This may be a somewhat late-in-the-game post since its really been quite some time since the release of this thing, but I was just spending some time organizing some previously-downloaded files on my laptop and I stumbled across my copy of the Foundations of Programming E-Book by Karl Seguin.

Kindred Spirit

Every now and then in your career as a developer (or any other professional in a creative field for that matter), you stumble across someone or something that makes you go…

"That’s exactly what I always thought, but couldn’t possibly express it that well".

Karl’s book is just that item for me; in one 79-page well-organized and quite well-written document, Karl has managed to capture the ethos of the ALT.NET movement in re: our concerns, foci, values, and principles.  Just as when I ‘discovered’ ALT.NET and said "these guys are trying to formalize and verbalize the values I’ve always believed in", Karl’s book does the same in a very approachable manner that is simple for the ALT.NET neophyte to grasp and can serve as a wonderful introduction to the principles and values that ALT.NET holds dear at the core of our professional beliefs.

GO DOWNLOAD THIS E-BOOK NOW!!!

So even though its been out for some time now, if you are one of the .NET developers who happened not to be aware of this book’s existence, I cannot recommend it highly enough.  At free, you cannot quibble with its cost and at less than 80-pages in length, you can easily consume it in one sitting of about an hour.

I guarantee you will come away a better software developer for your time.