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What Book(s) Are You Currently Reading To Be a Better Programmer?

I just started The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas.

You can view the list of tips to become a better programmer from The Pragmatic Programmer here.

What book(s) are you reading right now?

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Brian Hannaway

I'm reading Release It! by Michael Nygard, for the second time. I really love this book... It focuses on patterns and practices that help you build robust, production ready applications. There are lots of stories about real life production issues and incidents, along with measures taken to resolve them. The book doesn't focus on any particular tech stack, so its a great read no matter what stack you're working with.

There's a revised version available which I'm hopefully going to get my hands on soon.

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Illia Zub

Just finished This is Marketing and now revising Skin in the Game.

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Benjamin Trent • Edited

Good programmers avoid burnout, love creating/nurturing things, and are effective writers.

Consequently, I have been reading New Collected Poems by Wendell Berry. Its a collection of poems by a farmer in Kentucky. Helps put things in perspective.

Don't get stuck only reading technical things.

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Christian Javellana

Confluent’s free ebook
confluent.io/designing-event-drive...

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chuylerma • Edited

Eloquent Ruby is a good book that I wished to read before I started to Code in ruby. Anyway never is to late to improve my ruby' skills :)

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Carlos A.

Thanks for the link. About a book I'm reading, UML @ Classroom - An introduction to Object Oriented Modeling.

I want to get/set an image of the required system, so I can stop wandering with the IDE and check the correct files. Also to better describe the system/problem to my peers.

The path to be a senior is quite long.

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Jeannie Nguyen

Haha, it definitely is a long path, Carlos! But we'll get there!

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Illia Zub

Sandi Metz's POODR is brilliant! Have you ever read Confident Ruby by Avdi Grimm?

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I read that one last year, but I didnt do the examples which I think was huge mistake, might re-read it while doing the examples.

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Lex Ned

I just finished reading Clean Architecture by Robert C. Martin. It was a good read. For the most part, the book presented the ideas from Clean Code from the point of view of the architect. For me, part 5, Architecture was the most interesting. Although I don't feel like I gained new knowledge from the Clean Architecture book, it gave me good exercises for thought.

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Jens Genberg

Functional Programming in C#.
manning.com/books/functional-progr...

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