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There really isn’t anything comparable and that includes the publications by ACM and IEEE. The magazines one finds on the shelf at the local bookstore aren’t worth the expense. The same is true of the majority of the programming books aimed at today’s programmer. Most books and magazines are shallow and read like they were written by the marketing departments of Microsoft, et al. Publications, like Code, Wired, and the rest aren’t vaguely comparable to Byte or DDJ. When I was interviewing programmer candidates and asked what they were reading, they lost points for most of the common books on the shelf. For every CLRS, Knuth, Gang of Four, DDIA, or even Fowler or Booch/Rumbaugh earlier, there are dozens, if not 100s, of books that can best be described as doorstops and a web search makes more sense.



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