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Ask HN: Must Read books for Software Professionals?
2 points by hhimanshu on Nov 12, 2013 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments
I am in my career where I would like to learn and architect software projects

I would also like to write better and cleaner code as I grow old

In the same spirit, this year I started with Clean Code and learnt a lot. That actually made a lot of difference in how I write code these days

Next, I picked up Refactoring(Martin Fowler) and learnt a lot again. That was so helpful that I go back in the code base of my current project and make confident and better changes.(Disclaimer: My architect for the project thinks that way)

I would now like to learn more about how to design and architect projects (doesn't matter consumer or enterprise) and would like to gather feedback from the HN community.

Please shower your blessings in form of advices

I am hearing them all

P.S. Technology/Languages are not a constraint as far as I understand



This is not so much a software book per se but Managing Humans by Michael Lopp is a great read and very worthwhile for anyone working as part of a software team regardless of whether the person is the manager or the developer.


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