Peopleware is an absolute classic. I stumbled across it when I found Joel Spolsky's Book Reviews page back in 2002: http://new.joelonsoftware.com/navLinks/fog0

Peopleware is an absolute classic. I stumbled across it when I found Joel Spolsky's Book Reviews page back in 2002: http://new.joelonsoftware.com/navLinks/fog0000000262.html http://new.joelonsoftware.com/navLinks/fog0000000262.html If you want to be a good programmer, you'll do yourself a service by reading pretty much everything on that page. In general there's wisdom in classic books and software development is no exception: you can learn a ton about becoming great from books written 20+ years ago.