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A core list of books on design and development for folks who build web technology.
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The STREAM TONE: The Future of Personal Computing?
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101 Things I Learned in Architecture School
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On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction
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Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web
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Art Direction for the Web
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Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
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Steve McConnell (Goodreads Author)
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Teach Yourself Web Publishing With Html in a Week
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Web Typography: A handbook for designing beautiful and effective responsive typography
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
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Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day
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Don't Make Me Think!: a Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
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Steve Krug (Goodreads Author)
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The Elements of Programming Style
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How to Architect
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Joel on Software
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Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
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The New Hacker's Dictionary
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The PC is Not a Typewriter
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The Elements of Java Style
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The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
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Lean Software Development: An Agile Toolkit
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The Martian Principles for Successful Enterprise Systems: 20 Lessons Learned from NASA?s Mars Exploration Rover Mission
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
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Andy Hunt (Goodreads Author)
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Digital Mosaics: The Aesthetics of Cyberspace
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Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
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Defensive Design for the Web: How to Improve Error Messages, Help, Forms, and Other Crisis Points
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Popular Lies About Graphic Design
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The Non-Designer's Design Book: Design and Typographic Principles for the Visual Novice
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The Elements of Style
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