This book taught me an awful lot about software engineering. From learning a little bit of a language, then learning a powerful framework, then going back and

This book taught me an awful lot about software engineering. From learning a little bit of a language, then learning a powerful framework, then going back and mastering the language to mastering git (commit early, commit often!) to test driven development to client side JavaScript, to serverside, to SQL and relational databases. This book is packed and well worth its price (free online, to boot!). Michael Hartl, if you're reading these comments, I attribute much of my best Software Engineering practices to you. This book focuses on Ruby and Rails, but it is one of my favorite programming books that I always recommend.