Books Programmers Don't Really Read But Recommend

Re:Books Programmers Don't Really Read But Recommend by tumanian on Sunday March 25, 2012 @10:31PM (#3754670)

The C++ Programming Language and the ARM(Annotated Reference Manual) won me many interviews. After reading those I could claim that I know the language. Sadly, I could never find such concise reference for Python or Java (or Erlang, but there was no documentation anyway).

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Re:Books Programmers Don't Really Read But Recommend by soiryx on Sunday March 25, 2012 @10:47PM (#3754725)

Python: http://www.amazon.com/Python-Essential-Reference-David-Beazl...

Java: http://www.amazon.com/Java-Language-Specification-The-Editio...

What do you mean you can't find them?

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Re:Books Programmers Don't Really Read But Recommend by zackattack on Monday March 26, 2012 @02:13AM (#3755298)

688 pages is not concise.

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Re:Books Programmers Don't Really Read But Recommend by cpeterso on Monday March 26, 2012 @02:27AM (#3755340)

At 1000+ pages, I don't think The C++ Programming Language is a concise book.

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Re:Books Programmers Don't Really Read But Recommend by edwinnathaniel on Sunday March 25, 2012 @10:41PM (#3754700)

The Java Programming Language, 4th Ed. (heard 5th in the making).

This is the equivalent to The C++ Programming Language. Written by Ken Arnold, James Gosling, etc.

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Re:Books Programmers Don't Really Read But Recommend by zackattack on Monday March 26, 2012 @02:12AM (#3755295)

900+ pages is concise?

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Re:Books Programmers Don't Really Read But Recommend by edwinnathaniel on Monday March 26, 2012 @11:05AM (#3756999)

Have you read it?

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