So, how many pages do you have to peruse to get "lean"?
Books every developer should read
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#22Here is my list : http://www.zenmodeler.com/design-matters/books-recommandatio...
It's the books that struck me the most, I do not pretend it to be exhaustive.
I also strongly agree with @shock3naw: do a lot, read a little in between
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#23These are a bit specific. I feel as though they might, in fact, have been the last 4 books the author has happened to read. Anyhow, I expect we'll get the usual round up here. Code Complete , of course; plus a smattering of rebels who think it was boring or irrelevant. The Pragmatic Programmer will receive universal praise, especially from those who didn't take the time to read Code Complete from cover to cover. Some…
You saved me a comment, none of the books in OP are really 'must read' and most of them are about project management methodology, not programming. I was going to add to what you said with a link to a specific former thread I remember that was good, and it caused me to stumble onto a new feature in Google that I haven't seen before and which is most excellent. If you google for: site:news.ycombinator.com programming b…
It looks like those aren't limited to what hacker news users have mentioned but the web in general.
If you just do a normal search for programming books the same exact list in the same order appears.
Still a cool feature if you want the most mentioned books on the web for a given subject.
Re: Books every developer should read
#24That's according to you. So the title is misleading. None of these books are any good. I've been in software development for over 20 years and I would recommend a completely different list of books, that are not as trendy as yours, but probably more important.
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Re: Books every developer should read
#25These are a bit specific. I feel as though they might, in fact, have been the last 4 books the author has happened to read. Anyhow, I expect we'll get the usual round up here. Code Complete , of course; plus a smattering of rebels who think it was boring or irrelevant. The Pragmatic Programmer will receive universal praise, especially from those who didn't take the time to read Code Complete from cover to cover. Some…
Hi Jacques,
Thank you for your comment, I thoroughly enjoyed it. Thank you also for summarizing the many forseeable possible discussions upfront so that we could have avoided them here.
The books were chosen by a group of five, half of us with 10-15 years of experience, so no, they aren't the latest books the author by a chance happend to read.
I admit that, as others have complained, the title might be percieved as misleading. The reason is that these are books that our company recommends to its developers and we want the developers to be something more than coders (= what most people understand under 'developer'). Though it's important to write great code, it's even more important, IMHO, that it is the right code that gets written, i.e. that the resources available are used to produce the maximal business value possible (and we believe that this cannot be planned but must be discovered based on feedback from reality - that's why lean/agile). Going quickly (great coding skills) in the wrong direction isn't progress.
Some of us have read Code Complete or The Pragmatic Programmer but it hasn't made it into the list. More of us will read it now and we will reevaluate the list afterwards. I hope it's good with you :-)