35.5. Joining a Professional Organization

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One of the best ways to learn more about programming is to get in touch with other programmers who are as dedicated to the profession as you are. Local user groups for specific hardware and language products are one kind of group. Other kinds are national and international professional organizations. The most practitioner-oriented organization is the IEEE Computer Society, which publishes the IEEE Computer and IEEE Software magazines. For membership information, see http://www.computer.org.

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The original professional organization was the ACM, which publishes Communications of the ACM and many special-interest magazines. It tends to be somewhat more academically oriented than the IEEE Computer Society. For membership information, see http://www.acm.org.