My friend from the Microsoft Student Partners, Andrei Csibi, had a great ideea. Ask other people which are the books that every programmer should read.

My list is:

I. Best Practices

1) Code Complete 2 – Steve McConnel

- excellent book – MUST READ – teaches you patterns & practices available in most programming language

2) The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master – Andrew Hunt, David Thomas

- excellent book – MUST READ – goes very well with CodeComplete2

II. Algorithms

1) Introduction to Algorithms – Thomas H. Cormen,

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