5️⃣Readings

History

• Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution by Steven Levy

• The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder

• Revolution OS (documentary movie) (2001)

• Pratul’s software engineering favourites

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For early programmers

Get better at programming by learning how things work

How to ask good questions

Moving faster

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUv66718DII

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People, teams & projects

• Radical Candor by Kim Malone Scott

• The Mythical Man Month by Frederick Brooks

• Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams by Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister

• The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier

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Computer science & meta

• Conceptual Blockbusting by James L. Adams

• Code Complete 2 by Steve McConnell

• Programming Pearls by Jon L. Bentley

• The Practice of Programming by Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike

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Software engineering

• Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers

• Practical Object Oriented Design Patterns: in Ruby by Sandi Metz

• Test Driven Development: By Example by Kent Beck

• Get better at programming by learning how things work - https://jvns.ca/blog/learn-how-things-work/ by Julia Evans

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Agile & related processes

• User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development by Mike Cohn

• Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art by Steve McConnell

Writing system software: code comments.

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Release engineering

• The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford

• Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim

• Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation by Jez Humble, David Farley

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Android / Java / Kotlin

• Reactive Programming with RxJava by Tomasz Nurkiewicz, Ben Christensen

• Effective Java by Joshua Bloch

• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides

• Androids: The Team That Built the Android Operating System by Chet Hasse

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Web / JavaScript

• Eloquent JavaScript by Marijn Haverbeke

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Object-oriented programming

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Testing

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Front-end state management

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