On 23/04/2018 12:38, Martin Gregorie wrote:
> 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.
>
>

"How to solve it by computer" by Dromey

Again, oldish, but got a copy recently through Abebooks.com

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