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Ask HN: Books for soon to be Software Engineers
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#12Peopleware by Demarco and Lister is one of my all-time favorites. The Pragmatic Programmer is also great.
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#13Code Complete Being Geek
+1 for Being Geek. It's essentially a well-laid out rehash of Rands' blog posts over the years but I've found it good reading, even with the enormous amount of typos. I'm in the same situation as the OP, so the strategic career advice is much more relevant now than when I read it in the past.
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#14I am sure you'll get enough suggestions on technical books so I won't bother suggesting one. But make sure to pay extra attention to communication. A huge part in software engineering is communication.
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#15A Few Good Men from UNIVAC
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#16* The Pragmatic Programmer (Read this once every 6 months until it's obvious)
* Head first design patterns
* Agile Web Development with Rails
It's not obvious, but the rails book is a great introduction to test-driven development in general.
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#17hopefully your new company will be ok with using opensource components - so for sure read The Cathedral and the Bazaar by ESR
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#18Code craft is the book I normally recommend for people starting out. Code Complete which several other people recommend is a great book, but it's one of those books that make much more sense after you've been programming for a year or so.