The first one I finished was The Mythical Man Month. At the time, high school, I doubted if I was good enough for programming. So I started reading through Jeff

The first one I finished was The Mythical Man Month. At the time, high school, I doubted if I was good enough for programming. So I started reading through Jeff Atwood's recommended books: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/02/recommended-reading-for-developers.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2004/02/recommended-reading... It was not until I came across Jeff Atwood's fizz buzz post that I started to belief I could program. The Mythical Man Month opened up my eyes to the fundamental difficulty of programming. In contrast to the typo based difficulty I was going through at the time. Thus between Man Month and Jeff Atwood I determined that I was capable of programming and that it would be a challenge worth pursuing.