On Mon, 23 Apr 2018 10:24:31 +0000, Jan Panteltje wrote:

> Just a question, now that all of you are ready to throw pies,
> did any of you guys ever read Dr Dobbs magazine long ago?
>
Knew of it: never read it. The "68 Microjournal" was my source of most
knowledge back in the day when I was running FLEX09 on a 6809-based
system.

> I always found that inspiring, for sure some software coding methods in
> C I picked up from that.
>
The best sources I know for that are:

- "The C Programming Language" (K&R ed 2) plus
  "The Practice of Programming" Kernighan & Pike
  for somebody starting to program

- "Software Tools in Pascal" and
  "Algorithms" (Sedgewick)
  as general algorithmic handbooks

- "UNIX System Programming for SVr4" (O'Reilly books)
  as the best reference for the standard C POSIX library I know

- "Design of Man-Computer Dialogs" (James Martin) for guidance
  in implementing usable interactive systems

- "An Introduction to Database Systems" (Chris Date) for
  insights into database design and implementation. He worked with
  Ted Codd on implementing the first relational database.

The last two are quite old, but the ideas and approaches they describe
are still useful.


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