Books you want to read this year (2019)?

Kang-Li Cheng — Tue, 16 Apr 2019 17:18:24 +0000

Been really enjoying the books and reading discussions here, thought I'd start one for 2019 though to get some new titles discussed.

I always have a big list of books I want to read but this year I'm determined to pick out a few to actually read cover to cover (or close at least). My list is heavily weighted towards programming but I'm hoping to add some variety hence the "Fun" section.

Career related knowledge/skills

Site Reliability Engineering by Beyer "Google Book" (possibly aspiring to be an SRE)
How Linux Works
The Linux Command Line
Database Systems, The Complete Book by Ullman
Designing Data Intensive Applications by Kleppmann (started last year, halfway through)

General Interest

Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies by Narayanan et al.
A Programmer's Introduction to Mathematics

Fun!

Pet Sematary by Stephen King
Journey Without Maps [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journey_Without_Maps]

Best programming or software engineering related books of 2018?

Kang-Li Cheng — Fri, 05 Apr 2019 23:17:03 +0000

There were some pretty popular threads on stackoverflow discussing most influential programming books and the like but they got closed because open ended questions don't fit SO's format. What books did you read last year that you found helpful, interesting, inspiring, or otherwise worthy of note?

I'll kick it off by mentioning Practical Object Oriented Design by Sandi Metz. Finally found a great reference on making decisions when dealing with (OO) program design. She provides many examples and goes through a lot of standard definitions of concepts and teaches you the framework of making good design choices. Definitely felt more comfortable making design decisions after reading it.

Edit: Some books I read a few pages from last year and plan to continue reading this year were Designing Data Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann, and Effective Java by Joshua Bloch.

Note: I know there's a thread out there called must read tech books of 2018. Would like to keep this thread more focused on programming and engineering since tech encompasses a more than just programming...

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Books you want to read this year (2019)?

Best programming or software engineering related books of 2018?