For the technical side of things, http://teachyourselfcs.com gives a nice curriculum.
Ask HN: Books you should have read when you start a career in SE / CS?
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#82Waltzing With Bears. Oh my god how I wish I had read that one book.
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#83The title makes me wonder, is it too late to read these books for me, a decade long programmer?
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#84Most books recommended here are for programming of some or administration, anyone have notable books for cyber security, pen testing, red teaming, etc?
+1, that would be awesome! :)
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#851. Mythical Man Month - obvious reasons 2. Deathmarch: The Complete Software Developer's Guide to Surviving 'Mission Impossible' Projects- also a classic. 3. Thinking fast and slow - a great introduction to biases that will affect your thinking in any project. 4. The Art of War - strategy and tactics for attacking any problem. My personal favorite translation is by Thomas Cleary.
It's next to impossible to find a soft copy of "Deathmarch", except for in Russian. I tried but I haven't found yet.
Do you mean this one? https://www.amazon.com/dp/013143635X ? Or do you mean a different book?
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#86I'm surprised to see basically only books on how to be better at making software. Nothing on negotiation or other soft skills like that. Do people generally just not value things like negotiating? Or do you just not think a book would have helped younger you?
Soft skills are irrelevant for programmers.
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#87The Phoenix project. Everyone should read, IMO. I actually started with The Goal first. Then Phoenix project and then the Google SRE book.
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#90My take on some which I think should be atleast read once: 1) The unix programming environment 2) The design of the unix operating system 3) The Pragmatic Programmer 4) Programming Pearls 5) Computer Systems: A Programmers Prespective 6) K & R C 7) The art of Unix Programming. PS: I admit my bias towards systems.
I’m halfway through the 5 and its an amazing resource.
Really phenomenal textbook. Maybe the only one I've read (almost) all of the way through.