The Practice of Programming
by Brian W. Kernigham & Rob Pike
1999, Addison-Wesley, Reading, Massachusetts
ISBN: 0-201-61586-X
No matter how sophisticated or experienced a developer you think you are, you need this book. Kernigham and Pike offer advice on how to code more effectively, as well as provide interesting and provocative programming exercises.
Brian Kernigham is, of course, is one of the inventors of the C programming language ( and co-author of the book of the same name ). Rob Pike worked on both the Plan 9 and Inferno operating systems.
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