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Ask Slashdot: What Should Every Programmer Read?

Posted by Soulskill on from the green-eggs-and-dereferenced-pointers dept.

An anonymous reader writes "There's a blog post floating around right now listing articles every programmer should read. I'm curious what articles, books, etc., Slashdot readers would add to this list. Should The Art of Computer Programming, Design Patterns, or Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs be on the list? What about The Mythical Man-Month, or similar works that are about concepts relating to programming? Is there any code that every programmer should take a look at? Obviously, the nature of this question precludes articles about the nitty-gritty of particular languages, but I'm sure a lot of people would be interested in those, too. So if you can think of a few articles that every C++ programmer (or Perl, or Haskell, or whatever) should know, post those too."

6 of 352 comments (clear)

  1. TFM by NIK282000 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Everybody should RTFM.

    --
    Dear aunt, let's set so double the killer delete select all
  2. Obviously... by fuzzyfuzzyfungus · · Score: 4, Funny

    An arbitrarily long strip of tape, divided into sections on which there appear symbols drawn from some finite alphabet. They should be able to work the rest out from that.

    1. Re:Obviously... by VortexCortex · · Score: 4, Funny

      They should be able to work the rest out from that.

      Actually, you can't make such a generalized determination. Surely some of them will halt.

    2. Re:Obviously... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

      Hey, you won't know until you try!

  3. A Game of Thrones by jfdavis668 · · Score: 2, Funny

    Spoiler, everybody dies

  4. Re:The Joy of C by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    I've read both, and I still don't understand how to insert pointers into doubly linked lists.