I picked up some programming books to read over this summer.
- The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
- The Pragmatic Programmer from Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt/David Thomas
- The Art of Concurrency by Clay Breshears
- Pragmatic Version Control Using Git by Travis Swicegood
I picked up The Mythical Man-Month and The Pragmatic Programmer from Journeyman to Master because those books were among the recommended reading list in Pragmatic Thinking & Learning and The Productive Programmer. I started to read both books and from what little I have read so far, The Pragmatic Programmer feels more interesting. I will finish reading The Pragmatic Programmer first and move on to The Mythical Man-Month.
I do not exactly remember how I found out about The Art of Concurrency. I think I found out about this book from someone’s tweets. My work project began using more threads (and the team already discovered a few thread issues) so I thought this makes an appropriate read. Even without my project using more threads, it is time that I learn to use threads correctly. I am probably going to read this book along The Pragmatic Programmer.
I am interested in creating a few Git repositories for personal use. I am going I am planning on creating a few Git repositories (for personal use) so I thought I would learn how to use git. It looks and operates differently enough from Subversion (especially the initial repository creation; no trunk, tags and branches directories?).
I do not have any issues with my Subversion repositories, but I thought I might learn about Git and what is this distributed version control system is all about. I will probably set up my own repositories a bit later. Hopefully this book will help me how to use it and how it works compared to Subversion. It is nice that Git does not require you to be connected to the network. I think my project team may also like it (since our access to TFS is really slow now) but I doubt we will make a switch.
There are a lot to read this summer for me. But Singapore is summer all year-long, so I have until the end of this year to finish them.
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