45 books
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as developer)
avg rating 4.33 — 24,352 ratings — published 1999
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as developer)
avg rating 4.35 — 23,645 ratings — published 2007
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series)
by (shelved 10 times as developer)
avg rating 4.24 — 8,860 ratings — published 1999
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as developer)
avg rating 4.20 — 12,002 ratings — published 1994
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as developer)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,498 ratings — published 1993
The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as developer)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,300 ratings — published 2011
Head First Design Patterns (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as developer)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,053 ratings — published 2004
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as developer)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,894 ratings — published 2002
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as developer)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,215 ratings — published 1975
Test-Driven Development: By Example (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as developer)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,415 ratings — published 2002
Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as developer)
avg rating 3.84 — 2,852 ratings — published
Introduction to Algorithms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as developer)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,365 ratings — published 1989
Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change (The XP Series)
by (shelved 5 times as developer)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,099 ratings — published 1999
JavaScript: The Good Parts (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as developer)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,671 ratings — published 2008
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as developer)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,871 ratings — published 2003
Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as developer)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,683 ratings — published 2004
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 4 times as developer)
avg rating 4.24 — 30,937 ratings — published 2000
Clean Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as developer)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,203 ratings — published 2017
You Don't Know JS: Up & Going (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as developer)
avg rating 4.35 — 2,548 ratings — published 2015
Continuous delivery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as developer)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,315 ratings — published 2010
The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development (Pragmatic Life)
by (shelved 4 times as developer)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,358 ratings — published 2009
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as developer)
avg rating 4.25 — 50,774 ratings — published 2013
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages (Pragmatic Programmers)
by (shelved 4 times as developer)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,691 ratings — published 2010
Effective Java (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as developer)
avg rating 4.51 — 8,089 ratings — published 2001
Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as developer)
avg rating 4.23 — 2,318 ratings — published 2020
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as developer)
avg rating 4.69 — 10,924 ratings — published 2015
A Philosophy of Software Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as developer)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,702 ratings — published 2018
Agile Web Development with Rails, 1st Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as developer)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,229 ratings — published 2005
Programming Elixir: Functional |> Concurrent |> Pragmatic |> Fun (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as developer)
avg rating 4.28 — 738 ratings — published 2013
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software (Pragmatic Programmers)
by (shelved 3 times as developer)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,268 ratings — published 2007
Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as developer)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,239 ratings — published 2014
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as developer)
avg rating 4.47 — 4,871 ratings — published 1984
The Design of Everyday Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as developer)
avg rating 4.15 — 48,347 ratings — published 1988
Seven Databases in Seven Weeks: A Guide to Modern Databases and the NoSQL Movement (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as developer)
avg rating 4.01 — 735 ratings — published 2012
Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as developer)
avg rating 4.23 — 376 ratings — published 2005
The Lean Startup (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as developer)
avg rating 4.11 — 369,369 ratings — published 2011
Eloquent JavaScript: A Modern Introduction to Programming (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as developer)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,243 ratings — published 2010
Pro Git (Expert's Voice in Software Development)
by (shelved 3 times as developer)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,414 ratings — published 2009
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as developer)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,406 ratings — published 1996
Grokking Algorithms An Illustrated Guide For Programmers and Other Curious People (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as developer)
avg rating 4.41 — 5,538 ratings — published 2015
Software Architecture for Developers: Volume 1 - Technical leadership and the balance with agility (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as developer)
avg rating 3.87 — 418 ratings — published 2012
Database Internals: A deep-dive into how distributed data systems work (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as developer)
avg rating 4.27 — 574 ratings — published
Modern Software Engineering: Doing What Works to Build Better Software Faster (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as developer)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,207 ratings — published
Docs for Developers: An Engineer’s Field Guide to Technical Writing (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as developer)
avg rating 3.94 — 216 ratings — published
HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as developer)
avg rating 4.30 — 4,912 ratings — published 2011
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as developer)
avg rating 4.12 — 35,613 ratings — published 2016
Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach - 4th Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as developer)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,031 ratings — published 2006
Metaprogramming Elixir (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as developer)
avg rating 4.38 — 168 ratings — published 2015
Learning Python (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as developer)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,219 ratings — published 2013
Irresistible APIs: Designing web APIs that developers will love (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as developer)
avg rating 3.17 — 75 ratings — published 2016
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