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Discussion on: The Books That Made All The Difference To Me As A Developer

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Bernard Farrell

Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers is a gem. Given you'll mostly work with legacy code, which includes stuff you wrote 6+ months ago, this book gives really useful practical advice on getting existing code under test.

I've given away too many copies of this book to colleagues. It's invaluable.

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Lui

Thank you for recommending this here. I would go as far as call it the most valuable I've read the last 4 years. I read clean code, clean coder, pragmatic programmer, mythical man month, the goal, the Phoenix project (really good), and some more that I can't recommend.