080: 10 Books Android developers should read

In this episode Donn and Kaushik recommend 10 books on Software programming that they think every Android developer would greatly benefit from reading. These are books that helped them become better programmers and have had the most impact in their daily lives as Android developers.

Show Notes

1. Effective Java - Joshua Bloch
2. Effective Java Items (Fragmented fragments)
3. Working effectively with legacy code - Michael Feathers
4. Head first Design Patterns
5. Don't make me think - Steve Krug, 3rd edition
6. Java Concurrency in Practice
7. XUnit testing patterns
8. Website xunitpatterns.com
9. Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture - Martin Fowler
10. Javascript the good parts - Douglas Crockford
11. Gary Bernhardt - WAT
12. Clean Code - Robert.C.Martin
13. Clean Code: Writing code for humans (Puralsight)
14. Coders at Work - Peter Seibel

Honorable mentions

• Release it
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Gang of Four)
• Pragmatic Programmer
• CODE - The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
• Soft Skills - John Sonmez
• Deskbound - Kelly Starett
  • 8 steps to a pain free back - Esther Gokhale

Contact

• @fragmentedcast [twitter.com]
• @donnfelker and +DonnFelker
• @kaushikgopal and +KaushikGopalIsMe

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