sg0: I like to approach this book from the back (i.e., indices), pick up a topic, and then read the contents one by one. Repeat. read comments
in: nonfiction | programming | computer science
cfeduke: If you had to pick between SICP and Clean Code because time is at a premium I'd err on the side of Clean Code for practicality. Writing maintainable code is paramount. read comments
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BFatts: A fantastic language-agnostic manual that still applies heavily today. read comments
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shawn: I think it's a good one because it's a mix of analysis and history. Thiel had a unique vantage point, and he shares it well. It also challenges you to be ambitious, which is becoming a rare sentiment. read comments
in: nonfiction | business | entrepreneurship
cjsuk: Learned more from that than I did doing an EE degree at university. It gets used to this day even though I bought this copy in 1995. I have the latest edition arriving today. read comments
in: nonfiction | physics | textbooks
engi_nerd: Gorgeous and immensely useful. read comments
in: nonfiction | design | art | comics or graphic novels
DanHulton: One of the best books on programming style and function, backed up with actual research for the recommendations. read comments
in: nonfiction | programming | computer science
cben: This gives you a phenomenally good survey of concepts and practice of distributed systems... read comments
in: nonfiction | programming | computer science | databases
butlersean: After reading I began to think about programming as an algebraic transformation from one system to another, in doing so radically reduced the amount of errors I made. read comments
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organsnyder: Good for learning the mindset of developing backward-compatible APIs in any language read comments
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davidgh: A masterpiece. The age of the book proves it. It is as relevant today as it was when written 30 years ago. The only downside to the book is it will ruin every elevator, door handle and... read comments
in: nonfiction | design | business | psychology
air7: Hands down the book that most influenced me. The book had (for me) not one but several simple-yet-profound ideas that were forever inserted into the foreground of how I make sense of the world. read comments
in: nonfiction | history | philosophy | anthropology
combatentropy: This is like the Elements of Style but for graphs. Again, it encouraged me to cut through the hype and deliver the content as clearly and succinctly as possible --- to serve the reader... read comments
in: nonfiction | design | business
combatentropy: I always enjoyed writing, but at first school taught me to write in a flowery, longwinded way. This was the book that cracked the code for me to good writing. It dispelled a lot of self-serving... read comments
in: nonfiction | writing | language
HeckFeck: If you're interested in something closer to the hardware than Python, why not read about the language that implements Python? It's a programming classic, very concise, easy to read and... read comments