DanHulton: One of the best books on programming style and function, backed up with actual research for the recommendations. read comments
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ereyes01: One of the most important books ever written on software engineering practice. Author Frederick Brooks won the Turing Award for this book and for his work on IBM's System/360... read comments
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tashoecraft: Great CI/CD book disguised as a novel, inspired me to push heavily for an improved build/release pipeline at work. read comments
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throwaway124567: A mind bender and short read. I would highly recommend it to any programer as something you should read ASAP. You’ll regret not reading it sooner if your unfamiliar with the concepts. read comments
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wyc: IIRC, throughout the chapters, it has you build some kind of interactive command line music organizer, which really demonstrates how much you can get done with a few simple shell scripts. read comments
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cben: This gives you a phenomenally good survey of concepts and practice of distributed systems... read comments
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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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pcprincipal: Tracy Kidder's 1981 Pulitzer Prize winner I think is a brilliant case study on how engineers work together and the things that can go wrong and right with different personalities interacting... read comments
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wenc: I really liked The Effective Engineer because it had more systems thinking behind rather just how to manage a code project. It covers some really foundational concepts like idempotency which... read comments
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throwaway124567: Very good. It was MITs old CS textbook, it’s still highly relevant. It takes a while to get through and you probably would get the most value out of it if you already have a lot of programming experience. read comments
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henrik_w: Excellent, long interviews with really famous developers and computer scientists. read comments
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microsage: Despite the title, it has many broad programming and software architecture lessons, and "The Unix Philosophy" is applicable far beyond Unix. 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
zimmund: Is a great book to improve how you think about code and the way you implement your solutions. Even if you are a seasoned programmer you'll find it useful. read comments
in: nonfiction | programming | algorithms | computer science
nhumrich: Totally changed how I view budgeting/team management, etc. Helped me learn about my own productivity and how to improve it. Introducing flow and such to me. A lot of other books say... read comments
in: nonfiction | management | business | programming | leadership | computer science
BFatts: A fantastic language-agnostic manual that still applies heavily today. read comments