I'm a little sad that no-one is mentioning the seminal works of our field, e.g.

The Pragmatic Programmer, Hunt & Thomas

The Mythical Man Month, Brooks

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Abelson & Sussman

General and Logical Theory of Automata, von Neumann

Art of Computer Programming, Knuth
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools, Aho & Sethi

The Practice of Programming, Kernighan & Pike

The C Programming Language, Kernighan & Ritchie

Computer Organization and Design, Patterson & Hennessy

Peopleware, De Marco & Lister

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, Tufte

The Design of Everyday Things, Norman

etc.

Fox
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On 19 February 2015 at 13:36, David Turner <[address removed]> wrote:

These would keep me happy on the island as long as I had good wifi and a high spec machine on which to code...

1. Atomic Scala
http://www.atomicscala.com

2. Scala for the Impatient
https://typesafe.com/resources/e-books

3. Play for Scala
http://typesafe.com/resources/e-book/play-for-scala

On Thu, 19 Feb 2015 at 12:53, Pedro Lopez <[address removed]> wrote:

Hi Simon,

I like the idea.

A book that I personally enjoyed was "Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software" by Michael T. Nygard.

A book that I would like to read when I have time is "Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation" by Jez Humble and David Farley.

A book that I will probably read next is the early edition of "Building Microservices" by Sam Newman that Nginx is giving away for free now.

Although for this kind of dynamics, maybe "Seven Databases in Seven Weeks", "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks" or the newer version "Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks" might fit better.

There are some authors in the LJC, what about one of their books? "Java 8 Lambdas" by Richard Warburton springs to mind, for example.

Hope this helps.

Kind regards,

Pedro Lopez

On 19 February 2015 at 09:27, Simon Maple <[address removed]> wrote:

Hey,

We're going to be kicking off a book reading club thing on the vJUG soon (read a couple of chapters a week & meetup on a hangout with an expert to chat, ask questions etc and discuss) and I was wondering which books to start with. I thought I'd ask the LJC which technical books (and perhaps non technical but would like to start with the techie stuff) you have read and really found valuable to your day to day work.

So, if you could take 3 tech books on a desert island, which would they be? :)

Si

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