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its not a book, but its awhole lot of comic books, but read transformers.

i study java as well.. in our class we are using a book called starting out with java and its written by dan gaddis. the book is explains things well but it keeps changing its programming style and it throws me off big time. im so confused..

Hi,
im new to java programming!
this is the 3rd semester (starts tomorrow!!)
and last semester i took data structures and algorithms and this semester
i have to write a game and im not good in java programming but i really llike it!! i know its a bit weird but what books could really help me get into it ( the programming i wanna program as if im writing my name) ????

what really works with me is practice soo????????

thanks for the great article!!!

peteyv, there are many excellent tutorial books for C++ available, and as it is not used en masse for development, many of them are availailable at super super discounted prices. You can get something like "master C++ in 21 days' (ha ha ha ha ha...let me know how that works for you, should you try it), but there are legit programming references such as the C++ Developers Bible, which are excellent syntatical and vocabulary references; however, if you are a true novice programmer, it would be wise to first 'get your head' around the concepts of OOA&P as the language and syntax will avail you nothing if you do not understand the fundamental concepts of OOP....you will be able to write code, but should anyone ever have to come behind you to perform modifications or updates to your code, they will likely seek you out and shoot your porch light out each year for the remainder of your life!!!! A word to the wise from an old SE...take it for what it is worth.

Online edition of "brave new world"
http://www.huxley.net/bnw/index.html

OK... I GOTTA talk about this! If you've both seen the movie AND read the book you've got to know that Bladerunner has very little in common with Electric Sheep. Electric Sheep DOES belong here. But the book is not *about* bladerunners. It's about what makes humans *human* (Dick's thesis cites "empathy" as being the true and only Turing Test) and why a *machine* can never be designed to *feel*. (The "empathy" thing.) Thus humans have replaced idol worship (religion as we know it today) with "empathy boxes" around which they regularly gather to *bond*.

I so agree all of these are needed

I don't think the list is meant to be comprehensive, or give insight into understanding software. Rather, the list is intended to be books you can read in order to understand the people who understand software. It's a list of books that make up (part of) the culture of the geek. If you've read these books, you might be a geek. Of course there are other books that we find interesting, and that could be included on the list, but these are many of the more important ones. Think of it as a sort of instruction guide for non-geeks.