Kris’ Book Reviews

Certification a mark of a good programmer or just a paper that anyone can get? Whichever definition you prefer take a look at this short review of a book that helps achieving such certificate.

The book starts with a short summary of all Sun Certification exams with a more detailed explanation of the Sun Certified Programmer Exam. Besides those reviews, first chapter shows how to study for the exam in an efficient way.

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TomTom ONE XL-S GPS - a detailed review of the bestselling auto navigator

Usually most computer programming related books contain a language course or an API specification/description, sometimes algorithms. As a result computer industry lacks books dealing with software development in general, telling how to “do it” not in a specific language, but in a broader aspect. “The Pragmatic Programmer” is different, gives a more general view on the subject of programming, as such it is much more valuable than any book talking about specifics of a language or operating system internals.

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I came across this book by coincidence, looking for a computer developer book, that doesn’t emphasize certain language, but gives a slightly broader view on computer engineering, now lets go back to the book itself. The paperback is big, more than 800 pages almost completely filled with useful information.

Introductory chapters present how software should be constructed, how important is to have upstream prerequisites.

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It is a book by famous extreme programming evangelist - Kent Beck, and takes the reader on a trip of early testing. The technique is called test-driven development, or test-first development.The book consists of three parts, in the first one Beck teaches us this new technique by developing a currency classes. Here we are taught step by step how to add test cases and after that, developing the code to be tested. In this part, the source code is in Java.

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