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Dr. Dobb's Journal
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Sales Rank: 871
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List Price: $59.40
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Dr. Dobb's Journal is the leading magazine for software developers. For more than 25 years it has been the foremost source of software tools for the professional programmer. It is written and edited by programmers for programmers. With DDJ you'll get algorithms, coding tips, discussions of fundamental design issues, and program listings guaranteed to make you a better programmer.
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Dr. Dobb's Journal is the leading magazine for software developers. For more than 25 years it has been the foremost source of software tools for the professional programmer. It is written and edited by programmers for programmers. With DDJ you'll get algorithms, coding tips, discussions of fundamental design issues, and program listings guaranteed to make you a better programmer.
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Any review placing this shell of a former mag in a five-star category doesn't remember how good it used to be, doesn't have anything to compare it against, or hasn't read it lately. I'll be blunt: this isn't Dr. Dobbs. This is an imitation of Dr. Dobbs, now with less content than ever before. I started a subscription recently after letting mine lapse a few years ago, and my first thought was how thin this magazine had gotten. Ads galore, the venerable PC-Lint product is still throwing code at readers with aspirations of deification, but a decided *lack* of relevant content. Then I thought about it, and here's the problem: Dr. Dobbs wants to cover practical computer science each month, but it's gotten too big (too specialized, too complex, too broad) to cover well in a single magazine weighing less than ten pounds per month. Add to this the absolute panoply, the metaphoric world of resources now available today just with some decent Google skills, and Dr. Dobbs is suddenly less relevant, less *necessary* than it once was. You can still get algorithmic optimization lessons in an issue or two. Once in awhile, you'll get something worth that issue's cover price. More often than not, you'll read about things you don't use, or don't understand, because in reality, nobody can keep up with every trend in CS. The ACM and IEEE have about 150 specialized magazines just to make the attempt, so how can Dr. Dobbs even pretend to be a full spectrum resource? No, Dr. Dobbs had a primary mission once that could make it great again: talk about the code. Code, code, and more code, and the less esoteric, the better. There are 50 million COBOL programmers in the world, and five XSLT-SOAP-webMethods package writers. What's more relevant, even today?
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