Today, I was a given a copy of Code Complete 2nd Edition at work. I ended up talking to a coworker about must-have books for professional software developers/engineers. So my question is, what books in your collection do you consider must-haves?
I have meant to write up a list a few times in the past but never end up writing it down. Here are a few books that I have seen called must-haves:
- Code Complete
- Mythical Man-Month
- Pragmatic Programmer
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Knuth’s books
What books should I add or take away?
What programming language are you programming in? What problems are you working on solving.
I don’t feel there are any essential books, only books that will enhance your experience at solving particular problems.
Lloyd, most of my programming has been done in Java, because of work and school. And a little bash scripting from time to time.
Not sure what problems I am trying to solve. When I have a need (the backup script or the podcast downloader), I will sometimes try to write a program or script that fills that need. I suppose I haven’t any specific problems right now.