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Discussion on: How to write clear and concise documentation

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Erik Melone • Edited

I have honestly struggled to find many good books on documentation from a Software Engineering perspective. There is a lot of literature and content out there around "Technical Writing" from a general perspective that you could look into. I personally have not read too much in this area since none of it seems applicable to my job as a Software Engineer.

That being said, here are two excellent books that look at writing documentation from more of a Software Engineers perspective:

I also plan to write a whole lot more on the topic, looking to publish a post weekly. So, you can also stay tuned for that!

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Jan Küster

Thanks for the two links I will definitely stay tuned as I currently see the benefits of documentation with onboarding my juniors