Hey Frans,

Do you have a list of essential resources (books)? Basically if you were teaching a university course or a series of courses on object relational mapping what books would your students have to buy? Which ones would be in the 100 level, 200 level, etc...

I only believe in books which teach general computer science material, so if I'd have to pick books, I'd pick

• D. Knuth's work on algorithms.
• Code Complete, McConnell
• The original GoF book perhaps.
• Yourdon's work on information analysis.
• and because I'm a fan, T.A. Halpin's / Nijssen's books on information analysis and modelling. (around NIAM/ ORM mostly)

But I've been away from the curriculum's of current universities for a long time, so I don't know what the books of today are. What I'd like to see more as well is that people are made aware of CS research papers: that they search in Google scholar for papers about a subject and learn how to read science papers and how to filter them to get to the real gems (e.g., check abstracts, learn how they're build up and why the references are very helpful and often lead to a greater set of good papers to read)

For example, I have the arXiv RSS feed on CS papers in my google reader: http://export.arxiv.org/rss/cs

It gives a new fresh list of papers every 2-3 days (10-20 per refresh). Often they're very detailed, but sometimes true gems are in there, and what's more: leading to papers which are also worth reading through the references, papers which are often much older.

Thanks for the list, it is exactly what I was asking for. The university course thing was just a primer in case asking for a generic list of books was to vague. Thanks again.

I would be interested in a "Farns's recommended reading" list. And speaking of books, I think its unfair to all of us here that you are contributing to some of the books out there without giving us a heads up.

I am currently reading "Applying Domain-Driven Design and Patterns: With Examples in C# and .NET By Jimmy Nilsson" and you have contributed to part of the appendix-A "The Database Model Is the Domain Model". I am really looking forward to reading it along the rest but I would really appreciate you telling us about such contributions from your side.

Thats the least we deserve for being in your fan club