I will start, for me its nr.2 and The Pragmatic Programmer, really like this one 🚀 Cheers!

Non-Designer's Design Book

By the way, nice topic!

So this one is really different (not about development, but it's a good choice)

Well, I'm in camp #4... at least when it comes to programming books. 😅

That said, I wanna give a shout out to @integerman who I know recently published a book in the past year for all those C# devs out there.

Refactoring with C#

Also, I'm a Community Manager at DEV and seeing your post reminds me that I should advocate for us to add polling abilities. We've discussed it previously but haven't yet been able to move on that functionality. I'll remind the team!

Number two, but then I am a technical reviewer for O'Reilly so not really fair :)

Recommendations:

• The JavaScript Definitive Guide
• The CSS Definitive Guide
• Engineering management for the rest of us

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My favourite book on technology is The Art of Game Design - it makes you look at everything differently in my experience, not only games but interfaces too.

The Art of Thinking Clearly

I've just finished the following one which was an excellent one :

I have a copy of "Database Design for Mere Mortals", by Michael J. Hernandez - I am using for reference.

Then, I also have a copy of "The Goodbye Cat", by Hiro Arikawa. This might not be a bad choice for reading while travelling by train.

I am also referring "Understanding Exposure", by Bryan Peterson. This book is about photography and its basic concepts - mostly for learning.

4 Learn Python the Hard Way by Zed A. Shaw, Greg Newman

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I read many books to learn new things or improve my skills. It ranges from data and programming to game development. I like having the physical thing, but I also get a lot of ebooks from amazon and humble bundles.

Right now, I'm enjoying Grokking algorithms, Low Poly with Blender, and a couple of GCP Data Engineering books.

Effortless by Greg McKeown isn't a software book, but it's helped me a lot in the way that I think about software and writing clean code.

When it comes to books that are strictly in the realm of coding, The Pragmatic Programmer is the one I wish I had at the beginning of my career. I know this one tends to make everyone's list, but there's a good reason for that 😄

Some of the best books that I would personally recommend are:
1-> Deep work (teaches you about how to work at an elite level and doing work hard to replicate )

2-> atomic habits(everyone should read this once in their life, teaches you how to build good habits and how to break bad habits by scientifically proven methods)

3-> zero to one (Book by a member of PayPal mafia i.e Peter Theil in which he teaches you about how to build profitable , scalable and sustainable startups)

Hope you find this useful, Happy reading

1. I've read 5 or more books in the last year.

The only book I aggressively recommend is The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy.

I like to think that I am a pretty good reader but don't read many software dev books!

This year I read a few that are related to general career stuff + one HTML book for a course I was in!

1. HTML & CSS design and build websites by Jon Duckett
2. Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman (Loved this book. Of course. Read it. Yes.)
3. Orbiting the Giant Hairball by Gordan MacKenzie (More of just a general career-related book about an illustrator who works at Hallmark— this was so fun and great to read. )
4. Keep Going: 10 Ways to Stay Creative in Good Times and Bad by Austin Kleon (Honestly, I have books I would recommend over this one but I do think it was a nice quick read!)
5. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy by Jenny Odell (If you get one thing out of this message please read this book. I love this book. It was incredible. Highly suggested read that summarizes the perils of the anthropocene, reconnecting with nature, and crafting balance in your life..... among so many other things.)

Okay I take it back I think this is a pretty impressive list.

Nice topic, BTW!

In the last year, I read 12 books (it was my year challenge). In case, some good books related to programming that I REALLY recommend to anyone are:

• Designing Data Intensive Applications
• High Performance Browser Networking
• Database Internals

If you are into golang, I think this is a must go: manning.com/books/100-go-mistakes-...

1) here. But this year I decided to change my approach from reading just for the sake of reading and keeping a list of read books (just in case learning) to reading for the sake of answering questions or facing a challenge (just in time learning)

Here's my to-read list from last year:
The Programmer's Brain
Your Code as a Crime Scene (that title man!)
Designing Data Intensive Applications
Working Effectively with Legacy Code

SQL Performance Tuning, by Peter Gulutzan & Trudy Pelzer

These guys know everything I learned the hard way during my 20+ years of optimizing SQL - and gave me a lot more! This book finally tells you why your queries are slow and how you can make it easier for the server to find out & return what you ask for. Just put it on the shelf! You'll find yourself reaching for it every now and then, and it's gonna save you days of headache.

Eu li recentemente Hit Refresh do Satya Nadella, mostra como foi reformular a microsoft, não e focado em desenvolvimento mas fala muito do open-source que a microsoft adotou.

Weapons of math destruction