TychesBookCollection

Tyche's Big Collection of Programming Books

This page is a work in progress... I may revise and extend my remarks... :-)

C++ for Real Programmers - Jeff Alger ISBN 0-12-049942-8 (amazon.com, search)

This is a pretty advanced tome that hits a range of slippery C++ subjects from smart pointers to double dispatch to memory management to homomorphic elephants. This is definately not for the beginner. But excellent for the intermediate C++ programmer desiring to attain a higher state of zen with C++. I'd give it (***+)

Algorithms in C : Parts 1-4 - Robert Sedgewick ISBN 0201314525 (amazon.com, search)

Unless you own this tome, you simply aren't a C programmer, yet. That is unless you own a suitable substitute (i.e. Knuth's tome). BTW, I think this is slightly better than Knuth's tome. A definate (*****)