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What books should I buy?

Next month, when Amazon's quarterly period for their Associates program ends, I'll be getting a gift certificate for about $70. I figure this is enough to buy at least 2 books, maybe 3. I'd like to get back in the habit of reading some technical books, so I figured I'd ask for some recommendations from my readers. Here are some titles I'm considering:

Essential ASP.NET by Fritz Onion
Coder To Developers by Mike Gunderloy
Test-Driven Development in Microsoft .NET
Coding Slave by Bob Reselman
Code Complete 2nd Edition by Steve McConnell

I'm open to suggestions. I'm also looking for some good "enterprise development" and "architect" books but haven't heard of or seen any lately.

4 Comments

  • Personally, Essential ASP.NET (choose your language preference) and Code Complete 2ed (though this is a tough choice over Coder to Developer, another book I am quite fond of).

  • If you want to really stretch your mind: Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. Only programming book I've ever seen that I would describe as profound.

  • Domain Driven Design - Eric Evans.



    Why? Martin Fowler recommends it. I've got it, very architect driven book. Good.



    Code by Charles Petzold.



    I've got Essential ASP.NET in C# by F. Onion. Great book.

  • Code Complete 2, if it is anything like the first (I own it, but haven't read it) will be great.



    I wasn't big on Coding Slave. I borrowed it from a friend and read it in a couple of nights, but I'm just not seeing the impact that all these other people are. Maybe I'm missing something.



    DDD as Scott mentioned is great. If you haven't read Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Fowler, definitely pick that up too!

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