Career-Changing Programming Books

Re:Career-Changing Programming Books by saosebastiao on Friday March 06, 2015 @02:27AM (#9155993)

Any suggestions for a pragmatism-oriented functional programming book? It seems like a lot of inspirational/philosophical books on software development processes and patterns can't shake the object-oriented examples, even when they try to be as general as possible.

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Re:Career-Changing Programming Books by efuquen on Friday March 06, 2015 @02:37AM (#9156018)

Functional Programming in Scala would be my suggestion:

http://www.amazon.com/Functional-Programming-Scala-Paul-Chiu...

I would consider it an updated and more practically minded version of SICP, which is of course amazing as well but not the sort of book you asked for.

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Re:Career-Changing Programming Books by smikhanov on Friday March 06, 2015 @03:36AM (#9156172)

How To Design Programs http://htdp.org

Many people consider it essential reading similar on its importance to SICP.

Re the original poster's list: most of those books are terrible, in my opinion.

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Re:Career-Changing Programming Books by sukilot on Friday March 06, 2015 @11:43AM (#9157952)

Pragmatism and Functional programming are not bedfellows.

Effective Java (!) may be a contender, as it teaches about avoiding mutable state, composition over inheritance, etc

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