Hi all, I'm new to Nuclear Phynance but wanted to share a useful list of texts which may help in developing/improving your skills around OO programming (primarily C++).

·         The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte

·         The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas

·         Design Patterns by Erich Gamma

·         Refactoring by Martin Fowler

·         Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship by Robert C. Martin

·         Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (Pragmatic Programmers) by Andy Hunt

·         Elements of Programming by Alexander Stepanov and Paul McJones

·         The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup

·         Effective C++ by Scott Meyers

·         Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley

·         Beautiful Code by Andy Oram and Greg Wilson

·         Coders at Work by Peter Seibel

·         Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman and Julie Sussman

·         Concepts, Techniques and Models of Computer Programming by Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi

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