I wrote one of the books on the list, Foundations of Programming. It's a free ebook, largely focused at .NET developers. I'm also finishing off a more focused

I wrote one of the books on the list, Foundations of Programming. It's a free ebook, largely focused at .NET developers. I'm also finishing off a more focused follow up (on github, https://github.com/karlseguin/Foundations-of-Programming-2 https://github.com/karlseguin/Foundations-of-Programming-2). The reception of the book, and the company people sometimes place it with, has always been humbling. I'm generally not a huge tech-book reader. It isn't how I like to consume such material, but I see the value. To me, Peopleware was likely the most influential book. This is probably largely because I read it relatively young - when I was easier to influence. I also spent the first part of my career in a Microsoft world, where many, many tech books are (or at least were) little more than reference bibles - regurgitating content found on MSDN. edit I'd also like to point out that, as an amateur tech writer, The C Programming Language was very influential. Such a perfectly written, simple and useful book.I used to read it every year, and was amazed at how much content was contained within its pages, and how easy it was to understand. I'd also be sad if I didn't mention some of _why's work, the most influential to me was his Shoes manual.