Computer Books to Read on a Lonely Island

I recently had the pleasure to visit this place:

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On an island of approx 300x200 meters, snorkeling, swimming, eating, sleeping and relaxing is pretty much all you do. And reading, lots of reading:

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Two [computer] books that passed my personal “good to read far away from the keyboard” test are:

  • “Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship”
    Robert C. Martin

    I had this on my bookshelf for quite some time, but never did more than quickly scan the chapters. When you talk to people who have read this book, they usually say “you will not agree on everything the book says, but it is an important book to read” – now I’m one of them.
    I won’t go into more detail here; the reviews on e.g. Amazon pretty much capture what this book is about, so I recommend you take a look there.
     
  • “Pro Silverlight 3 in C#”
    Matthew MacDonald

    Unlike “Clean Code”, this may not a book that would come to one’s mind as something that could be read well away from the computer – after all, it’s dealing with a specific technology and not general concepts.
    But this book does the walkthrough through the various code samples so well that you don’t need Visual Studio to follow what’s going on. I never had the feeling “Wait, where does this thing come from? If I only could hit F12” (which was what happened to me with one of the early books on WPF).

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