More Programming Pearls: Confessions of a Coder

One of the books I recommend for anyone who really wants to be a programmer.

Put this on your desk at work and people will immediately fear your programming skills.

The original Programming Pearls is a fabulous look at algorithms, correctness and performance. This sequel is a little less thematically linked and a little more uneven, but is definitely worth reading by any programmer. If nothing else, you should buy it for the two best chapters: the discussion on profiling which is still cutting-edge, and the discussion on "little languages", which is ahead of its time and I think ahead of our time. There are also other smaller pearls to discover along the way. The apparent straightforwardness and simplicity of Jon Bentley's writing masks some very deep ideas.

A must read for the ones who enjoyed the first part.

I repurchased this book after my daughter gave my copy away to a friend in Computer Science.This is a great book for people who want to think about how to solve problems, and understand that how you solve a problem determines how fast it will be (or not).