The Tao of Programming

If you haven't seen it yet, you should check it out here.  Beware that you don't start speaking like the book.  It might annoy some people.

Design Patterns

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (ISBN 0-201-63361-2) is a software engineering book describing recurring solutions to common problems in software design. The book's authors are Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson and John Vlissides with a foreword by Grady Booch. They are often referred to as the Gang of Four, or GoF^[1]. The book is divided into two parts, with the first two chapters exploring the capabilities and pitfalls of object-oriented programming, and the remaining chapters describing 23 classic software design patterns. The book includes examples in C++ and Smalltalk. It won a Jolt productivity award, and Software Development productivity award in 1994.<sup>[2]

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