[pm-h] Looking for suggestions on new books

Mark Allen mrallen1 at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 26 08:52:13 PST 2016


The best Perl book I ever read -- and one of the best general programming technique books -- was Higher Order Perl. It's available as a free ebook now, but still in print if you want a hard copy.
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    On Tuesday, January 26, 2016 10:37 AM, B. Estrade via Houston <houston at pm.org> wrote:
 

 My top recommendations, other than bdf's Mastering Perl (exceptional):   
   - Effective Perl Programming (Schwartz, bdf)   

   - Object Oriented Perl (Conway) - really a fundamental read
   - Perl Best Practices (Conway)
The above books have in common that they don't read like books, but rather you may pick and choose as your need/mood suites you.
In the same vein, the Perl Advent Calendar series on the web is also really good to read.
Knuth's volume of books give you massive nerd cred, and in fact I own the set. One day I will go through it all. One day. ;)
My #1 recommendation for a mind blowing, non-Perl book is Wolfram's A New Kind of Science.  I read it cover to cover when it came out in the early 2000s. I never bought into the Wolfram-hate on such places as /., and I recommend you do not either if you choose it as a read.  Taken for what it is, it has the potential to change your perspective on computing on its heads.
Other books I can recommend without hesitation:   
   - Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques (Gray)   

   - An Introduction to Database Systems (Date)   

   - A Quarter Century of UNIX (Salus)   

   - FreeBSD Mastery: Storage Essentials, FreeBSD Mastery: ZFS (both by Lucas)
   - High Performance MySQL (Brian Schwartz, et. al)   

   - Unix Power Tools, Third Edition (Powers, et. al)   

I have more, but this rounds out the list of must haves for me.
Brett

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:50 AM, Robert Stone via Houston <houston at pm.org> wrote:

Greetings,
I'm almost certain the book about refactoring code you are referring to is "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code" by Fowler, Beck and the rest of the brain trust.
http://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Design-Existing-Code/dp/0201485672
Great book, highly recommended.  I read about the first half of it chapter by chapter and the rest of it is more reference for types of refactoring that you dive into when you need them ( Move Method, Replace Conditional with Polymorphism, etc).  I recommend the actual book rather than the kindle/ebook as the code sample are formatted rather poorly in the digital version.
Though quite pricey, at our Tips and Tricks meeting Julian mentioned the four book series "The Art of Computer Programming" by Knuth.
http://www.amazon.com/Computer-Programming-Volumes-1-4A-Boxed/dp/0321751043

This is an epic series, very math heavy and very deep and I've been really digging it.
In addition to these, I've been re-reading the perl classics and it's amazing how each time I do so I understand more and more and find myself saying "I didn't know you could do that!"
Learning Perl - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1449303587Intermediate Perl - http://www.amazon.com/Intermediate-Perl-Randal-L-Schwartz/dp/1449393098Mastering Perl - http://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Perl-brian-d-foy/dp/144939311X
Best Regards,Robert Stone

On Tue, Jan 26, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Trac Taylor via Houston <houston at pm.org> wrote:

Hey everyone
I getting some funds from work for new books.  I know in some of the past meetings, we have discussed some books to read.  These don't have to be Perl books.  The books do need to be about programming or somewhere along those lines.
Wade, I remember you telling me a book about refactoring code, which sounded interesting but I dont remember the title/author.  And Julian talked about the algorithms book 2 months ago.  

ThanksTrac Taylor


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