Ask HN: What's a programming book that you wish you read earlier in your career?

28 pointsby toomanyrichies5 वर्ष पहले8 comments

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tomaszs5 वर्ष पहले

When I was in the middle school there was a new series of books about programming video games. There was not too much resources than to learn from about it. I was visiting the bookstore several times to read at least some pages. But since it was several books, each over 1000 pages long, i had to buy them to read in full.

I didn't find a way to earn money for these books, and eventually lacked the knowledge to pursuit the dream of making video games.

Now i am over 30 years old, and regret I didn't read these books than.

However, if it comes to my dev career, i wished I have read earlier books about these topics:

- effective communication - leadership - getting things done, the book - design - user experience - psychological books

It does not mean classical, technical and craft books are not important. I have red just a lot of these when I was young.

But these above would help me shape my career in a better way, enjoy it more and focus on the important stuff.

muzani5 वर्ष पहले

The Pragmatic Programmer. It feels like a textbook introduction to the software engineering field. Not the code part, but more the engineering parts.

brogrammer20195 वर्ष पहले

Python Notes for Professionals book would have been perfect five years ago when I started my programming career

Link: https://books.goalkicker.com/PythonBook

Simulacrum05 वर्ष पहले

As disaffected as it is, i think Neal Stepheson's "Diamond Age" has programming book "backstory" that carries weight many years later...sort of a 3rd decade insight class of wisdom...

drakenot5 वर्ष पहले

Could you elaborate on what kind of wisdom you gleaned from it?

I've read it and enjoyed it, but wondering what insights you got from it.

a3n5 वर्ष पहले

The Stevens Unix and networking books.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Richard_Stevens

terse_malvolio5 वर्ष पहले

Clean Code

rurban5 वर्ष पहले