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@nickblll
Sep 15, 2020 • 8 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
21 Must-Read Books For Programmers

(become a Senior Developer in a year)

🧵 Thread...
1/ Personal Effectiveness

- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
- Great at Work: How Top Performers Do Less, Work Better, and Achieve More
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
2/ Writing Code

- Code Complete
- Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
- Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software
3/ Software Engineering

- Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
- Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
- Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It
4/ Unit Testing

- Starting to Unit Test: Not as Hard as You Think
- Working Effectively with Unit Tests
- Working Effectively with Legacy Code
5/ UI/UX

- Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
- Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems
6/ Project Management

- Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
- Essential Scrum: A Practical Guide to the Most Popular Agile Process
- The Lean Startup
7/ Thanks for reading

Happy coding!

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Maybe, if you don’t know how to learn

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