Recommended Readings

I love reading books. I try to add a new book in my collection every 2 weeks or so. It’s just one of those things that I cannot quit until I die. The books I recommend are a mixture of technical and non technical books since I think it’s essential for a developer to be enlightened in all aspects of programming. Being a .NET guy my focus is mostly on C# and ASP.NET. The books are not in any particular order but I have loved reading each and every book in this list.I have provided ebook download links for some of them, go ahead and try downloading them.

.NET books

1) C# in a nutshell – O’reilly ( For a beginner in C#)  Download Here

2) CLR via C# – Jeffrey Richter ( For an experienced C# developer, highly recommended to gain in depth knowledge of the .NET runtime.)

3) Professional ASP.NET – Evjen, Hanselman, Rader ( A must have reference book for ASP.NET)

4) Essential ASP.NET – Fritz Onion  (Must have book for clearing concepts in ASP.NET)

5) Essential ASP.NET with examples in C# – Fritz Onion (Must have book for clearing concepts in ASP.NET)  Download Here

6) ASP.NET Ajax in Action – Gallo, Barkol, Vavilala ( Great book for beginner and experienced in ASP.NET Ajax framework)  Download Here

7) Windows Presentation Foundation Unleashed – Adam Nathan ( I think it is the bible for WPF developers)  Download Here

8) ASP.NET 2.0  Website programming – Marco Bellinaso ( Good ASP.NET book with a practical project example in the book)   Download here

General Programming books

1) Introduction to Algorithms – Thomas Cormen ( Must have book to refresh algorithm knowledge if preparing for interviews :))

2) The Algorithm Design Manual – Steven Skeina ( Good book with examples on algorithm applications)

3) Head First Design Patterns – Freeman and Freeman ( My favourite book on design patterns, fun and work approach to teach design patterns, highly recommended for beginners to intermediate)

4) Design Patterns , Elements of reusable object oriented software – Gamma, Helm, johnson, Vlissides  ( The bible for design patterns, although go through the head first book before reading this book, thats my personal experience though).

5) Code Complete – Steve McConnell ( My favourite book, a must have book for every developer on this planet!)

6) Rapid development, Taming wild software schedules – Steve McConnell ( An excellent book for good development practices)  Download Here

7) A pragmatic programmer – ( A must have book for those who wanna be better programmers)  Download Here

8) Programming Interviews exposed ( A nice book for preparing for interviews with companies like Microsoft).

9) Thinkertoys ( A nice book on creative thinking)

Some of these books have been taken from recommended reading sections of the blogs I follow.  I can assure that all of these books have been “tested OK” by many important guys in the programming world. So go ahead and read them!

Happy programming!!