The Open Source U

Programming books are elusive for me. I often ry to start reading them and 99.9% of the time I end up not finishing the book… Even though, I usually will gt more than half way though the book. This is a very bad trend the I’m aiming to reverse this year. As I posted earlier, I’m currently reading Head First Design Patterns and am at the halfway point.

I intend to finish the book yet and I’m still doing good with reading it. I usually read after work for at least 20 to 30 minutes. It is usually good enough for me to cover about 5 pages. I’ve read the book for as long as 3 hours before but that isn’t possible to do every night…

Several great bloggers have posted several book lists. I’m sure that most developers that have been following blogs are aware of them but as a reminder they are below. Check them out… How many of the books on their lists have you read? What would you add to their list and why?  (Leave a comment below, I’m really curious as I’m going to start building a list of books to read.)

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/SixEssentialLanguageAgnosticProgrammingBooks.aspx

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/archives/000020.html

I specifically want to put Head First Design Patterns on their lists. I know that the Head First series can look a little silly (when simply flipping though the book), however I feel that the content is very well presented, is kept relevant and can hold your attention (this is very important to finishing the book as well as getting something out of it).

I know some might argue but that is my two cents.