📚 Tell me your ABSOLUTE favorite books and online classes

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!!

Comments

[Grigoriy Skobelev]

I have increased my skills when I have read
Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems

[larswww]

Clean Code - Robert C Martin

MongoDB University

• especially the courses on Data Modeling, Performance and Aggregation. It'll show you what mongodb really can do and make building apps sooo much easier. With less code.

[Rino Sapere]

C Language - Brian W.Kernighan, Dennis M.Ritchie

[Saurabh]

+1

[Aleksandar Vasilevsk]

Hello, I just created a great filtered list about programming books, feel free to check it here: codespot.org/best-books-for-progra...

[Rikke K. Petersen]

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.

[Miranda]

Too cool. Humble Pi is the book this month for the new Adam Savage book club. Here is the announcement on Twitter

[Saurabh]

cs50

[Miranda]

That's two votes for CS50. 🌟

[Saurabh]

It's that good.

[James dengel]

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.

[Dimitri Marion]

• CSS in Depth
• Programming in Haskell: a good introduction to functionnal programming and Haskell.

[Marek Jay]

Sandi Metz. Practial Object Oriented Programming with Ruby.

amazon.com/Practical-Object-Orient...

Testing with JUnit, Frank Appel
learning.oreilly.com/library/view/...

[David Wickes]

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