What Programming Book Should I Read Next?

[Jonathan M Davis via Digitalmars-d]

On Monday, 28 July 2014 at 14:22:01 UTC, David Gileadi wrote:
> On 7/26/14, 4:26 PM, H. S. Teoh via Digitalmars-d wrote:
>> On Sat, Jul 26, 2014 at 04:23:23PM -0700, Walter Bright via 
>> Digitalmars-d wrote:
>>> http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/2bt8a5/what_programming_book_should_i_read_next/
>>>
>>> Ali's book is the latest, so I posted that one!
>>
>> What about TDPL? Even though it's somewhat dated, it *was* 
>> what finally
>> drove me to non-trivial programming in D.
>
> I am, alas, still a D dabbler, but I'm a huge fan of Andrei's 
> book. It's not just the fantastic content, it's also the 
> engaging style. I like it so well that I read it once in a 
> while just for enjoyment.

Honestly, what I like the most about TDPL is that it assumes that 
you already know how to program. It's not out to teach you how to 
program. It's out to teach you how to program in D. That was 
_incredibly_ refreshing to me. I can understand why so many 
language primers assume that you don't know much about how to 
program in any language, but I find it incredibly frustrating 
that they do that, and it makes it that much harder for me to get 
myself to read them - and I'm the kind of guy who likes to read 
the whole instruction manual before doing anything.

- Jonathan M Davis