In Agile Software Development: Principles, Patterns, and Practices (ASDP: 3P for short), the world-famous software development expert and software engineering master Robert Cecil Martin (AKA: Uncle Bob) will show you how to solve the most tricky problems software developers, project managers and project leaders are facing. Again, this comprehensive and practical guide for agile software development and extreme programming has the credit from the founders of agile development.

Hacker's Delight is a computer science masterpiece written by Henry S. Warren in 2002. It is the only book that explains the computer algorithm on the market. By contrast, other algorithms related books basically are all about mathematical algorithms. Of course, the mathematical algorithm also mainly serves the computer science, but basically, it doesn't care about the details of computer architectures.

Now, all modern browsers have supported HTML5. Therefore, this is the top priority for each web designer & developer to study and start using HTML5 as soon as possible, in order to enjoy the convenient, fast and powerful functions it brought to web development.

C# is a relatively new and powerful programming language developed and promoted by Microsoft. It has absorbed many advantages from most object-oriented programming languages (especially Java). Meanwhile, it also abandoned the concepts and syntax that easily made programmers feel confused. So, C# has been a very excellent programming language now.

About how hard it is on earth for learning MFC, this should vary from person to person. If you are experienced programmers started from the base Windows OS, you'd likely have been a member of programmers developing the MFC class libraries; on the contrary, if you just have learned few years of Windows programming, then you may have not any knowledge on the underlying system. In the latter case, you must have one book on your desk for reference anytime (every technology needs this). For MFC, it will be Programming Windows with MFC.