Coding magazines

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So, we have coding books, coding RSS feeds, and music to code by. Are there any coding magazines that anyone would recommend?

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score 21 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 02 '08 at 19:30

The venerable Dr. Dobbs Journal is still pretty good. It covers multiple platforms, and mixes some fairly hard-core technical articles with lighter fare (interviews with notables, a "Developer Diaries" column that profiles regular-Joe (and Jane) developers from a range of fields). If you are employed and have authority to spend some non-trivial amount of money on tools (or are willing to claim that you do), you can probably get them to send it to you for free.

For the Microsoft world, MSDN Magazine is very useful. Some of their columns are excellent, particularly Jeff Richter's Concurrent Affairs.

score 6 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 15 '10 at 22:46

The Pragmatic Programmers' Pragmatic Bookshelf publishes a free magazine available online and for download in various formats:

Each month, our editor Michael Swaine brings you a free magazine packed full of interesting articles, features, and departments. Download it in PDF, mobi (good for the Kindle), and epub (great for Stanza on the iPhone).

spoulson · Answer 3 · 2011-02-03T16:05:29.390

I also enjoy Dr. Dobb's Journal. But hey, there's a way to leech it for free (at the time of writing, anyway):

http://pages.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/cmp/ddj<mm><yy>/offline/cmp_ddj<mm><yy>_pdf.zip

Replace <mm> and <yy> with month and year. They're available 8/2006 thru 2/2009.

Afterwards, it's known as Dr. Dobb's Digest and is instead available at URL pattern:

http://i.cmpnet.com/ddj/digest/<yyyy>/DDD_<mm><yy>.pdf

score 4 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 02 '08 at 19:27

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Dr. Dobbs Journal is a pretty good broad-based programmer's journal. Covers all manner of material.

answered Sep 02 '08 at 19:27

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score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 29 '08 at 16:00

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For the Perl crowd, there is of course The Perl Review. And for the German-speaking subset of it, there's the Foo Magazin as well.

answered Sep 29 '08 at 16:00

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score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 02 '08 at 19:34

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Game Developer Magazine has lots of very good articles, though as you might expect they tend to skew towards C++.

answered Sep 02 '08 at 19:34

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score 2 · Answer 7 · answered Sep 03 '08 at 05:00

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Visual Studio Magazine has some gems every once in awhile

answered Sep 03 '08 at 05:00

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score 2 · Answer 8 · answered Sep 05 '08 at 19:45

I like Dr. Dobb's Journal also but the magazine refers the reader to their web site for most of the interesting articles. I have found the Java Developer's Journal very interesting because it contains articles about Java in the context of both web and enterprise applications.

score 1 · Answer 9 · answered Sep 30 '08 at 20:35

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Python Magazine of course ! BTW they are looking for contributors...

answered Sep 30 '08 at 20:35

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score 1 · Answer 10 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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VSJ, I find it a great mag :) http://www.vsj.co.uk/

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This is NOT off-topic! It directly relates to programming!

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answered Sep 02 '08 at 19:19

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score 1 · Answer 11 · answered Sep 02 '08 at 19:31

I subscribe to MSDN magazine, it's a bit thinner now than in years past, but for .NET it covers a variety of topics, it's a good way to keep abreast of new Microsoft offerings.

All the content is available online on MSDN, and of course online resources/blogs are a lot more up to date, but sometimes it's nice to have a magazine in your bag for a flight or layover.

score 1 · Answer 12 · answered Sep 02 '08 at 19:37

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I really enjoy IEEE Software because it covers broader issues regarding software engineering.

answered Sep 02 '08 at 19:37

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score 1 · Answer 13 · answered Sep 03 '08 at 05:02

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Definitely Your Sinclair. Hands down.

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score 1 · Answer 14 · answered Sep 03 '08 at 21:14

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I really enjoy Code and asp.netPRO ... Visual Studio is so-so.

answered Sep 03 '08 at 21:14

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score 1 · Answer 15 · answered Sep 05 '08 at 19:19

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The ACCU mags, Overload and C-Vu.

I like Game Developers Magazine, but since the ECTS no longer runs I no longer get free ones anymore:-(

answered Sep 05 '08 at 19:19

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Are they really good , i am planning to request our library to subscribe to them ? – Suraj Jain Feb 11 '17 at 08:12
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They are a little thin but interesting reading. – graham.reeds Feb 11 '17 at 15:10

score 0 · Answer 16 · answered Oct 14 '08 at 06:53

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For Delphi delvelopers "Blaise" international magazine - www.blaisepascal.eu

answered Oct 14 '08 at 06:53

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score 0 · Answer 17 · answered Sep 03 '08 at 04:29

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I like Embedded Systems. Even if you don't program for embedded systems, the software articles are excellent. http://www.embedded.com/

answered Sep 03 '08 at 04:29

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score 0 · Answer 18 · answered Sep 05 '08 at 19:24

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Both the IEEE and ACM put out a number of good computing magazines, which might be of interest depending on your exact interests. I'm a subscriber to both.

answered Sep 05 '08 at 19:24

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score 0 · Answer 19 · answered Sep 05 '08 at 19:56

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The ACM Queue has some hardcore content, dense, but good. I haven't read it in a while though.

answered Sep 05 '08 at 19:56

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