Your favorite books for making software

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Hello, Someone at work asked this on Slack recently, and I thought, why not ask it on the forum? What are your all-time favorite books about building software that you would recommend to community members? My list is below.

  • Eloquent Ruby
  • Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers’ Guide
  • The Pragmatic Programmer
  • Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making
  • Principles: Life and Work
  • Algorithms
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That’s a interesting question! These are the top 3 books I would recommend to anyone:

  • The Pragmatic Programmer
  • Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
  • Practical Object-Oriented Design: An Agile Primer Using Ruby