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5 Non-Programming Books That Inspire Me to Become a Better Programmer

mogwai on July 08, 2020

Who's this for? For the individual who loves to color outside the lines sometimes; the sort of person who thinks of programming as yet a...
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Nice work Justin. I'm sure I'll love everyone of them. My maths has been slacking of late, quarter life crisis maybe. I'll look to read them some time soon. I'm currently on CS Lewis' Mere Christianity and Ben Horowitz's The hard thing about Hard Things.

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I thoroughly enjoyed reading your review of these books you've recommended and you've got me so amped in reading them. Thank you :)

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mogwai

Haha, thank you!

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Solomon Osadolo

This is dope, Justin. I haven't read SF this year yet, and I suddenly feel the need to. Coming to hound you for the books now.

PS: I love maths. So... Update that line, maybe :')

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mogwai

Ah, foiled by my own friend! 💀

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sontru

I would recommend Simon Singh's The Code Book and Fermat's Last Theorem.

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mogwai

Thanks for your recommendation. Will add these to my library tonight!

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Akwasi Konadu Akuoko

Thank you.

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Ichoku Great Chinonso

Thank you very Justin for this piece, I enjoyed every piece of it till the end.

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Rubens Guarnieri dos Santos

Created an account just to save this.
Great text, thank you for sharing all this! <3

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mogwai

Let me be the first to welcome you to DEV, Rubens! Thanks for reading!

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Cowardly Man

This is great

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mogwai

Thank you for reading!

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LemonSpike • Edited

Awesome, nice variety of books! I read this article and then I realized that I need to read more books.