Book Reviews

I've been reading.

On average, I read one book related to software development per month.

I've been doing this since I started developer work in March.

I'm going to review what I've read and express my personal opinion.

I'm a newbie so this will naturally be reflected in my review. 

My hope is that this will generate discussion and suggestions for further reading and exploration.

At first, most of what I was reading was directly related to projects that I was working on. As I started to get a handle on the basics at work, I compiled a list and started working through it.

I developed the list based off advice from a couple friends, Marshall being one of them, as well as recommended titles I found while searching stackoverflow.

See what I'm currently reading.

To date I've read:

• C# 2010 for Programmers
• Professional Silverlight 4
• CLR via C# (Dev-Pro) (text only) 3rd (Third) edition by J.Richter
• Programming Entity Framework 2nd edition
• Refactoring to Patterns
• Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices
• Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit, 2nd Edition
• The Pragmatic Programmer 
• C# in Depth, Second Edition 
• Clean Code
• Code Complete

Books remaining in my library that I haven't read:

• Inside the Microsoft Build Engine
• The Inmates Are Running the Asylum 
• Effective C# 
• More Effective C# 
• Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design 

Books I'm planning on adding to my library:

• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture 
• Real World Functional Programming: With Examples in F# and C# 

Books I'm considering adding to my library:

• UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language (3rd Edition) 
• Programming WCF Services: Mastering WCF and the Azure AppFabric Service Bus 
• WPF 4 Unleashed 
• Silverlight 4 Unleashed 
• Universal Principles of Design, Revised and Updated: 125 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach through Design 
• Coder to Developer: Tools and Strategies for Delivering Your Software 
• Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative