Books by Ronald Mak
I've written four books on computer software and most recently wrote a chapter for a fifth. This latest book, Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think, just won the Jolt Award for general books. So now I own a piece of an "Oscar"! The publisher is O'Reilly.
The last book that I wrote completely, The Martian Principles for Successful Enterprise Systems: 20 Lessons Learned from NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Mission is about the principles for developing successful enterprise systems. It's based on my over 20 years of experience developing enterprise software, and I illustrated it with examples and anecdotes from my work at NASA. John Wiley is the publisher.
My earlier book, Java Number Cruncher: The Java Programmer's Guide to Numerical Computing is on numerical computing using Java. It uses many graphical and interactive demo programs to illustrate basic concepts of numerical methods. Prentice Hall PTR is the publisher.
I also wrote two books on writing compilers and interpreters. Both books used Pascal as the language to compile and interpret. I wrote the programs of the first one in C, and I used C++ for the second one. I developed the code with an incremental approach. At each step of the way, I had a working program illustrate the concepts. John Wiley also publishes these two books.
By the way, if you want to write a computer book yourself, I strongly recommend getting a literary agent, especially if it's your first book. Waterside Productions represented me for all four books.
Here's some information about my books and links to buy them from amazon.com and elsewhere:
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