My own list of books
Listed in order of publication. Not all
of these are currently available.
Computer Interfacing with Pascal &
C (Self-published via the Eisys imprint, 1988. Only available via
www.BruceEckel.com). An introduction to electronics from back when CP/M
was still king and DOS was an upstart. I used high-level languages and often the
parallel port of the computer to drive various electronic projects. Adapted from
my columns in the first and best magazine I wrote for, Micro Cornucopia
(To paraphrase Larry O’Brien, long-time editor of Software
Development Magazine: the best computer magazine ever published – they
even had plans for building a robot in a flower pot!) Alas, Micro C became lost
long before the Internet appeared. Creating this book was an extremely
satisfying publishing experience.
Using C++ (Osborne/McGraw-Hill
1989). One of the first books out on C++. This is out of print and replaced by
its second edition, the renamed C++ Inside & Out.
C++ Inside & Out
(Osborne/McGraw-Hill 1993). As noted, actually the 2nd edition of
Using C++. The C++ in this book is reasonably accurate, but it's circa
1992 and Thinking in C++ is intended to replace it. You can find out more
about this book and download the source code at
www.BruceEckel.com.
Thinking in C++, 1st
edition (Prentice-Hall 1995).
Black Belt C++, the Master’s
Collection, Bruce Eckel, editor (M&T Books 1994). Out of print. A
collection of chapters by various C++ luminaries based on their presentations in
the C++ track at the Software Development Conference, which I chaired. The cover
on this book stimulated me to gain control over all future cover
designs.
Thinking in Java, 2nd
edition (Prentice-Hall, 2000). The first edition of this book won the
Software Development Magazine Productivity Award and the Java
Developer’s Journal Editor’s Choice Award in 1999. Downloadable
from www.BruceEckel.com.