Recommended Reading for Developers

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Hey do you guys still recommend these books 22 years later?

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Yes, I do, otherwise I would remove them.

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The relevance of each particular book after two decades is obviously going to vary, but did you have a closer look at any of them? If not, I’d encourage you to do at least that.

Some were not new when Jeff posted the original blog entry: The Mythical Man Month was almost thirty years old by that point, and is now over fifty. Tufte’s first book, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, is not much more recent.

FWIW, a couple of the top ones on my list for newer developers are Kent Beck’s Extreme Programming Explained and Martin Fowler’s Refactoring.

Though, honestly, nothing you can read will compare to just properly learning Haskell.

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Yes, it is.

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