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Arguably the 20 most influential books for software engineers.
Most of us spent years on a CS degree and were assigned almost none of them.
1 The Pragmatic Programmer
2 Designing Data-Intensive Applications
3 Clean Code
4 The Mythical Man-Month
5 Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
6 Working Effectively with Legacy Code
7 Software Architecture: The Hard Parts
8 Database Internals
9 Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track
10 Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
11 A Philosophy of Software Design
12 Why Programs Fail: A Guide to Systematic Debugging
13 Code Complete
14 Introduction to Algorithms
15 The C Programming Language
16 The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms
17 Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
18 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
19 Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
20 Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
How many have you read?
Most of us spent years on a CS degree and were assigned almost none of them.
1 The Pragmatic Programmer
2 Designing Data-Intensive Applications
3 Clean Code
4 The Mythical Man-Month
5 Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
6 Working Effectively with Legacy Code
7 Software Architecture: The Hard Parts
8 Database Internals
9 Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track
10 Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
11 A Philosophy of Software Design
12 Why Programs Fail: A Guide to Systematic Debugging
13 Code Complete
14 Introduction to Algorithms
15 The C Programming Language
16 The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms
17 Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
18 Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
19 Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
20 Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
How many have you read?
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