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I get a lot of requests from readers about which books are best for learning MFC, ASP, ATL, etc., but with hundreds of books coming out each year, and technology moving ahead in leaps and bounds, keeping up with what’s best is hard. Which books have helped you the most?

Here’s a list of faves sent in by readers. If you are just starting out in the industry then don’t get lured into buying only books that deal with the language you are working in. Read books on how to program. You will save you and your employer a lot of stress. The “Programming Discipline and Design” section below lists a bunch of great books worth reading.

Programming Discipline and Design

Writing Solid Code – Steve Maguire图书推荐-冯金伟博客园 Mythical Man-Month – Frederick P. Brooks Jr图书推荐-冯金伟博客园 Code Complete – Steve McConnell图书推荐-冯金伟博客园 The Art of Computer Programming – Knuth Algorithms – Robert Sedgewick Debugging Applications – John Robbins Taligent’s Guide to Designing Programs – Taligent Design Patterns – Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides The Career Programmer: Guerilla Tactices for an Imperfect World (Apress) – Christoper Duncan Unite The Tribes – Christopher Duncan Advanced Windows Debugging – Mario Hewardt, Daniel Pravat Windows® Internals: Including Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, Fifth Edition (Pro Developer) – Mark Russinovich, David A. Solomon, Alex Ionescu The Pragmatic Programmer – Andrew Hunt & David Thomas图书推荐-冯金伟博客园 The Psychology of Computer Programming – Gerald Weinberg图书推荐-冯金伟博客园 Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices – Robert C. Martin图书推荐-冯金伟博客园 Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship – Robert C. Martin图书推荐-冯金伟博客园 The Art of Unit Testing: With Examples in .Net – Roy Osherove图书推荐-冯金伟博客园 Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture – Martin Fowler图书推荐-冯金伟博客园 Domain-Specific Languages – Martin Fowler图书推荐-冯金伟博客园 Continuous Delivery – Martin Fowler图书推荐-冯金伟博客园 Application Architecture Guide, 2nd EditionMicrosoft patterns & practices The Developer’s <code>Ka Wai Cheung An Introduction to Software Architecture – Ka Wai Cheung Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software Eric Evans图书推荐-冯金伟博客园

C / C++

The C Programming Language (Prentice Hall) – Kernigan and Ritchie The C++ Programming Language – Bjarne Stroustroup Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++ – Bjarne Stroustroup Effective and More Effective C++ – Scott Meyers Inside Visual C++ – David J. Kruglinski C++ How to Program – H. M. Deitel, P. J. Deitel Thinking in C++ (2nd Ed) – Bruce Eckel

C#

A Programmer’s Introduction to C#, 2nd edition (Apress) – Eric Gunnerson Inside C#, 2nd edition (Microsoft Press) – Tom Archer Component-Based Development with Visual C# (M&T books) – Ted Faison C# Essentials, 2nd edition (O’Reilly) – Ben Albahari, Peter Drayton & Brad Merrill C# in Depth – Jon Skeet图书推荐-冯金伟博客园 CLR via C#, 3rd Edition – Jeffrey Richter C# Programming Language (Covering C# 4.0) – Anders Hejlsberg Programming Entity Framework – Julia Lerman C# 5.0 In a Nutshell: The Definitive Reference – Joseph Albahari & Ben Albahari图书推荐-冯金伟博客园 C# Yellow Book 2012Rob Miles

ASP.NET

Debugging ASP.NET (New Riders) – Jonathon Goodyear, Brian Peek, Brad Fox Designing Microsoft ASP.NET Applications (Microsoft Press) – Jonathon Goodyear, Brian Peek, Brad Fox Microsoft ASP.NET Step by Step (Microsoft Press) – G. Andrew Duthrie Deploying and Managing Microsoft .NET Web Farms (Sams) – Barry Bloom Professional ASP.NET MVC 3 (Wrox) – Jon Galloway, Phil Haack, Brad Wilson, K. Scott Allen

Windows API

Programming Windows 95 – Charles Petzold and Paul Yao Programming Applications for Windows – Jeffrey Richter Advanced Windows – Jeffrey Richter Visual C++ Windows Shell Programming – Dino Esposito

MFC

Programming Windows 95 with MFC – Jeff Prosise MFC Internals – George Shepherd and Scot Wingo Professional MFC with Visual C++ – Mike Blaszczak

ASP

Professional ASP Techniques for Webmasters – Alex Homer

Database

An Introduction to Database Systems (8th Edition) Fundamentals of Database Systems (6th Edition) Database: Principles, Programming, and Performance, Second Edition (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) Joe Celko’s Data, Measurements and Standards in SQL (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Unleashed Inside Microsoft® SQL Server® 2008: T-SQL Programming (Pro-Developer) Oracle Essentials: Oracle Database 11g Oracle PL/SQL Programming: Covers Versions Through Oracle Database 11g Release 2 (Animal Guide)

CE

Windows CE Developers Handbook – Terence A. Goggin Programming Windows CE – Douglas Boling (Microsoft Press) Essential Windows CE Application Programming -Robert Burdick (Wiley)

COM / DCOM / COM+ / ATL

Essential COM – Don Box Professional COM Applications with ATL – Sing Li and Panos Economopoulos Creating Lightweight Components with ATL – Jonathan Bates Inside ALT – George Shepherd and Brad King Understanding DCOM – William Rubin and Marshall Brain Programming Distributed Applications with COM and Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 – Ted Pattison Inside OLE, 2nd Edition – Kraig Brockschmidt

WPF / Silverlight / Windows Phone / WinRT

Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed – Adam Nathan Pro WPF In Visual Studio x – Matthew MacDonald Windows Phone Unleashed – Daniel Vaughan Silverlight x Unleashed – Laurent Bugnion Programming Windows – Charles Petzold (yes, he’s done a Windows 8 version) Building Windows 8 Apps with C# and XAML – Jeremy Likness

OOP (Object-Oriented Programming)

Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design – Brett D. McLaughlin, Gary Pollice, and Dave West图书推荐-冯金伟博客园

Web Pages/WebMatrix

Beginning ASP.NET Web Pages with WebMatrix – Mike Brind and Imar Spaanjaars图书推荐-冯金伟博客园 Building ASP.NET Web Pages with Microsoft WebMatrix – Steve Lydford图书推荐-冯金伟博客园

WINDOWS 8 DEVELOPMENT

Windows 8 Apps with XAML and C# Unleashed – Adam Nathan图书推荐-冯金伟博客园 Programming Windows 8 Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript – Kraig Brockschmidt图书推荐-冯金伟博客园

JavaScript/jQuery

JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual – David Sawyer McFarland图书推荐-冯金伟博客园 Murach’s JavaScript and jQuery by Zak Ruvalcaba and Mike Murach图书推荐-冯金伟博客园 Building A JavaScript Frameworkdailyjs

HTML

HTML5 24-Hour Trainer – Joseph W. Lowery and Mark Fletcher图书推荐-冯金伟博客园 HTML & CSS: The Good PartsBen Henick Responsive Web DesignEthan Marcotte

CSS

CSS3: The Missing Manual – David Sawyer McFarland图书推荐-冯金伟博客园

AJAX

Unobtrusive AjaxJesse Skinner

Android

Introduction to Android Application Development: Android Essentials – Joseph Annuzzi Jr., Lauren Darcey, Shane Conder图书推荐-冯金伟博客园 Beginning Android Tablet Application Development – Wei-Meng Lee图书推荐-冯金伟博客园 Programming Android – Zigurd Mednieks, Laird Dornin, G. Blake Meike, and Masumi Nakamura图书推荐-冯金伟博客园 Android Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach – Dave Smith and Jeff Friesen图书推荐-冯金伟博客园

Android Studio

Android Studio Application Development – Belén Cruz Zapata图书推荐-冯金伟博客园 Getting Started with Android Studio – Barbara Hohensee图书推荐-冯金伟博客园 Android Studio: How to guide and tutorial – Clive Sargeant图书推荐-冯金伟博客园 Android Developer Tools Essentials: Android Studio to Zipalign – Mike Wolfson, Donn Felker图书推荐-冯金伟博客园

Matlab

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Introduction to Pattern Recognition A Matlab Approach – Sergios Theodoridis and konstantinos koutroumbas.

OpenCV

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Learning OpenCV Computer Vision – Gary Bradski and Adrian Kaehler
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OpenCV.2. Computer.Vision.Application. Programming.Cookbook – Robert Laganière
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OpenCVReferenceManual – Intel
Regular Expressions

Mastering Regular Expressions – Jeffrey Friedl

Security

Beginning ASP.NET Security – Barry Dorrans图书推荐-冯金伟博客园 SQL Injection Attacks and Defense – Justin Clarke图书推荐-冯金伟博客园