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Some of my favourite programming books
- icbm504 10y agoGoodies but very oldies. The forerunners of agile.
- khazhou 10y ago> forerunners of agile What do you mean?
- icbm504 10y agoMythical Man Month and Peopleware both deal with managing work: estimating work, problem of quality, feature creep. Agile offers methods to address these same problems, just a little more evolved, imho. * working in sprints forces estimations over smaller pieces of work (aim small, miss small). * sprints, in my experience, challenge feature creep. teams are much more aware of time and challenge anyone making changes to scope. nothing is free. * teams are responsible for dev and testing (e2e); no throwing crap over the wall. These books deal with more than these topics. btw, the quiet room for 2-3 people as described in Peopleware is being thrown out where i work. walls are being torn down to build team collaboration spaces. times have changed.
- cvs268 10y ago@otoolep Have you read Steve McConnell's "Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art" http://amazon.com/Software-Estimation-Demystifying-Developer-Practices/dp/0735605351 http://amazon.com/Software-Estimation-Demystifying-Developer... (if yes, then why isn't it on your list!?)
- otoolep 10y agoHaven't read it. Good?
- ploggingdev 10y agoInteresting to note the famous "hello, world" program that beginners are taught was popularized by the example used in The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie.
- c0achmcguirk 10y agoGood books, all classics. Weinberg's book is frequently cited by one of my favorite tech books, Roy Osherove's Notes to a Software Team Leader. @otoolep, your spam detection missed the one comment to this post. :)
- tomwphillips 10y agoI tried The Mythical Man Month but gave up. Found it extremely slow. I don't understand why it gets so many positive reviews.
- kwhitefoot 10y agoIt's also very short so it should still be easy to get through even if it isn't especially gripping. It gets a lot of positive reviews because it is from a highly credible source who actually did what he was talking about not just wrote about it and because it describes conditions that still obtain; more than forty years later we still haven't learnt all the lessons.
- JTrilogy 10y agoI'm a junior dev with ~2 years experience. Currently I'm primarily doing back-end web work on a massive spaghetti codebase written in Node, Python, and PHP. My current reading list: * Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction - Steve McConnell * Agile Software Development - Robert C. Martin Upcoming reading list: * Node.js Design Patterns - Mario Casciaro * The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master - Andrew Hunt * Clean Code - Robert C. Martin * Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code - Martin Fowler And maybe Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers. If anyone has any comments or other suggested readings I'd love to hear them!