I'm a big fan of books like Code Complete and SICP but they are huge and take a long time to get through. What are some books small enough to finish in a weekend that you've learned a lot from?
Ask HN: What are the best programming books you could read in a weekend?
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#2How fast can you read?
- Clean Code
- Code Complete 2
- The Pragmatic Programmer
- Professional PHP
- Effective Java
- Domain Driven Design Distilled
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#3A Tour of Go [1] (If you are a novice, you really should try writing the programs yourself. You will end up finishing it in an day or two. If you just read through, it would be just a couple of hours)
The Little Schemer [2]
[1] https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1
[2] https://www.amazon.com/Little-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman/dp/0...
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#4I read Programming Elixir in a weekend(ish) including doing most of the exercises. Was quite eye-opening to the world of functional concurrency.
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#5Debugging by David J. Agans. It's about 206 pages and the information is pretty high level, but it taught me to systematically debug problems instead of blindly changing random code.
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#7Some of the Little Schemer books you could do in 2-3days
There's a new one coming out on Dependent Types https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/little-typer
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#8"Understanding Software" by Max Kanat-Alexander
Book review: https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/10/understanding-software-re...
Release announcement:https://www.codesimplicity.com/post/understanding-software/
Re: Ask HN: What are the best programming books you could read in a weekend?
#9"Understanding Software" by Max Kanat-Alexander Book review: https://www.infoq.com/news/2017/10/understanding-software-re... Release announcement: https://www.codesimplicity.com/post/understanding-software/
More on "Understanding Software" by Max Kanat-Alexander and how it helped me:
Thanks to this book, I've started re-factoring code before adding new features, our code base is getting a little better every day (more maintainable) which reversed a trend, it was getting harder to add features, now it is easier; plus when I design now, my designs are cleaner and result in maintainable code.