Hello lovely, lovely dev community. ❤️️
I am currently putting together a list of developer resources to put on my blog, Books on Code, and I must know:
What are your absolute favorite, can't-stop-raving-about-them books and online classes?
I know there are plenty of resource lists out there already, but I think I rarely get to hear the books or classes that come top-of-mind to people that altered the history of their dev careers.
My ears are open!!
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I have increased my skills when I have read
Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems
Clean Code - Robert C Martin
MongoDB University
C Language - Brian W.Kernighan, Dennis M.Ritchie
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Hello, I just created a great filtered list about programming books, feel free to check it here: codespot.org/best-books-for-progra...
Dev related: The Pragmatic Programmer
Not dev related, but funny and scary at the same time: Humble Pi: a Comedy of Maths Errors by Matt Parker.
Too cool. Humble Pi is the book this month for the new Adam Savage book club. Here is the announcement on Twitter
cs50
That's two votes for CS50. 🌟
It's that good.
I'm really enjoying reading and learning with Test Driven Development for Embedded C
It's opening my eyes to a new world of testability in C.
Sandi Metz. Practial Object Oriented Programming with Ruby.
amazon.com/Practical-Object-Orient...
Testing with JUnit, Frank Appel
learning.oreilly.com/library/view/...
If you're a vaguely confident with one programming language and are looking for something a bit different - a little bit crazy, a little bit genius, a whole lot of fun - may I recommend:
Land of Lisp
If you're looking for something a bit more practical, again want to learn a new language, explore a bit about how a computer works, but also see how to build useful things (and beautiful things!) well, try:
The Go Programming Language
There are tons of books on programming and related stuff nowadays. And hence usually no reason to buy or read them. They are dull, and we have internet.
I prefer browsing some old books, which don't give you particular instructions like "type this code, download this library, open browser console", but those which give opportunity to think. On my own.
One of nice examples is
Jacques Arsac - Jeux et casse-tête à programmer (French) - Programming of Games and Puzzles (Paperback – 1985)
This has translation into some languages (I read it in Russian for example). The fellow here suggests writing a few dozens "games" of those kind you more like to write than to play. But he don't explain unnecessary things. He motivate reader to think and invent something own.
That's priceless!
FrontEndMasters ... ! Everything is amazing here.
Not exactly connected to coding, but a book I read recently I totally loved is Indistractable by Nir Eyal. My life has improved a lot since I started taking control back from all the devices which are so full of distractions! Very pleasant and easy read, very actionable. Highly recommended.
Sounds valuable. I might just pick it up.
It is golden!
Coding related: eloquentjavascript.net/
Un-related: All the works by Robin Sharma
Love it! For those who haven't read Robin Sharma (he has like a million books), which one do you recommend starting with?
I would recommend The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari to start with :)
a. Microservices and Patterns by Chris Richardson
b. Clean Code by Robert Martin
c. Dive into design patterns by Alexander Shvets
d. Designing event driven systems by Ben Stopford
Clean Code is always the one I hear about.
Perhaps it is mandatory reading for me at this point. 🤔
Clean Code is definitely a must! I would also recommend The Pragmatic Programmer, Clean Architecture, Clean Coder.
Yes! Pragmatic Programmer is on my nightstand.