The following are a list of resources that I've put together from recommendations in the FidoNet C_Echo. These include books, magazines and compiler vendors. The format for book entries is as follows: Author _Title_, ISBN, Publisher, Year, List Price (Comments -- Recommmended-By) Prices are in $US unless otherwise specified. Where a book has been recommended by multiple persons, I've left off the names that don't have comments. Books are in alpha order by author's last name, or title if the author is unknown or unattributed. When there is more than one ISBN or price, the following suffixes will be used: .p -- paperback .h -- hardback .d -- with disk Magazine information includes the name of the magazine and the address and subscription rates. I cannot list information I do not have. It is possible that some information may be missing for a particular book. Comments are condensed from the messages I got the recommendation from and may or may not accurately describe the book. Lest they take over C_ECHO, any and all additions/corrections/suggestions should be sent to me netmail at 1:106/2000.25. [DISCLAIMER: I make no promises real or implied as to the usefulness of any of the books here listed. The reason for the 'recommended by' is to give you some idea of who thought the book was good so you can find books that are recommended by folks whose messages make particular sense to you. (Or folks who forgot to mention author/ISBN/publisher/price so you can harass them.) These people are not in any position to promise you anything, either.] In response to a request by the FidoNet C_Echo moderator, I'm soliciting longer blurbs about any and all resources listed here. Please answer the following questions, either individually, or cover the answers to most of them in a paragraph or so about the book. a) Title or other information sufficient for me to determine what the heck you're writing about b) When you last read/looked at the book (if it's been a long time, I'll need to take that into account when selecting whose comments to use) c) A brief description. d) A list of subjects where the book should be listed e) It's target audience (pick one or more of the following: beginner, intermediate, skilled, advanced, expert) f) Your opinion of the useability/readability/understandibilty of the book g) What types of folks you'd recommend it to h) What types of folks you'd recommend to pass it by ...and anything you think I forgot. Your cooperation will be appreciated and your name will be listed as a contributor. - J-Mag Guthrie 1:106/2000.25 1:106/1393 ----[ Beginning of book list - last updated 8 Oct 1993 ]---------------------- Abramowitz, Milton and Stegun, Irene _Handbook of Mathematical Functions_, 0-486-61272-4, Dover Publications, 1972, $21.95 (Bob Jarvis) Abrash, Michael _Power Graphics Programming_, 0-88022-500-9, QUE, 1989 (out of print) _Advanced C Programming_, Brady Publishing Group Aho, Sethi, and Ullman _Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools_ Atkinson and Atkinson _Using Borland C++_, QUE (Steven Owen) Banahan, Mike _The C Book_ (Tom Donahue) Bentley, Jon, _More Programming Pearls - Confessions of a Coder_, 0-201-11889-0, Addison-Wesley, 1990, $18.25 Bentley, Jon _Programming Pearls_, 0-201-10331-1, Addison-Wesley, 1986, $18.25 Bentley, Jon _Writing Efficient Programs_ Booch, Grady _Object Oriented Design with Applications_, 0-8053-0091-0, Benjamin/Cummings Publishing, 1991 Brooks, Fred _The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering_, 0-201-00650-2, Addison-Wesley, 1975 Brown, Ralf and Kyle, Jim, _PC Interrupts_, 0-201-57797-6, Addison- Wesley, 1991, $32.95 Campbell, Joe _C Programmer's Guide to Serial Communications_, 0-672-22584-0, Howard W. Sams & Co, 1987, $26.95 (Does not talk about RTS/CTS handshaking [which is] vital for creating a modern terminal program. -- Jon Guthrie) Davis, Stephen R. _Hands-On Turbo C++_, 0-201-57052-1, Addison-Wesley (Daniel Lo) _DOD Programmer's Reference, 3rd Edition_ Que (Robert Johnstone) Duncan, Ray; Petzold, Charles; Shulman, Andrew; Baker, M. Steven; Nelson, Ross P.; Davis, Stephen R.; Moote, Robert _Extending DOS_, 0-201-56798-9, Addison-Wesley, 1992, $26.95 Ellis, Margaret and Stroustrup, Bjarne _The Annotated C++ Reference Manual_, 0-201-51459-1, Addison-Wesley, 1990, (Bob Jarvis) Gorlen, Keith E.; Orlow, Sanford M.; and Plexico, Perry S. _Data Abstraction and Object-Oriented Programming in C++_, 0-471-92346-X, John Wiley & Sons, 1990 (Bob Stout) Ferraro, Richard _The Programmer's Guide to the EGA and VGA Cards, 2nd Edition_ 0-201-57025-4, Addison Wesley, $34.95, CAN$44.95 Foerster, Scott _The Printer Bible_, 0-88022-512-2, QUE Books, 1990, $24.95, CAN$31.95, UK#22.95 Goodwin, Mark _Serial Communications in C and C++_, MIS Press, $29.95, $49.95d Hekmatpour, Sharam _C++ - A Guide for C Programmers_, 0-13-109471-8, Prentice Hall, 1990 Harbison, Samuel P. and Steele, Guy L. Jr. _C, a Reference Manual (third edition)_, 0-13-110933-2, Prentice Hall, 1991 Hogan, Thom _The Programmer's PC Sourcebook (Second Edition)_, 1-55615-321-X, Microsoft Press, 1991, $39.95 Holub, Allen _Compiler Design in C_, 0-13-155045-4, Prentice Hall, 1990 Horton, Mark R. _Portable C Software_, 0-13-868050-7, Prentice Hall, 1990 (Bob Stout) James, Geoffrey _The Tao of Programming_, 0-981137-07-01-795 Jourdain, Robert and The Peter Norton Computing Group _The Programmer's Problem Solver_ Kay, David C., and Levine, John R. _Graphics File Formats_ 0-8306-3059-7.p, 0-8306-3060-0.h, Tab/Windcrest/McGraw-Hill, 1992 (primarily a file format reference and does not give programming examples -- David Harmon) Kernighan, Brian W. and Ritchie, Dennis M. _The C Programming Language_ 0-13-11-163-3, 0-13-110362-8, Prentice Hall (two editions, informally K&R and K&R2) Knuth, Donald _Sorting and Searching_, Addison Wesley (Knuth is a Vulcan -- Terry Carmen) Kosko, Bert _Neural Networks and Fuzzy Systems: A Dynamical Systems Approach to Machine Intelligence_, 1992, $56.95 (2 Disks -- Eric Ford) Koenig, Andrew _C Traps and Pitfalls_, 0-201-17928-8 LaFore, Robert _Turbo C, Programming for the PC_ Waite Group (Ray Parker) Lapin, J.E. (pseudonym) _Portable C and Unix System Programming_, 0-13-686494-5, Prentice-Hall, 1987 (Bob Stout) Leblanc, Gerard _MaŚtrise de Turbo C_, Eyrolles Editions (in French -- Francis Peree) Lewine, Donald _POSIX Programmer's Guide_, 0-937175-73-0, O'Reilly & Associates, Inc., 1991, $34.95 Lindley, Craig A. _Practical Image Processing in C_, 0-471-54377-2 (Joe Angert) Mayer, Bertrand _Object-oriented Software Construction_, 0-13-629049-3, Prentice Hall (Mike Taylor) McCord, James W. _C Programmer's Guide to Graphics_, 0-672-22784-3, SAMS, $29.95, $37.95 CAN (Branko Dragicevic) McGregor, John and Sykes, David _Object-Oriented Software Development: Engineering Software for Reuse_, 0-442-00157-6, Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1992 (Bob Jarvis) _Microsoft MS-DOS Programmer's Reference_, 1-55615-329-5, Microsoft Press, 1991, $24.95 (Bob Jarvis) Nance, Barry _Network Programming in C_, Que Books (Steve Cox) Nelson, Mark _The Data Compression Handbook_, 1-55851-214-4, 1-55851-216-0 M&T Books, $29.95, $36.95.d (Oliver Reubens) Norton, Peter and Wilton, Richard _The NEW Peter Norton Programmer's Guide to the IBM PC & PS/2_, 1-55615-131-4, Microsoft Press Oualline, Steve _Practical C Programming_, 0-937175-65-X, O'Reilly & Associates (David Gersic) Perry, Greg and Johnson, Marcus _Turbo C++ By Example_ 0-88022-812-1, Que Petzold, Charles _Programming Windows 3.1_, 1-55615-395-3, MicroSoft Press Plauger, P. J. _The Standard C Library_, 0-13-131509-9, Prentice Hall, 1992 Plauger, P. J. _Standard C: Programmer's Quick Reference_, 1-55615-158-6, Microsoft Press, 1989, $7.95 Press, William H.; Flannery, Brian P.; Teukolsky, Saul A.; and Vetterling, William T., _Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing_, 0-521-30811-9, Cambridge University Press, 1986 Press, William et. al. _Numerical Recipes in C_ (the C version of the above -- J-Mag) Qualline, Steve _C Elements of Style_ 1-55851-291-8, M&% Books Radcliffe, Robert _Encyclopedia C_ 0-89588-655-3 (Microsoft C specific) Remer, Daniel and Dunaway, Robert _Legal Care for Your Software (4th Edition)_, 87337-037-6, RDS Publishing Company, $39.95 Rimmer, Steve _Bit-Mapped Graphics_, 0-8306-3558-0, Windcrest/McGraw- Hill Rimmer, Steve _Supercharged Bit-Mapped Graphics_, 0-8306-3788-5, Windcrest/McGraw-Hill Rose, Charles G. _Programmer's Guide to NetWare_, 0-07-607029-8, Mcgraw-Hill Salone, M. J. _How to Copyright Software_, NOLO Press. (George Milliken) Schildt, Herbert _Advanced C_, 0-07-881348-4, Osborne McGraw-Hill, $21.95 Schildt, Herbert _ANSI C Made Easy_, 0-07-881500-2, Osborne McGraw-Hill, $19.95 Schildt, Herbert _ANSI C Made Easy (Spanish)_, 84-76156030, Osborne McGraw-Hill Schildt, Herbert _Artificial Intelligence Using C_, 0-07-881255-0, Osborne McGraw-Hill, $24.94 Schildt, Herbert _The Art of C_, 0-07-881-691-2.d, Osborne-McGraw-Hill, 1991, $39.95.d Schildt, Herbert _Born to Code in C_, 0-07-881468-5, Osborne McGraw-Hill, $28.95 Schildt, Herbert _C: The Pocket Reference_, 0-07-881321-2, Osborne McGraw-Hill, $5.95 Schildt, Herbert _C: The Pocket Reference (Spanish)_, 84-76152175, Osborne McGraw-Hill Schildt, Herbert _C: Power User's Guide_, 0-07-881307-7, Osborne McGraw-Hill, $22.95 Schildt, Herbert _C: Power User's Guide (Spanish)_, 84-76153813, Osborne McGraw-Hill Schildt, Herbert _C: The Complete Reference_, 0-07-881538-X, Osborne McGraw-Hill, $28.95 Schildt, Herbert _C++: The Complete Reference_, 0-07-881654-8, Osborne McGraw-Hill, $29.95 Schildt, Herbert _Teach Yourself C_, 0-07-881596-7, Osborn McGraw-Hill, $19.95 Schildt, Herbert _Turbo C++: The Complete Reference_, 0-07-881535-5, Osborne McGraw-Hill, $29.95 Schildt, Herbert _Using Turbo C++_, 0-07-881610-6, Osborne McGraw-Hill, $24.95 Schulman, Andrew, et al. _Undocumented DOS_, 0-201-570649-5, Addison Wesley, 1990, $39.95 (one portion of..."et al."...Ralf Brown -- Brian Dunworth) Schwaderer, David _C Programmer's Guide to NETBIOS_ (Dimitri Van de Ville) Sedgewick, Robert _Algorithms in C_, 0-201-51425-7, Addison-Wesley, 1990 Selby, Samual M. _Standard Mathematical Tables_, The Chemical Rubber Company, 1970 Shlaer, Sally and Mellor, Stephen _Object Lifecycles : Modeling the World in States_, 0-13-629940-7, Yourdon Press, 1992 (Bob Jarvis) Shlaer, Sally and Mellor, Stephen _Object-Oriented Systems Analysis : Modeling the World in Data_, 0-13-629023-X, Yourdon Press, 1988 (Bob Jarvis) Stevens, Al _C Database Development, 2nd Ed._, 1-5528-135-5, MIS Press, $24.95, $49.95.d Stevens, Al _Extending Turbo C Professional_ Stevens, Al _Turbo C Memory Resident Utilities, Screen I/O and Programming Techniques_, 0-943518-35-0, MIS Press Stoltz, Axel _The Soundblaster Book_ 1-55755-164-2, Abacus, 34.95, CAN$44.95 Straker, David _C Style: Standards & Guidelines_ 0-13-116898-3, Prentice-Hall Stroustrup, Bjarne _The C++ Programming Language - 2nd Edition_ (more current than the ARM, but less official -- Bob Stout) _Supercharged Bitmapped Graphics_ TAB books (Jim Mooney) Swan, Tom _Learning C++_, 0-672-22785-1, SAMS, 1991 (Comes with working demo version of Zortech C++ -- Bram Smits) Swan, Tom _Mastering Borland C++_, 0-672-30274-8, SAMS, 1992, $39.95d (ANSI C, C++, extensive examples and answers for the exercises -- Scott Remick) Tisher, Michael _PC Intern_, 1-55755-145-6 ( Patrick Tousignant) Tondo, Clovis L., Nathanson, Andrew, Yount, Eden _Mastering Make_, 0-13-554619-2, Prentice Hall, 1992, $25.75 Traister, Robert J _Mastering C Pointers_, 0-12-697408-X, Academic Press, 1990 (Tom Donahue) Van Wyk, Christopher J. _Data Structures and C Programs_,0-201-16116-8, Addison-Wesley (David Gersic) Voss, Greg and Chui, Paul (unknown title), 0-07-881526-6, Borland/Osborne/McGraw Hill (a C++ tutorial -- Phil Sharp) _The Waite Group's Essential Guide to ANSI C_, 0-672-22673-1, Howard W. Sams, 1989, $7.95, (out of print but worth searching for - the best pocket-sized C handbook available -- Bob Stout) _The Waite Group's New C Primer Plus_, 0-672-22687-1 (Dale Furneaux) Waite and Prata, _C: Step by Step_, 0-672-22651-0 Wiener, Richard and Pinson, Lewis _An Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming and C++_, 0-201-15413-7, Addison-Wesley, 1988 $31.68 (Bob Jarvis) Wilton, Richard _Programmer's Guide to PC & PS/2 Video Systems_, 1-55615-103-9, Microsoft Press, 1987, $24.95 (Bob Jarvis) Young, Michael J. _System Programming in Microsoft C_, Sybex (Nhan Tran) ----[ End of book list ]------------------------------------------------------ ----[ Begin magazine list ]--------------------------------------------------- DDJ (Dr. Dobbs Journal) P.O. Box 56188 Boulder, CO 80322-6188 U.S.A. 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