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Do you read books? Recommend one! πŸ“š

Dev on Remote on April 02, 2024

Doing a small personal research here. How many of you actually read books on software development (I don't mean buying and collecting them :P)? A...
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Renan Ferro

By the way, nice topic!

So this one is really different (not about development, but it's a good choice)

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Dev on Remote • Edited

Read this one, really makes you think about life and not only. it changed how I perceive some things. Also recommend this one!

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Renan Ferro

Surely you have also read β€œThe Courage to Be Happy”? It looks interesting too...

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Dev on Remote

Wasn't aware about this one. Did you read it? From what I see its also using Adler's psychology, so it might be nice.

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Renan Ferro • Edited

Not yet, but I'll read it!

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Shariq Ahmed

Currently reading this and so far it's amazing

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Renan Ferro

Yes, really cool and interesting the way we think about life, right?

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Michael Tharrington

Well, I'm in camp #4... at least when it comes to programming books. πŸ˜…

That said, I wanna give a shout out to @integerman who I know recently published a book in the past year for all those C# devs out there.

Refactoring with C#

Also, I'm a Community Manager at DEV and seeing your post reminds me that I should advocate for us to add polling abilities. We've discussed it previously but haven't yet been able to move on that functionality. I'll remind the team!

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Matt Eland

Thanks @michaeltharrington! I had a blast writing it and it's great to write in public.

If my book interest you, it's 10% off for the next week on Amazon, but if you like digital it's also featured in its first Humble Bundle at the moment and that's far more affordable than purchasing the book alone.

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Rachel Fazio

I like to think that I am a pretty good reader but don't read many software dev books!

This year I read a few that are related to general career stuff + one HTML book for a course I was in!

  1. HTML & CSS design and build websites by Jon Duckett
  2. Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman (Loved this book. Of course. Read it. Yes.)
  3. Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordan MacKenzie (More of just a general career-related book about an illustrator who works at Hallmarkβ€” this was so fun and great to read. )
  4. Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad by Austin Kleon (Honestly, I have books I would recommend over this one but I do think it was a nice quick read!)
  5. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell (If you get one thing out of this message please read this book. I love this book. It was incredible. Highly suggested read that summarizes the perils of the anthropocene, reconnecting with nature, and crafting balance in your life..... among so many other things.)

Okay I take it back I think this is a pretty impressive list.

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Dev on Remote

I will start, for me its nr.2 and The Pragmatic Programmer, really like this one πŸš€ Cheers!

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DΓ©nes Kellner

SQL Performance Tuning, by Peter Gulutzan & Trudy Pelzer

These guys know everything I learned the hard way during my 20+ years of optimizing SQL - and gave me a lot more! This book finally tells you why your queries are slow and how you can make it easier for the server to find out & return what you ask for. Just put it on the shelf! You'll find yourself reaching for it every now and then, and it's gonna save you days of headache.

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Cesar Aguirre • Edited

1) here. But this year I decided to change my approach from reading just for the sake of reading and keeping a list of read books (just in case learning) to reading for the sake of answering questions or facing a challenge (just in time learning)

Here's my to-read list from last year:
The Programmer's Brain
Your Code as a Crime Scene (that title man!)
Designing Data Intensive Applications
Working Effectively with Legacy Code

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Dev on Remote

Only heard about Designing Data Intensive Applications. All added to my list! :D Damn so many good recommendations came out from this short post :P

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Schalk Neethling

Number two, but then I am a technical reviewer for O'Reilly so not really fair :)

Recommendations:

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Dev on Remote

I try to be framework agnostic, looking for some general knowledge. All of your books fit this criteria. Thanks!

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Prasad Saya

I have a copy of "Database Design for Mere Mortals", by Michael J. Hernandez - I am using for reference.

Then, I also have a copy of "The Goodbye Cat", by Hiro Arikawa. This might not be a bad choice for reading while travelling by train.

I am also referring "Understanding Exposure", by Bryan Peterson. This book is about photography and its basic concepts - mostly for learning.

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Athreya aka Maneshwar • Edited

Non-Designer's Design Book

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Dev on Remote

This one is interesting and its sth I actually need. Thanks @lovestaco!

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Mike Talbot ⭐

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My favourite book on technology is The Art of Game Design - it makes you look at everything differently in my experience, not only games but interfaces too.

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adriens

I've just finished the following one which was an excellent one :

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Dev on Remote

The link to goodreads doesn't work, here is a link to their page if someone is interested to learn more about it -> link

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adriens

Also, the download link

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Abhishek

Some of the best books that I would personally recommend are:
1-> Deep work (teaches you about how to work at an elite level and doing work hard to replicate )

2-> atomic habits(everyone should read this once in their life, teaches you how to build good habits and how to break bad habits by scientifically proven methods)

3-> zero to one (Book by a member of PayPal mafia i.e Peter Theil in which he teaches you about how to build profitable , scalable and sustainable startups)

Hope you find this useful, Happy reading

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Dev on Remote

I agree zero to one and atomic habits are dope. I didn't read Deep work yet, but I've put it on the list :P

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Danial Hakim

The Art of Thinking Clearly

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Dev on Remote

Hehe, I need that XD

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Guilherme Ananias

Nice topic, BTW!

In the last year, I read 12 books (it was my year challenge). In case, some good books related to programming that I REALLY recommend to anyone are:

  • Designing Data Intensive Applications
  • High Performance Browser Networking
  • Database Internals
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Alex Lau

Effortless by Greg McKeown isn't a software book, but it's helped me a lot in the way that I think about software and writing clean code.

When it comes to books that are strictly in the realm of coding, The Pragmatic Programmer is the one I wish I had at the beginning of my career. I know this one tends to make everyone's list, but there's a good reason for that πŸ˜„

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Alejandro A.

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I read many books to learn new things or improve my skills. It ranges from data and programming to game development. I like having the physical thing, but I also get a lot of ebooks from amazon and humble bundles.

Right now, I'm enjoying Grokking algorithms, Low Poly with Blender, and a couple of GCP Data Engineering books.

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Volker B. Duetsch

If you are into golang, I think this is a must go: manning.com/books/100-go-mistakes-...

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Garrett / G66
  1. I've read 5 or more books in the last year.

The only book I aggressively recommend is The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy.

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HighDukeVeljko

4 Learn Python the Hard Way by Zed A. Shaw, Greg Newman

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Anderson Oliveira Bezerra

Eu li recentemente Hit Refresh do Satya Nadella, mostra como foi reformular a microsoft, nΓ£o e focado em desenvolvimento mas fala muito do open-source que a microsoft adotou.

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Alvaro

Weapons of math destruction

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