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Recommended Reading

This page collects both bibliography as well as links to online literature. The scope is development for OOo, in various programming languages.

OOo-specific

• the (API) Developer's Guide
• the (somewhat outdated) OOo Coding Guidelines
• how to write correct C++
• how to write and how to make code compile warning-free
• this page, of course ;-)

Software engineering in general

• Design Patterns - Erich Gamma et al. - Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code - Martin Fowler et al. - Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• The Pragmatic Programmer - Andrew Hunt, David Thomas - Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Sustainable Software Development: An Agile Perspective - Kevin Tate - Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Concurrent Programming in Java 2nd edition - Doug Lea - Publisher: Addison-Wesley.
  Yes, this is a Java book. But the concepts within are universally applicable.

C++ Programming

The basics:

• C++ Primer 4th edition - Stanley B Lippman, Josee Lajoie - Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Accelerated C++ - Andrew Koenig, Barbara Moo - Publisher: Addison-Wesley

The reference:

• The C++ Programming Language Special Edition - Bjarne Stroustrup - Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• the ISO C++ standard
  • preliminary, but free draft
  • official c++ standard (2003er revision, huge price tag)

Simply indispensable:

• Exceptional C++ - Herb Sutter - Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• More Exceptional C++ - Herb Sutter - Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Exceptional C++ Style - Herb Sutter - Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Effective C++ 2nd edition - Scott Meyers - Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Effective STL - Scott Meyers - Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• C++ Coding Standards - Herb Sutter, Andrei Alexandrescu - Publisher: Addison-Wesley

Advanced Topics:

• Modern C++ Design - Andrei Alexandrescu - Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• C++ Templates - David Vandevoorde, Nicolai Josuttis - Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Large-Scale C++ Software Design - John Lakos - Publisher: Addison-Wesley
• Exception Handling: A False Sense of Security - Tom Cargill - C++ Report
• Exception-Safety in Generic Components - David Abrahams

A really complete resource for the essential stuff written about C++ is ACCU's (Association of C/C++ Users) collection of book reviews

Java Programming

Introductory:

• Java Examples in a Nutshell - Flanagan, D - Publisher: O'Reilly
• Java in a Nutshell (deluxe Edition) - various authors - Publisher: O'Reilly

Definitive:

• The Java Language Specification, Third Edition - Gosling, Joy, Steele, Bracha - Addison–Wesley, 2005 (sadly, the third edition is a typographic disaster).

Tips and Tricks:

• Effective Java Programming Language Guide - Bloch - Addison–Wesley, 2001.
• Java Puzzlers: Traps, Pitfalls, and Corner Cases - Bloch, Gafter - Addison–Wesley, 2005.
• Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Patterns, Second Edition - Lea - Addison–Wesley, 2000.

Python Programming

OOo Basic Programming

BASIC Programmers Guide

Free Resources

From the above list, everything that's free (as in free beer):

• the (API) Developer's Guide
• e-Books
• c++ draft standard
• the (somewhat outdated) OOo Coding Guidelines
• how to write correct C++
• how to write and how to make code compile warning-free