June 21, 2009 at 1:00 am · Filed under Books, News - written by Roshan Jonnalagadda
First i thought this would be quite small book, but looking at some of its pictures, i think this is the largest book i personally have ever seen in my life.
The English edition of Wikipedia Encyclopedia contains around 3 million articles as of now and if someone were to print the entire Wikipedia encyclopedia into a book, the size of that book would roughly be equivalent to 952 volumes of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
This is the work of a student (Rob Matthews) in UK who converted 0.01% of wikipedia into a book.
This Wikipedia book has some 5,000 pages and it’s a compilation of 400+ featured articles all picked from Wikipedia. And, as you can easily make out from the photographs, the book is huge – it’s about 1ft 7in. high or just as tall as a 30″ widescreen monitor.
Tell us what you think and your ideas about how this idea could be made better!
October 17, 2008 at 1:00 am · Filed under Books - written by Elliot Gibson
Clean Code – Written by Robert C. Martin
Description
Even bad code can function. But if code isn’t clean, it can bring a development organization to its knees. Every year, countless hours and significant resources are lost because of poorly written code. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Software expert Robert C. Martin presents Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship. Martin has teamed up with his colleagues from Object Mentor to distill their best agile practice of cleaning code “on the fly” into a book that will instill within you the values of a software craftsman and make you a better programmer—but only if you work at it. What kind of work will you be doing? You’ll be reading code—lots of code. And you will be challenged to think about what’s right about that code, and what’s wrong with it. More importantly, you will be challenged to reassess your professional values and your commitment to your craft.
When you do code maintenance, you can really “love” or “hate” a person that you do not even know just by the code he or she has written. Messy code almost always goes hand in hand with lower productivity, lower motivation, and a higher number of bugs. In the first chapter, Robert C. Martin presents in a very instructive way, the opinion from very well-known personalities about what “clean code” is, and also suggests we apply the Boy Scout Rule (Leave the campground cleaner that you found it) to our code. The following chapters present practical advice about how to do this cleaning (or even better, how to avoid the mess in the first place).
The suggestions made in the book may sound very familiar to any experienced programmer but they are presented with such a level of detail and with very good examples that it is almost impossible not to learn valuable things chapter by chapter. All the examples are in Java, but the concepts that they explain can be applied, in most of the cases, to other languages.
This book is mainly for programmers wanting to expand their current coding knowledge. That said, I would also recommend it for a first time programmer as it can help you understand how to have cleaner code to start with! Clean Code can also be purchased as an ebook which probably appeals to more than the paperback version.
October 16, 2008 at 1:00 am · Filed under Books, Online - written by Roshan Jonnalagadda
I found this great site that gives away free books. As we are reviewing some books this week, i thought this might be useful for our readers.
FreeComputerBooks.com consists of a huge collection of Free online Computer, Programming, Mathematics, Engineering, and Technical Books, Lecture Notes and Tutorials. It is very well categorized by topics, with 12 top level categories, and over 150 sub-categories. It has both pattern and keywords search engines for you to find the titles quickly. The keywors search engine is powered by Google.
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