Books Recommended by Jeff Atwood
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Regular Expressions Cookbook
Jan Goyvaerts
Source: "I may be a card carrying member of the 'Keep It Simple Stupid' club, but I'm making a meteor sized exception for regular expressions." - Jeff Atwood
1 recommenderThe Pragmatic Programmer
From Journeyman to Master
Andrew Hunt
Source: "Instead of worrying about code, the authors boiled down all the practical approaches that they've found to work in the real world into this one book." - Jeff Atwood
2 recommendersCode Complete
A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
Steve McConnell
Source: "The very act of reading this book already sets you apart from probably ninety percent of your fellow developers. In a good way." - Jeff Atwood
1 recommenderRapid Development
Taming Wild Software Schedules
Steve McConnell
Source: "The epiphany offered in this book is that making mistakes is good– so long as they are all new, all singing, all dancing mistakes." - Jeff Atwood
1 recommenderPeopleware
Productive Projects and Teams
Tom DeMarco
Source: "If you've ever seen the performance of an all-star sports team suffer due to poor coaching, you'll appreciate this book." - Jeff Atwood
2 recommendersTop 10 Games You Can Play In Your Head, By Yourself
J. Theophrastus Bartholomew
Source: "This book is *profoundly* weird... next level galaxy brain weird. I mean that as a compliment!" - Jeff Atwood
1 recommenderThe Mythical Man-Month
Essays on Software Engineering
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Source: "Arguably the only classic book in our field. If you haven't read it, shame on you." - Jeff Atwood
5 recommendersProgramming Pearls
Jon Bentley
Source: "The collective wisdom of many journeyman coders distilled into succinct, digestible columns." - Jeff Atwood
1 recommenderAbout Face
The Essentials of Interaction Design
Alan Cooper
Source: "A fantastically useful book; I've used whole chapters as guides for projects I worked on." - Jeff Atwood
1 recommenderThe Inmates Are Running the Asylum
Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
Alan Cooper
Source: "This is the book that introduced the world to the concept of personas." - Jeff Atwood
3 recommendersThe Design of Everyday Things
Don Norman
Source: "Will give you a new appreciation of the 'devil in the details.'" - Jeff Atwood
4 recommendersDon't Make Me Think
A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
Steve Krug
Source: "The single best book on usability I've ever read." - Jeff Atwood
5 recommendersMasters of Doom
How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
David Kushner
Source: "Please read [this book]. It's such a great book." - Jeff Atwood
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59 Seconds
Change Your Life in Under a Minute
Richard Wiseman
Source: "Highly recommend." - Jeff Atwood
3 recommendersVisual Explanations
Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
Edward R. Tufte
Source: "Essential." - Jeff Atwood
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