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014: Books: What are the best books about Software Engineering?

Oct 31, 2021

This time the title says it all: The best books about software engineers, and for software engineers, from timeless classics to books that everybody knows and nobdy reads, to books that are not about software development at all but still highly recommended for programmers.

 

The giant list of links to all the recommended software engineering books mentioned:

https://bignerdranch.com/books/ios-programming-the-big-nerd-ranch-guide-7th-edition/

https://www.newline.co/ng-book/2/

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/effective-java/9780134686097/

http://therubyway.io/

https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2

https://pragprog.com/titles/utj2/pragmatic-unit-testing-in-java-8-with-junit/

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/

https://pragprog.com/titles/pwrdata/seven-databases-in-seven-weeks-second-edition/

https://nostarch.com/howlinuxworks3

http://regex.info/book.html

https://www.algorist.com/

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/code-complete-second/0735619670/

https://pragprog.com/titles/tpp20/the-pragmatic-programmer-20th-anniversary-edition/

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3735293-clean-code

https://martinfowler.com/books/refactoring.html

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/85009.Design_Patterns

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/head-first-design/9781492077992/

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/head-first-object-oriented/0596008678/

https://www.dddcommunity.org/book/evans_2003/

https://www.infoq.com/minibooks/domain-driven-design-quickly/

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/domain-driven-design-distilled/9780134434964/

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-never-do-part-i/

https://martinfowler.com/architecture/

https://pragprog.com/titles/mnee2/release-it-second-edition/

https://dataintensive.net/

https://hpbn.co/

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/category/uibook/

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/41790.User_Interface_Design_for_Programmers

https://sensible.com/dont-make-me-think/

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/the-non-designers-design/9780133966350/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peopleware:_Productive_Projects_and_Teams

https://www.pearson.com/us/higher-education/product/Pindyck-Microeconomics-9th-Edition/9780134184241.html

https://freakonomics.com/books/

https://timharford.com/books/undercovereconomist/

https://www.kalzumeus.com/greatest-hits/

https://twitter.com/patio11

https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=patio11

https://stripe.com/en-de/guides

https://press.stripe.com/