The Elements of Programming Style13 reviews Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger Computing Mcgraw-Hill, 1978 Some good rules for us all, still valid after so many years + Computer Science + Trees and Forests + Many rules still apply             Perl Best Practices32 reviews Damian Conway O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005 Best Perl book ever + Write Perl on Purpose + All good + Ruby and Python aficionados, take this! + Don't Write Code Without It             Learning Python (Help for Programmers)124 reviews Mark Lutz, David Ascher, ..., 1999 Great book! + Good for beginners, the python docs can do equally good This book is great! Good writing, good exercises. Good for people who have some experience in programming. If you have never had any contact to other languages or logic, consider studying some introdutory topics before reading this book.             Digital Image Processing (3rd Edition)23 reviews Rafael C. Gonzalez, Richard E. Woods Prentice Hall, 2007 Simply Excellent! Fully Justifies Its Price! + Even better than the first edition + Great Introduction to Image Processing + Excellent book for Image Processing + OK book for 1st or 2nd year undergrads             Mastering Regular Expressions124 reviews Jeffrey Friedl O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006 Great book, but little Ruby + Best material I have seen on regular expressions + Very in-depth This book is great if you want to learn about what you can do with regex, how they work, how you can improve them (efficiency & accuracy) and what kind of pitfalls there are. My only gripe is about the Ruby reference on the cover. In the top right corner it says: "For Perl, PHP, Java, .NET, Ruby ...             Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Signet Classics)83 reviews Lewis Carroll Signet Classics, 2000 It's Amazing + Great transaction Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass by Lewis Carroll I am very happy with this ebook! Well done. Illustrated. I would recommend this product to any fan of Alice in Wonderland!             C++ for Dummies, Second Edition43 reviews Stephen R. Davis For Dummies, 1996 Read the prerequisites! I'm guessing this is something that most of the reviewers who were critical of this book, didn't do before purchasing it. Yes you need to know C for this book and that is clearly stated in the prerequisites. But any book that tries to teach you C++ without prior knowledge of C is only lying to you ...             C Programming Language (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall Software)257 reviews Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie Prentice Hall PTR, 1988 The Must-have + A book to keep .. + C Programming Book + Magic book + Great Book             Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)250 reviews Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, ... Addison-Wesley Professional, 1994 If you are a programmer, this is a must read + Design Patterns + A bit old school, but an excellent starting point... + The One book you absolutely must read if you develop with object oriented languages.             Learning Perl, Second Edition292 reviews Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Christiansen, ..., 1997 A programming library's foundation title and a highly recommended pick + Good book for beginners to PERL + If you're looking for the best Perl introduction, this is it + One book for most of use             Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications36 reviews Toby Segaran O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007 An Eye Openning Inspiring Book + A visionary book that illuminates the Internet + Wow I got more from this book than I have from any other book I read in the past couple of years! It covers in a streamlined form a huge array of algorithms powering the contemporary web - from recomendation engines to a search engine that includes as one of its features the Google PageRank ...             C Traps and Pitfalls9 reviews Andrew Koenig Addison-Wesley Professional, 1989 a must read for c programmers + Nice little book + Know What You're Doing This is a very interesting book. It's titled "c traps and pitfalls", yet talks all about the beauty of c. You will need some fundamental knowledge of computer systems and programming; however, you don't need to be a serious programmer to adventure this book, because while you are enjoying reading ...             C++ for Dummies, Second Edition43 reviews Stephen R. Davis For Dummies, 1996 Read the prerequisites! I'm guessing this is something that most of the reviewers who were critical of this book, didn't do before purchasing it. Yes you need to know C for this book and that is clearly stated in the prerequisites. But any book that tries to teach you C++ without prior knowledge of C is only lying to you ...             C Programming Language (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall Software)257 reviews Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie Prentice Hall PTR, 1988 The Must-have + A book to keep .. + C Programming Book + Magic book + Great Book             Learning Perl, Second Edition292 reviews Randal L. Schwartz, Tom Christiansen, ..., 1997 A programming library's foundation title and a highly recommended pick + Good book for beginners to PERL + If you're looking for the best Perl introduction, this is it + One book for most of use             Mastering Regular Expressions124 reviews Jeffrey Friedl O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006 Great book, but little Ruby + Best material I have seen on regular expressions + Very in-depth This book is great if you want to learn about what you can do with regex, how they work, how you can improve them (efficiency & accuracy) and what kind of pitfalls there are. My only gripe is about the Ruby reference on the cover. In the top right corner it says: "For Perl, PHP, Java, .NET, Ruby ...             The Elements of Programming Style13 reviews Brian W. Kernighan, P. J. Plauger Computing Mcgraw-Hill, 1978 Some good rules for us all, still valid after so many years + Computer Science + Trees and Forests + Many rules still apply             Learning Python (Help for Programmers)124 reviews Mark Lutz, David Ascher, ..., 1999 Great book! + Good for beginners, the python docs can do equally good This book is great! Good writing, good exercises. Good for people who have some experience in programming. If you have never had any contact to other languages or logic, consider studying some introdutory topics before reading this book.             C Traps and Pitfalls9 reviews Andrew Koenig Addison-Wesley Professional, 1989 a must read for c programmers + Nice little book + Know What You're Doing This is a very interesting book. It's titled "c traps and pitfalls", yet talks all about the beauty of c. You will need some fundamental knowledge of computer systems and programming; however, you don't need to be a serious programmer to adventure this book, because while you are enjoying reading ...             Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications36 reviews Toby Segaran O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007 An Eye Openning Inspiring Book + A visionary book that illuminates the Internet + Wow I got more from this book than I have from any other book I read in the past couple of years! It covers in a streamlined form a huge array of algorithms powering the contemporary web - from recomendation engines to a search engine that includes as one of its features the Google PageRank ...