Books, books, books

I have just ordered 3 books which I think will help me a lot. During my time programming so far I haven’t read any books, I have only experimented myself and read blogs, documentations and such. So I think it could be good to broaded my view by trying another source of information.

The books

The first book I bought was Code Complete 2nd edition which is a book about best practises and techniques written by Steve McConnell. In my opinion these subjects are something which is always good to read about, even if you are well experienced.

The second book I bought was Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software written by the GOF. Don’t worry, I’m not going to become a design pattern zealot! I think that design patterns are powerful tools, when used when they are needed, and not always.

The third book I bought was The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography written by Simon Singh. Even though this book might not be a hundred percent directed to programming I think that cryptography is very interesting and good to learn. Especially when you aren’t working with it mainly on a daily basis. I think that when you do different things from what you usually do, that’s when you learn new useful things.

Soon!

I’m looking forward until I get a text saying that the package with the books have been delivered. After I have read all the books I will probably give a quick review of the books, which you can look forward to.

Until then – Cheers
Richard Zetterberg