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The 25 best programming books of all-time
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
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4.01 avg rating — 14,901 ratings
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The Pragmatic Programmer
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Andy Hunt (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 23,632 ratings
score: 100,
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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
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4.36 avg rating — 23,081 ratings
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The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers
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4.26 avg rating — 9,183 ratings
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Code Complete
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Steve McConnell (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 9,441 ratings
score: 97,
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
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4.24 avg rating — 8,780 ratings
score: 96,
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Working Effectively with Legacy Code
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Michael C. Feathers (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 4,649 ratings
score: 94,
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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
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4.20 avg rating — 11,851 ratings
score: 93,
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Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
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Steve Krug (Goodreads Author)
4.24 avg rating — 30,415 ratings
score: 92,
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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
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4.40 avg rating — 10,389 ratings
score: 91,
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Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
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Tom DeMarco (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 9,873 ratings
score: 90,
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Programming Pearls
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4.20 avg rating — 3,212 ratings
score: 89,
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The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4A Boxed Set
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4.74 avg rating — 235 ratings
score: 88,
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Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
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4.15 avg rating — 5,752 ratings
score: 87,
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Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
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Steve McConnell (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 1,359 ratings
score: 86,
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Continuous delivery
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Jez Humble (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 3,292 ratings
score: 85,
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Algorithms
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4.42 avg rating — 1,813 ratings
score: 84,
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The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
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Cory Althoff (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 961 ratings
score: 83,
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Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
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3.95 avg rating — 5,347 ratings
score: 82,
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
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4.47 avg rating — 4,829 ratings
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Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
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4.12 avg rating — 3,865 ratings
score: 80,
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Introduction to Algorithms
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4.35 avg rating — 9,248 ratings
score: 79,
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Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual
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3.84 avg rating — 2,837 ratings
score: 78,
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Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions
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Gayle Laakmann McDowell (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 6,887 ratings
score: 77,
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Head First Design Patterns
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4.30 avg rating — 8,951 ratings
score: 76,
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25 books ·
2 voters ·
list created March 13th, 2020
by Marcelo Ancelmo (votes) .
Tags:
programming, software-development
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