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Comment Books Ive recently read (Score 2) 352

The Psychology of Computer Programming, by Weinberg. Its from 1971 but still relevant. It tackles the management aspect of working in a team, how to handle difficult people etc. Clean Code, a great book for those interested in adopting a better coding style. Are your routines longer than 5 lines? Wrestling With Bears , goes into details about how to mitigate risk, evaluate and prioritize requirements and keep your projects on track. Test Driven iOS Development. Cocoa Design Patterns (if your an iOS developer); it really helps to understand what is happening under the hood of the API. Software Engineering by Ian Sommerville, for those interested in design, architecture and large systems. Its a rather long and very traditional (not agile friendly), but its comprehensive and good. Someone already mentioned K&R, I'd add C++ by Bjarne Stroustrump. Agile and Iterative Development: A Manager's Guide. Its not really a "managers guide", but more of a "How can I be a good team player" with an introduction on XP/UP and Scrum kind of a guide. Highly recommented.
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Submission + - Citation map shows top science cities (i-programmer.info)

mikejuk writes: Which cities around the world produce not just the most but the best scientific papers? Using a database and Google Maps the answer is obvious.A paper in Physics arXiv describes how two researchers combined citation data with Google maps to create a plot showing how important cities around the world were in terms of their contribution to physics, chemistry or psychology.
Space

Submission + - Mars may have been 1/3 ocean? (networkworld.com)

coondoggie writes: It’s possible that a huge ocean covered one-third of the surface of Mars some 3.5 billion years ago, a finding likely to reignite an old argument about that amount of water on the red planet, according to a new report. The study by the University of Colorado at Boulder is the first to integrate multiple data sets of river deltas, valley networks and topography from a cadre of NASA and European Space Agency orbiting missions of Mars dating back to 2001, the researchers claim.

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