Posts tagged soft skills

In the spirit of refactoring to keep things clean, I’ve decided to move the book list from the original post to here. This should hopefully make it easier to use. Please add any new recommendations to this list.

Agile Software Development: Principles, Practices and Patterns (aka PPP)

Apprenticeship Patterns (if you’re thinking of reading Apprenticeship Patterns, Hashrocket are covering it in their Bookclub)

Clean Code

Mastering Regular Expressions

Object Thinking

Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns

Software Craftsmanship

The Art of Unix Programming

The K & R Book

The MIT SICP course (aka The Wizard Book)

The Passionate Programmer

The Pragmatic Programmer

The Refactoring book (original) (Ruby)

Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Any book by W. Richard Stevens but Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment and the Unix Network Programming Volumes in particular.

Finally, some great advice given to read through the man pages on your system. This also applies to reading the code for any application/plugin/gem etc. that you use. You can learn a lot from other people’s code/documentation.