| Head First Servlets and JSP: Passing the Sun Certified Web Component Developer Exam (SCWCD) | Bryan Basham, Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates |
| Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design: A Brain Friendly Guide to OOA&D (Head First) | Brett D. McLaughlin, Gary Pollice, Dave West |
| Head First EJB (Brain-Friendly Study Guides; Enterprise JavaBeans) | Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates |
| The C Programming Language (2nd Edition) | Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie |
| The C++ Programming Language (Special 3rd Edition) | Bjarne Stroustrup |
| C++: The Complete Reference, 4th Edition | Herbert Schildt |
| STL Programming from the Ground Up | Herbert Schildt |
| Unix Distributed Programming | Chris Brown |
| Core Java 2, Volume I: Fundamentals (6th Edition) | Cay Horstmann, Gary Cornell |
| Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture | Martin Fowler |
| Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) | Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John M. Vlissides |
| DNS and BIND, Fourth Edition | Paul Albitz, Cricket Liu |
| Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition | Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, Andy Hunt |
| Agile Web Development with Rails, 2nd Edition | Dave Thomas, David Hansson, Leon Breedt, Mike Clark, James Duncan Davidson, Justin Gehtland, Andreas Schwarz |
| The Ruby Way, Second Edition: Solutions and Techniques in Ruby Programming (2nd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) | Hal Fulton |
| Enterprise Integration with Ruby | Maik Schmidt |
| Ruby Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly)) | Lucas Carlson, Leonard Richardson |
| Rails Recipes (Pragmatic Programmers) | Chad Fowler |
| Rails Cookbook (Cookbooks (O'Reilly)) | Rob Orsini |
| The Rails Way (Addison-Wesley Professional Ruby Series) | Obie Fernandez |