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Best Books For The Inquisitive Software Engineer
November 4, 2022 · 16 min · Daniel Gerlach

A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout
The Pragmatic Programmer by Dave Thomas and Andrew Hunt
Code Complete by Steve McConnell
Clean Code by Robert C. Martin
Refactoring by Martin Fowler
Test-Driven-Development by Kent Beck
Design Patterns by GoF aka Erich Gamma, John Vlissides, Ralph Johnson, Richard Helm
Extreme Programming Explained by Kent Beck
Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans
The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman
Paradigms of AI Programming (PAIP) by Peter Norvig
The Little Schemer by Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias Felleisen
Introduction to Functional Programming 1st Edition by Bird Wadler
Programming Pearls by Jon Bentley
The Algorithm Design Manual by Steven Skiena
The Art Of Computer Programming By Don Knuth
The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis Richie
Software Engineering At Google by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck and Hyrum Wright
Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
The Software Architect Elevator by Gregor Hohpe
Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim
A Mind For Numbers by Barbara Oakley
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https://gerlacdt.github.io/posts/programming-books

OverallEngineer472512 points

I’m enjoying - Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, at the moment.

Great reading list, cheers

https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/ymp2hp/best_books_for_software_engineers

>>2
Where is On Lisp?
Where is Programming in Prolog?
Where is Thinking Forth?

A Programming Language by Kenneth E. Iverson seems missing too

Some professional programmers find it difficult to accept that APL handles complicated data without loops and counts. They're unused to the APL concept of a 'workspace' in which data and code rub shoulders. They fret about 'type-safety' and the fact that APL lets you do what you want. The functions written by the user behave neither like programs nor subroutines - what are they?

If you haven't programmed before, none of these questions will bother you. You'll accept the way APL does things as natural and convenient. For this reason, APL has traditionally been used by people who are not primarily computer programmers, but who need to write quite sophisticated programs in the course of their work or research - actuaries, engineers, statisticians, biologists, financial analysts, market researchers, and so on.

>>5

APL has traditionally been used by people who are not primarily computer programmers

Thank you for this interesting information on A Programming Language (APL). I used to know a fellow Amiga-owner named Michael who had written a chapter in a book on APL. As I recall, APL used a keyboard of weird symbols. One night at an Amiga meeting I introduced the APL guy Michael Crick, whose father had won a Nobel prize, to another Amiga user, James Bardeen, whose father had won two Nobel prizes, one for inventing the transistor and one for the theory of superconductivity. Michael Crick always ridiculed and scoffed at my Mentifex AI project, especially when he saw me demonstrating MindForth on an Amiga at an exhibition of the Northwest AI Forum (NAIF). James Bardeen, though, who passed away earlier in this year of 2022 and got written up in the Wall Street Journal, was always polite to me and would give me rides home from Amiga user meetings.

>>6
How do you feel now that projects like stable diffusion have deprecated your "AI" effort?

>>7

projects like stable diffusion have deprecated your "AI" effort?

Huh? How has "stable diffusion" deprecated my [scare-quote]AI[end-scare-quote] effort? I have heard of "stable diffusion" but I don't remember what it is or was. Also, it takes a person (an agent) to "deprecate" something (like my AI project). Meanwhile, though, something much more interesting is happening. Yesterday a poast I made on Reddit at

https://old.reddit.com/r/autograph_showoff/comments/ymk4eb/rautograph_showoff_lounge/iv8t8mb

mysteriously did not not show up among the recent poasts displayed in my Reddit profile -- as if Reddit did not want Netizens to read that there are 563 exemplars of the Mentifex Autograph Postcard floating around out there. So just now I made a new poast at

https://old.reddit.com/r/TopMindsOfReddit/comments/yo9wlv/top_statisticians_struggle_to_reconcile_buying/ivdw22k

in which I said "My identical Powerball tickets both lost :-( but a signed Mentifex Autograph Postcard might bring somebody some luck because there are 563 of them floating around out there," so as to see if the same claim would get mysteriously removed from Reddit. By the way, I bought two $1.6 billion Powerball lottery tickets with the same numbers so that I could give one to a sweet maiden who accepted my Harry Potter postage stamps and might therefore accept a winning lottery ticket from me.