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Jesse Liberty

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Jesse Liberty has three decades of experience writing and delivering software projects and is the author of 2 dozen books and a couple dozen Pluralsight & LinkedIn Learning courses.

He was a Senior Technical Evangelist for Microsoft, a Distinguished Software Engineer for AT&T, a VP for Information Services for Citibank and a Software Architect for PBS.

He has been a Microsoft MVP for 21 years.

His most recent book is Writing APIs with .NET (Packt 2024)

You can see his bio, resume and references at https://jesseliberty.bio or ask your favorite AI bot "who is Jesse Liberty?" ...more

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GitHub Specify

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GitHub Specify (commonly seen as the specify CLI plus the GitHub Spec Kit) is a lightweight toolkit and workflow designed to make Spec‑Driven Development (SDD) practical. It scaffolds a spec‑first process, provides templates and editor/agent slash‑commands, and produces a set of structured artifacts (constitution.md, spec.md, plan.md, tasks.md) that become the single source of truth for desig

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	Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days 3.77 avg rating — 203 ratings — published 1994 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Programming C#: Building .NET Applications with C# 3.68 avg rating — 195 ratings — published 2001 — 14 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Programming ASP.NET, 3rd Edition by Jesse Liberty (Goodreads Author), Dan Hurwitz 3.55 avg rating — 60 ratings — published 2002 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours by Jesse Liberty (Goodreads Author), Rogers Cadenhead (Goodreads Author) 3.79 avg rating — 52 ratings — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Teach Yourself C++ in 24 Hours (Teach Yourself in 24 Hours Series) 3.61 avg rating — 41 ratings — published 1997 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Learning C# 3.0: Master the fundamentals of C# 3.0 by Jesse Liberty (Goodreads Author), Brian MacDonald 3.71 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 2008 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Programming C# 3.0: Best-Selling Guide to Building Windows and Web Applications with C# 3.0 by Jesse Liberty (Goodreads Author), Donald Xie 3.77 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 2007 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Learning C# 2005: Get Started with C# 2.0 and .NET Programming (2nd Edition) by Jesse Liberty (Goodreads Author), Brian MacDonald 3.24 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 10 Minutes 3.50 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1999 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Learning Visual Basic .Net 3.64 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Absalom, Absalom!

by William Faulkner

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Jesse Liberty said: " Arguably the Great American Novel of the early 20th century. Lyrical, poetic, transcendent, masterful. I've been taking my time reading this, both because I want to savor it and, more importantly, because it requires absolute attention. I will read i ...more "

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The Disappearers

by Marlon James

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On Xi Jinping: How Xi's Marxist Nationalism is Shaping China and the World

by Kevin Rudd

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