
Jeff Atwood Recommended Books
Jeff Atwood has recommended 19 books. Browse the complete reading list with quotes and sources below.
Jeff Atwood is an American software developer, author, blogger, and entrepreneur.
(Read more on Wikipedia)19 Books Recommended
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Top 10 Games You Can Play In Your Head, By Yourself
"This book is *profoundly* weird... next level galaxy brain weird. I mean that as a compliment!" - Jeff Atwood (Source)
Programming Pearls
"The collective wisdom of many journeyman coders distilled into succinct, digestible columns." - Jeff Atwood (Source)
The Mythical Man-Month
Essays on Software Engineering
"Arguably the only classic book in our field. If you haven't read it, shame on you." - Jeff Atwood (Source)
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Peopleware
Productive Projects and Teams
"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 (Source)
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About Face
The Essentials of Interaction Design
"A fantastically useful book; I've used whole chapters as guides for projects I worked on." - Jeff Atwood (Source)
Beautiful Evidence
Jeff Atwood recommended this book on his blog. (Source)
The Inmates Are Running the Asylum
Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity
"This is the book that introduced the world to the concept of personas." - Jeff Atwood (Source)
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Envisioning Information
Jeff Atwood recommended this book on his blog. (Source)
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59 Seconds
Change Your Life in Under a Minute
"Highly recommend." - Jeff Atwood (Source)
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Code Complete
A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
"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 (Source)
Don't Make Me Think
A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
"The single best book on usability I've ever read." - Jeff Atwood (Source)
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Rapid Development
Taming Wild Software Schedules
"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 (Source)
The Design of Everyday Things
"Will give you a new appreciation of the 'devil in the details.'" - Jeff Atwood (Source)
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The Pragmatic Programmer
From Journeyman to Master
"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 (Source)
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Designing Web Usability
"A full-on web usability primer." - Jeff Atwood (Source)
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
"Essential." - Jeff Atwood (Source)
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Visual Explanations
Images and Quantities, Evidence and Narrative
"Essential." - Jeff Atwood (Source)
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Regular Expressions Cookbook
"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 (Source)
Masters of Doom
How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture
"Please read [this book]. It's such a great book." - Jeff Atwood (Source)
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Patrick Collison, Alexis Ohanian, Tobi Lütke, Austen Allred, Elon Musk, Trung Phan
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