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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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Martín Vukovic • Edited

I am "listening" The Pragmatic Programmer via the Coding Blocks podcast. They have a series of episodes about the book ;)

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Jeannie Nguyen • Edited

Nice! How do you like the Coding Blocks podcast and what do you think of the book so far?

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Martín Vukovic

The podcast is interesting, they are experienced developers just talking about a different topic each episode, and they give some cool insights.
The series about the Pragmatic Programmer are some of the best episodes, specially the first couple. There's a lot to process. It gives many things to have a frame of reference when coding, refactoring, planing, even selling projects.

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Nicolas Del Piano

I read the book and this podcast is an awesome way to go over the contents of the book. Thanks!

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Visakh Vijayan

I see a lot of people are reading this. Makes me curious. What is special about this?

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Jeannie Nguyen

It's a good read if you're into constant improvement, Visakh! I consider it a good reference book regardless of which stage of your career you're currently at. There's this post on Medium that breaks down why it's so essential.

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Yuri Costa

Clean Coder, TDD with python, DDD Distilled.

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Bento

I'm currently reading The Lean Startup =)

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Stephen Leyva (He/Him)

Currently reading “The Linux Programming Interface”. There’s a lot of features in the Linux that are typically exposed in most languages and allow you to leverage the full power of the OS. Cool to add tools to the tool box!

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Pablo Herrero

I recently finished Clean Code and now I am with Pragmatic programmer. Two essential books!

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fraybabak

you dont know js async await.

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Jesse

I'm reading Joel On Software; a little outdated (1999-2004), but really insightful stuff regardless 😄

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Peter Kang

I just ordered a Kindle and have Clean Code and Pragmatic Programmer queued up. Reading game about to go crazy 🔥

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Abdisalan

Designing Data Intensive Applications - Really awesome if you want to be a better back-end engineer

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scroung720

Software Engineering at Google I just finished the 8th chapter out of 22. It has very interesting ideas, cover a lot of stuff. I wouldn't say it is a masterpiece but I do recommend it for any CTO or technical leader to read it because it covers many topics.

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Francisco M. Delgado

I just ordered Planning Extreme Programming. Oldie but goodie, I hear.

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Illia Zub

Have you read TDD by Example by the same author?

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Francisco M. Delgado

I have not! Do you recommend?

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Illia Zub

For sure! If you'll enjoy it, I'd also suggest to read GOOSGT. It felt like I observed the everyday job of seasoned programmers in a text mode. The similar feeling I had while watching RailsCasts.

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Nirav Nikhil

Great suggestions for books in the comments, but I'll suggest some interesting blogs.

  1. Steve Yegge: Great writing style, powerful ideas
  2. Joel on Software: Absolutely essential advice
  3. James Mickens: Extremely fun stream-of-consciousness writing, just try one of his pieces

The great thing about blogs is that they will often just plant seeds of ideas in your head, and you get to think for yourself. Know more cool blogs? List them below.

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Marc Jerome

I finished reading TDD with python last month. It was a nice book to read for a programmer without testing experience because not only it taught me about the topic, it emphasized the importance and value of testing.

Last week I read the docs of django rest framework and also another ebook about it which is recommended by the docs. I got the concept but it's kinda missing something so I decided to read "The design of Web APIs". So far, I can say it's a good book that gives you priniciples in designing APIs.

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