms is excellent. My copy is 30 years old, but I know there are newer editions. I believe it's multi-volume now.

I liked two by Richard Stevens: Unix Network Programming and Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment.

And I like Bentley's Programming Pearls.

These are all old, but I'm old. :-)

Addenda: I've really liked everything I've read by Brian Kernighan. K&R is my favorite programming book bar none.

Data Reduction and Error Analysis for the Physical Sciences by Bevington and Robinson. Very approachable introduction.

div grad curl and all that by Schey. Read it before taking Fields, instead of after like I did.

eliasmacpherson3• 13 years ago

I know people say this all the time, but I nearly did not click the link, because it said scribd.

It turns out it's a pdf served at this address, along with another link to scribd in the brackets:

https://noggin.intel.com/sites/default/files/Intel-Recommend...

"I think the title should read [pdf] and [scribd]"

noselasd• 13 years ago

I'll bite - what's wrong with scribd ? (besides the fact you might "stumble" upon documents you're not supposed to read)

eliasmacpherson3• 13 years ago

It's still very slow. They have improved in this regard, but the original performance was so bad that saying that is not a compliment. There's a pdf viewer built in to firefox now, which in my opinion is superior. With noscript, the text is not formatted correctly. With noscript off there's a banner across the screen, "download full view" etc. This banner is rendered correctly in chromium but not my version of iceweasel, where it is about an inch down from the address bar and obscures the text. Pages after the first one don't appear until some time after scrolling down. Finally scribd want me to sign in to download a pdf. I'm not sure what you mean by "stumble across documents I'm not supposed to read".

acqq• 13 years ago

The last time I've checked, the worst thing was that it demands money once the document is old enough(!) Then, it required from you to have an account just to download the document. Finally, it didn't work without Javascript. For me, instead of adding value, it reduces it, so I decided to avoid it to save my time.

I know Scribd is a Y Combinator's company.

_pmf_• 13 years ago

I'll bite - what's wrong with scribd ?

For a platform that is supposed to enable the user to read documents online, it fails by not enabling the user to, you know, read documents online. Oh, sure, sometimes I might get lucky and be able to read the first 4 of 37 slides without the application stopping to respond or crashing my tab.

tobiasu• 13 years ago

JavaScript, holds PDFs hostage, adds zero value (my browser can display PDFs just fine, thank you very much), operates a business based on copyright violation.

fauigerzigerk• 13 years ago

It used to have a really obnoxious and entirely useless UI around the actual document. But recently links to scribd point to plain PDF so I made my peace with it.

peterjmag• 13 years ago

I think moving the scribd link to the right of the source domain might help. Something like this:

http://i.imgur.com/PAElgoK.png

http://i.imgur.com/GPa0DS8.png (Standard browser zoom level)

That makes it a bit more clear that it's a different source for the same document.

eliasmacpherson3• 13 years ago

I agree that that would be way better.

Cederfjard• 13 years ago

Isn't this done automatically with all submitted PDFs? At least I seem to recall that there is some integration between HN and Scribd (YC '06 incidentally, which might explain it), but there's nothing in the FAQ or anything.

eliteraspberrie• 13 years ago

An alternative is Google Viewer: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=https://noggin.intel.com/...

prav• 13 years ago

There are some good books in there for embedded/firmware engineers. "Making Embedded Systems: Design Patterns for Great Software" and "Multi-Core Embedded Systems" look interesting.

outside1234• 13 years ago

No reading on Bluetooth Low Energy?

lostcolony2• 13 years ago

I assume these are intended specifically for Intel employees (i.e., targeting technologies and areas they have internally), rather than for any positions located elsewhere. And there, possibly meant more as a reference than a teaching tool.

jdreaver• 13 years ago

On page 4: > The Programming Language, 4th Edition > Bjarne Stroustrup

I guess they love C++ if it's the programming language!

dded2• 13 years ago

Hennessy and Patterson is in its 5th edition. That makes me feel old. I can only vouch for earlier editions, but this is a good book.

(I'm only familiar with the 1st and 2nd editions of this book, and of the two, I greatly prefer the 1st. The 2nd has a lot more information (and of course is somewhat more up-to-date), but that only seems to hide the more significant information. More complete is not always better.)

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