Greatest Programming Books (Must Have!)

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There are other nice books on:

(1) Visual Basic (6.0 & .Net)

(2) .Net

(3) ASP.Net

(4) Algorithms & Data Structures

(5) Microsoft SQL Server

(6) Game Programming

(7) Python

( Oracle

(9) Linux

(10) Perl

(11) Delphi

(12) Cisco

(13) C++

Isn't it funny. The best programming books happen to be Java and C# books. . And I am supposed to be in the programming section of this forum. Whooof. I am disappointed.
Firstly, Java is a language that was created for AVERAGE programmers(James Gosling), so the  best programming books will never be about Java. So if you wake up from your slumber and decide to learn real programming, choose a language with composable features(Or should I say dynamic with lambda, closures, continuation and lots of metaprogramming)

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N.B: This is one of the greatest books in programming (Even your professor will agree)

How do we get some of these books?

@ebot (a sanu  ):
Not to take away from any of the books listed above but one must also ask, "greatest by whose definition and on what basis?"

For example the "C# threading handbook" receives only 2.5 stars on amazon based on 6 reviews (and tons of "xx" of "yy" people found this useful (where "xx" carried the majority vote in many cases).  Based on personal experience I have discovered that the one person who gave a book 1 star in amazon is very likely the person who most identifies with me and has helped immensely in my purchasing decisions).

Again, not to take away from the post but one must always carry out their own independent research to verify things to be true for themselves.  The aforementioned books could be "good" or "great" but not necessarily "the greatest".

Excellent point! Some of these books are good, and some are OK. These are obviously in the OP's opinion.  You have to do your own due diligence and determine what works for you. For example, In the case of Java Development, In addition to Thinking In Java, I find very thorough, and will always recommend the following books. Ivor Hortons Beginning Java, Sun's Java Tutorial, Heads First Java (or any heads first book), Java in a nutshell. And it does not mean they are the greatest books out there.  There are way too many books out there and what works for one person may not neccesarily work for the other.

@yawa
The books are awesome, just admit it. & nobody is trying to chop anybody's head.


We are all speaking the same language, useful, helpful or whatever, it still boils down to being great.

for beginners and intermediates,i have a list of e-books that might interest UHere i a list of some of them:

C++ LANGUAGE
 
C++ How to Program, Fifth Edition By H. M. Deitel - Deitel & Associates, Inc., P. J. Deitel - Deitel & Associates, Inc.
Publisher:Prentice hall. Publishing year: 2005
 
Herb Schildt's C++ Programming Cookbook by Herb Schildt
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing year: 2008
 
Ivor Horton's Beginning Visual C++® 2008 by Ivor Horton
Publisher: Wiley Publishing Inc Publishing year:2008
 
The C++ programming Language,3rd edition by Bjarne Stroustrup(The creator of C++)
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company Publishing year:1997
 
Borland® C++ Builder™:The Complete Reference by Herb Schildt
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing year: 2001
 
 
C# LANGUAGE
 
Beginning C# Game programming by Ron Penton
Publisher:Thomson Course Technology PTR. Publishing Year:2005
 
Beginning C# 2008,From Novice to Professional by Christian Gross
Publisher: Apress Publishing Year:2007
 
Beginning C# 3.0 : An Introduction to Object Oriented Programming by Jack Purdum.
Publisher: Wiley Publishing Inc Publishing year:2007
 
Beginning Microsoft® Visual C#® 2008 by Karli Watson,Christian Nagel,Jacob Hammer Pedersen,Jon.D.Reid,Morgan Skinner,Eric White
Publisher: Wiley Publishing Inc Publishing year:2008
 
Expert Service-Oriented Architecture in C# 2005, Second Edition by Jeffrey Hasan and Mauricio Duran
Publisher: Apress Publishing Year:2006
 
 
VISUAL BASIC.NET( VB.NET) LANGUAGE
 
 
Visual Basic.Net: The Complete Reference by Jeffrey .R. Shapiro
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Publishing year: 2002
 
Beginning Visual Basic® 2005 by Thearon Willis and Bryan Newsome
Publisher: Wiley Publishing Inc. Publishing year:2006
 
Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic 2008 in 24 Hours: Complete Starter Kit by James Foxall
Publisher:Sams Publishing year: 2008
 
 
Professional Visual Basic® 2008 by Bill Evjen,Billy Hollis,Bill Sheldon,Kent Sharkey
Publisher: Wiley Publishing Inc. Publishing year:2008
 
GENERAL SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT BOOKS
 
Design Patterns for Dummies® by Steve Holzner,PhD
Publisher: Wiley Publishing Inc. Publishing year:2006
 
The Art of Multiprocessor Programming by Maurice Herlihy and Nir Shavit
Publisher:Elsevier Inc. Publishing year: 2008
 
Software Engineering for Modern Web Applications: Methodologies and Technologies by Daniel N. Brandon
Publisher: Information Science Reference Publishing year: 2008
 
 
There are also e-books on JAVA,ASP.NET,Web Development books,ADO.NET (2.0 AND 3.5),ORACLE Database Programming (9i and 10g) and AJAX.If there is any of the e-books i listed above that you are interested in or any your library needs,you can contact me through my number,07035030164 or through my e-mail address: randik_5@yahoo.com at very flat rates! Thank you.