A Good Read

'A Good Read?: Useful references for further reading'

The sections below contain references for further reading on some of the topics covered in the Pragmatic Programming course.

Fortran

• T.M.R Ellis, I. R. Philips and T. M. Lahey. Fortran 90 Programming. Addison-Wesley. ISBN-10 0-201-54446-6.

C/C++

• The bible is The C Programming Language by Kernighan & Ritchie. I've never used anything else.
• O'Reilly rarely produce a dud.
• S. B. Lippman. C++ Primer (3rd Edition). Addison Wesley, 1998. ISBN-13: 978-0201824704
• S. Meyers. Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs (3rd Edition). Addison-Wesley. 2005. ISBN-13: 978-0321334879
• E. Gamma, R. Helm, R. Johnson and J. Vlissides. Design patterns : elements of reusable object-oriented software. Addison Wesley. ISBN-13: 978-0201633610

Scientific & Numerical Programming

S. Oliveira and D. Stewart. Writing Scientific Software: A Guide for Good Style. Cambridge University Press. 2006. ISBN-13 978-0-521-67595-6.

This book also gives advice on how you can make your programs run quickly.

Build Systems

• http://svnbook.red-bean.com

Version Control

• http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual