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Top ten tech books

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Someone was asking me for the top ten tech books that I would recommend for someone in my domain of work. Which is Internet & Computer technology. This is the list I came up with:

1) heads first design patterns By Eric Freeman; Elisabeth Freeman; Kathy Sierra; Bert Bates ( 500 rs)
2) Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML By Elisabeth Freeman; Eric Freeman (500 rs)
3) c++ programming language by Stroustrup (600 Rs)
4) JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 5th Edition By David Flanagan 750 rs
5) Learning Python, 3rd Edition By Mark Lutz (Not sure)
6) Introduction to Algorithms – Cormen/Leiserson/Rivest/Stein – 305 rs
7) Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think (Theory in Practice (O’Reilly)) [ILLUSTRATED] (Paperback) by Andy Oram (Author), Greg Wilson (Author) – 38$
8) Transcending CSS: The Fine Art of Web Design by Andy Clarke, Molly E. Holzschlag (32$)
9)Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition (Paperback)
by Jon Erickson (Author) – 33$
10)The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman (800 rs)

What am I missing? What should I not include in this list ?

Written by shivku

January 14th, 2008 at 3:38 am

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