A list of the books I want to, and have, read around programming.

Reading

The Mythical Man-Month

• very interesting at the start, but beginning to fall off a bit after 20%. More related to the organisation of software teams than it is related to coding directly, thinking of trying something else.

To Read

• The Pragmatic Programmer
• Coders at Work
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code, 2nd Edition
• Growing Object Oriented Software Guided By Tests

Backlog

Roughly ranked list of books I’d like to read.

• Code Complete: a Practical Handbook of Software Construction, 2nd Edition
• Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (quite java-specific, but still interesting)
• Head First Design Patterns: A Brain-Friendly Guide (seems to cover some fairly advanced topics)
• Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
• Working Effectively With Legacy Code (not relevant to me until I’m looking to work on an existing codebase)
• The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (sounds somewhat dubious, also relates to developing software in teams/an organisation - perhaps read the parts of it relevant to me now and skip the org-related sections?)

Resources:

https://thesmartcoder.dev/10-must-read-books-for-software-engineers/ https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/top-10-books-that-every-programmer-must-read-once/