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

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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?

Oldest comments (34)

Martín Vukovic • Aug 21 '20 • Edited

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

Jeannie Nguyen • Aug 21 '20 • Edited

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

Martín Vukovic • Aug 21 '20

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.

Nicolas Del Piano • Aug 23 '20

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

Visakh Vijayan • Aug 21 '20

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

Jeannie Nguyen • Aug 23 '20

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.

Yuri Sales • Aug 21 '20

Clean Coder, TDD with python, DDD Distilled.

Bento • Aug 21 '20

I'm currently reading The Lean Startup =)

Stephen Leyva (He/Him) • Aug 21 '20

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!