Ernesto's Book Reviews

Best Programming Books Ever

Here's my short-list for the award to the Best Programming Book Ever. They are presented in alphabetical order (by author):

• Kent Beck's "Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns".
• Bentley's "Programming Pearls".
• Hunt and Thomas' "The Pragmatic Programmer".
• Kernighan and Pike's "The Practice of Programming".
• McConnell's "Code Complete".

Security Books

• Bruce Schneier's "Applied Cryptography, 2nd Edition".
• John Viega and Gary McGraw's "Building Secure Software".
• Ross Anderson's "Security Engineering".
• Howard and LeBlanc's "Writing Secure Code".