Graduated in Digital Media M.Sc. now developing the next generation of educational software. Since a while I develop full stack in Javascript using Meteor. Love fitness and Muay Thai after work.
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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:
Graduated in Digital Media M.Sc. now developing the next generation of educational software. Since a while I develop full stack in Javascript using Meteor. Love fitness and Muay Thai after work.
Very focused and on point. Any good literature you can suggest on documentation and concepts like these?
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!
Thanks for the two links I will definitely stay tuned as I currently see the benefits of documentation with onboarding my juniors
Google has a course about technical writing, it is a good starting point
developers.google.com/tech-writing