Best books for beginning programmers
| 13th December 2009 |
Following is a list of books that I recommend any person who is beginning his career as a software developer.
1) Code Complete
This is a book every software developer or programmer must read (every year). Steve McConell explains a lot of programming truths which we often forget at work. This book can be considered as the guidelines to be followed by every software developer whenever he/she is writing code.
2) The Pragmatic Programmer
The Pragmatic Programmer contains the wisdom and experience of the authors throughout this software development careers. This books will improve your understanding of what to do and what not to do during the entire software development lifecycle. It also has several points which developers can apply to improve this understanding and productivity.
3) The Passionate Programmer
The Passionate Programmer is a book which focuses on the career of a software developer. It makes us realize that our skills are a business entity which require as much care and growth as any business endeavor. Read this book to enhance the understanding of your skill importance and improve your position in the market of software developers.
4) The Mythical Man-Month
As the name suggests, this book explains about the estimation of a software project. It is a classic book to be referred by developers who are ever going to be involved in the estimation of any project.
5) Code Reading
We are all programmers and our task is to write code. But we can only write good code, if we read good code. This book emphasizes on how to be a good code reader and improve the quality of our code by reading some of the best open source code that we can get.
This is my list of developer books that I have enjoyed reading. Some of you may be sharing some of them, others might have many more. It would be great if you could share your list with me.
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