These are the books that comprise my personal library. 297 books spanning 27 years; sorted by published date not purchased date.
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C Programming Language, 2nd EditionReview: The C book. |
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The Science of Fractal ImagesReview: The book on fractal algorithms. Sadly, no longer in print. I had to search high and low for a used copied. |
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The Annotated C++ Reference ManualReview: A good supplement to The C++ Programming Language. |
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Comprehensive Structured COBOLReview: This was the textbook for "COBOL Beginning" at Hillsborough Community College. I strongly advise against learning the archaic COBOL language; don't waste your time. |
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Visual Basic SuperbibleReview: A manual replacement for Visual Basic 3. I don't know why I still have it? |
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C How to Program, 2nd EditionReview: A good textbook for learning C. |
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Graphics Gems V (IBM Version) (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics) (№ 5)Review: Complex graphics algorithms. |
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C in Plain EnglishReview: A good primer for C. |
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Black Art of Visual Basic Game ProgrammingReview: A good book for simple to moderately difficult game programming. A bit out dated now, but some principles still apply. Don't expect anything like Quake though, they're are mainly 2D game examples. |
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Master Visual Basic 4/Book and Cd-RomReview: This was the textbook for "Visual BASIC Advanced" at Hillsborough Community College. A piece of junk. |
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Visual Basic 4.0 How-To: The Definitive Visual Basic 4 Problem-SolverReview: A good book for it's time. |
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Borland Delphi How-To: The Definitive Delphi Problem SolverReview: The same how-to's from the VB book, only in Delphi. Useless if you're already familiar with WinAPI. |
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Genetic Algorithms in C++Review: I found this book to be a disappointment. It was hard to follow and lacked explanations in some areas. Too much space was spent on random number theory. Don't let the title mislead you; the source code requires C++ with a visual framework (OWL or MFC). I've seen better; skip this one. |
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Teach Yourself Database Programming With Visual Basic 4 in 21 Days (Sams Teach Yourself)Review: Normally I avoid these type books like the plague, however, at the time I needed to learn VB4 database programming quick for a project and this book did a great job. |
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C++ in Plain EnglishReview: A good primer for C++. |
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Database Developer's Guide With Visual Basic 4Review: This was the textbook for "Database Programming" at Hillsborough Community College. |
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Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats: The Complete Reference on CD-ROM with Links to Internet ResourcesReview: A good reference book on various graphic file formats. |
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The Chaos Cookbook: A Practical Programming GuideReview: A good book on Chaos and Fractals. |
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Client/Server Programming with Microsoft Visual Basic (Microsoft Programming Series)Review: I only purchased this book because, at the time I was developing a business Tax software suite and, it said it had a Tax software example inside. The example turned out to be a scaled down version of our competition's software on the CD; no source code either. The book was basically a waste. |
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Writing Compilers and InterpretersReview: A good book which steps through writing a Pascal compiler and interpreter using C++. |
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Programming PerlReview: I got this book back when I was a Unix programmer, and never even used it. |
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Delphi Component DesignReview: A good, but outdated and obsolete, book on component design in Delphi 2 by one of the Delphi programmers at Borland. |
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Visual J++ Java ProgrammingReview: This was the textbook, which was later dropped due to errors, for "Java Programming" at Hillsborough Community College. This book also came out before Microsoft completely changed Visual J++, so it is now obsolete. |
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Win32 Programming (Addison-Wesley Advanced Windows Series)(2 Vol set)Review: A great book for learning how Windows work internally. |
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Delphi 3 SuperbibleReview: A replacement for the Delphi 3 manuals. |
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Borland C++ Builder: the Definitive C++ Builder Problem SolverReview: Similar to the Delphi one. Useless if you're already familiar with WinAPI. |
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The C++ Programming Language (3rd Edition)Review: The C++ book. |
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Component Software: Beyond Object-Oriented Programming (ACM Press)Review: The book was disappointing. The author compares and contrasts the various component technologies. He is somewhat biased since he promotes, and favors, his own proprietary incarnation of Object Pascal. |
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Linux Application DevelopmentReview: This book was another waste of money. I wish I would've previewed it first at a bookstore before ordering it at Amazon.com. The title is highly misleading, the book talks about low-level Linux O/S stuff, not application programming. |
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Texturing and Modeling, Second Edition: A Procedural Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer Graphics)Review: I purchased this book chiefly for the chapters regarding fractals, specifically fractal landscape generation. One of the authors, F. Kenton Musgrave, had worked with Benoit Mandelbrot, the father of fractal geometry, for six years. |
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Mastering Java 2Review: This book is, by far, the thickest book I own at exactly 3 inches. It even surpasses my "GTE Everything Pages" phonebook! It truly could have been separated into 3 books. Had it been 3 separate books, I would have only purchased Part III, the advanced section. Currently, it is collecting dust on my bookshelf. Perhaps the mammoth book could be used as a makeshift bulletproof vest or boat anchor. |
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Putting Metaclasses to WorkReview: I had worked extensively with metaclasses before in Delphi and C++, but this book was a sad disappointment. Too much pseudo-code mixed with pseudo-math, mixed with real code. |
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C++ How to Program (How to Program Series)Review: A good textbook for learning C++. |
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Learning Perl, Second Edition (Nutshell Handbooks)Review: I got this book back when I was a Unix programmer, and never even used it. |
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Enterprise JavaBeansReview: I picked up this book as a recommended read for a Java endeavor which never came to fruition. |
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Learning C++: A Hands-On ApproachReview: This was the textbook for the "Programming in C++" class at Hillsborough Community College. |
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