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Programming Reading List

Credits to /u/CSMastermind for creating the list found here:

More reading list resources:

Job Interview Prep

  • Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions
  • Programming Interviews Exposed: Coding Your Way Through the Interview
  • Introduction to Algorithms
  • The Algorithm Design Manual
  • Effective Java
  • Concurrent Programming in Java: Design Principles and Pattern
  • Modern Operating Systems
  • Programming Pearls
  • Discrete Mathematics for Computer Scientists

Junior Software Engineer Reading List

Read This First

  • Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware

Fundamentals

  • Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
  • Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art
  • Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach
  • Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
  • Coder to Developer: Tools and Strategies for Delivering Your Software
  • Perfect Software: And Other Illusions about Testing
  • Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application

Understanding Professional Software Environments

  • Agile Software Development: The Cooperative Game
  • Software Project Survival Guide
  • The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky
  • Debugging the Development Process: Practical Strategies for Staying Focused, Hitting Ship Dates, and Building Solid Teams
  • Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
  • Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

Mentality

  • Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
  • Against Method
  • The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development

History

  • The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
  • Computing Calamities: Lessons Learned from Products, Projects, and Companies That Failed
  • The Deadline: A Novel About Project Management

Mid Level Software Engineer Reading List

Read This First

  • Personal Development for Smart People: The Conscious Pursuit of Personal Growth

Fundamentals

  • The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers
  • Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
  • Solid Code
  • Code Craft: The Practice of Writing Excellent Code
  • Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative
  • Writing Solid Code

Software Design

  • Head First Design Patterns: A Brain-Friendly Guide
  • Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
  • Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software
  • Domain-Driven Design Distilled
  • Design Patterns Explained: A New Perspective on Object-Oriented Design
  • Design Patterns in C# - Even though this is specific to C# the pattern can be used in any OO language.
  • Refactoring to Patterns

Software Engineering Skill Sets

  • Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems
  • Software Factories: Assembling Applications with Patterns, Models, Frameworks, and Tools
  • NoEstimates: How To Measure Project Progress Without Estimating
  • Object-Oriented Software Construction
  • The Art of Software Testing
  • Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software
  • Working Effectively with Legacy Code
  • Test Driven Development: By Example

Databases

  • Database System Concepts
  • Database Management Systems
  • Foundation for Object / Relational Databases: The Third Manifesto
  • Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design
  • Data Access Patterns: Database Interactions in Object-Oriented Applications

User Experience

  • Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability
  • The Design of Everyday Things
  • Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications
  • User Interface Design for Programmers
  • GUI Bloopers 2.0: Common User Interface Design Don'ts and Dos

Mentality

  • The Productive Programmer
  • Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
  • Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
  • Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering

History

  • Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
  • New Turning Omnibus: 66 Excursions in Computer Science
  • Hacker's Delight
  • The Alchemist
  • Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages
  • The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood

Specialist Skills

In spite of the fact that many of these won't apply to your specific job I still recommend reading them for the insight, they'll give you into programming language and technology design.

  • Peter Norton's Assembly Language Book for the IBM PC
  • Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets
  • Enough Rope to Shoot Yourself in the Foot: Rules for C and C++ Programming
  • The C++ Programming Language
  • Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs
  • More Effective C++: 35 New Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs
  • More Effective C#: 50 Specific Ways to Improve Your C#
  • CLR via C#
  • Mr. Bunny's Big Cup o' Java
  • Thinking in Java
  • JUnit in Action
  • Functional Programming in Scala
  • The Art of Prolog: Advanced Programming Techniques
  • The Craft of Prolog
  • Programming Perl: Unmatched Power for Text Processing and Scripting
  • Dive into Python 3
  • why's (poignant) guide to Ruby

Senior Level Software Engineer Reading List

Read This First

  • Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment

Fundamentals

  • Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
  • Enterprise Integration Patterns: Designing, Building, and Deploying Messaging Solutions
  • Enterprise Patterns and MDA: Building Better Software with Archetype Patterns and UML
  • Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail
  • Rework
  • Writing Secure Code
  • Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries

Development Theory

  • Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests
  • Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications
  • Introduction to Functional Programming
  • Design Concepts in Programming Languages
  • Code Reading: The Open Source Perspective
  • Modern Operating Systems
  • Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change
  • The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
  • Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

Philosophy of Programming

  • Making Software: What Really Works, and Why We Believe It
  • Beautiful Code: Leading Programmers Explain How They Think
  • The Elements of Programming Style
  • A Discipline of Programming
  • The Practice of Programming
  • Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective
  • Object Thinking
  • How to Solve It by Computer
  • 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know: Collective Wisdom from the Experts

Mentality

  • Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
  • The Intentional Stance
  • Things That Make Us Smart: Defending Human Attributes In The Age Of The Machine
  • The Back of the Napkin: Solving Problems and Selling Ideas with Pictures
  • The Timeless Way of Building
  • The Soul Of A New Machine
  • WIZARDRY COMPILED
  • YOUTH
  • Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art

Software Engineering Skill Sets

  • Software Tools
  • UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language
  • Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development
  • Practical Parallel Programming
  • Past, Present, Parallel: A Survey of Available Parallel Computer Systems
  • Mastering Regular Expressions
  • Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
  • Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice in C
  • Michael Abrash's Graphics Programming Black Book
  • The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
  • SOA in Practice: The Art of Distributed System Design
  • Data Mining: Practical Machine Learning Tools and Techniques
  • Data Crunching: Solve Everyday Problems Using Java, Python, and more.

Design

  • The Psychology Of Everyday Things
  • About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design
  • Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty
  • The Non-Designer's Design Book

History

  • Micro-ISV: From Vision to Reality
  • Death March
  • Showstopper! the Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft
  • The PayPal Wars: Battles with eBay, the Media, the Mafia, and the Rest of Planet Earth The Business of Software: What Every Manager, Programmer, and Entrepreneur Must Know to Thrive and Survive in Good Times * and Bad
  • In the Beginning...was the Command Line

Specialist Skills

  • The Art of UNIX Programming
  • Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
  • Programming Windows
  • Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X
  • Starting Forth: An Introduction to the Forth Language and Operating System for Beginners and Professionals
  • lex & yacc
  • The TCP/IP Guide: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Internet Protocols Reference
  • C Programming Language
  • No Bugs!: Delivering Error Free Code in C and C++
  • Modern C++ Design: Generic Programming and Design Patterns Applied
  • Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C#
  • Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit

DevOps Reading List

  • Time Management for System Administrators: Stop Working Late and Start Working Smart
  • The Practice of Cloud System Administration: DevOps and SRE Practices for Web Services
  • The Practice of System and Network Administration: DevOps and other Best Practices for Enterprise IT
  • Effective DevOps: Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale
  • DevOps: A Software Architect's Perspective
  • The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
  • Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems
  • Cloud Native Java: Designing Resilient Systems with Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Cloud Foundry
  • Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation
  • Migrating Large-Scale Services to the Cloud

Entrepreneur Reading List

  • Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
  • The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win
  • The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
  • The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
  • The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win
  • Permission Marketing: Turning Strangers into Friends and Friends into Customers
  • Ikigai
  • Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition
  • Bootstrap: Lessons Learned Building a Successful Company from Scratch
  • The Marketing Gurus: Lessons from the Best Marketing Books of All Time
  • Content Rich: Writing Your Way to Wealth on the Web
  • The Web Startup Success Guide
  • The Best of Guerrilla Marketing: Guerrilla Marketing Remix
  • From Program to Product: Turning Your Code into a Saleable Product This Little Program Went to Market: Create, Deploy, Distribute, Market, and Sell Software and More on the Internet at * Little or No Cost to You
  • The Secrets of Consulting: A Guide to Giving and Getting Advice Successfully
  • The Innovator's Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth
  • Startups Open Sourced: Stories to Inspire and Educate
  • In Search of Stupidity: Over Twenty Years of High Tech Marketing Disasters
  • Do More Faster: TechStars Lessons to Accelerate Your Startup Content Rules: How to Create Killer Blogs, Podcasts, Videos, Ebooks, Webinars (and More) That Engage Customers and Ignite * Your Business
  • Maximum Achievement: Strategies and Skills That Will Unlock Your Hidden Powers to Succeed
  • Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
  • Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make Competition Irrelevant
  • Eric Sink on the Business of Software
  • Words that Sell: More than 6000 Entries to Help You Promote Your Products, Services, and Ideas
  • Anything You Want
  • Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
  • The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
  • Tao Te Ching
  • Philip & Alex's Guide to Web Publishing
  • The Tao of Programming
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values
  • The Inmates Are Running the Asylum: Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy and How to Restore the Sanity

Computer Science Grad School Reading List

  • All the Mathematics You Missed: But Need to Know for Graduate School
  • Introductory Linear Algebra: An Applied First Course
  • Introduction to Probability
  • The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
  • Science in Action: How to Follow Scientists and Engineers Through Society
  • Proofs and Refutations: The Logic of Mathematical Discovery
  • What Is This Thing Called Science?
  • The Art of Computer Programming
  • The Little Schemer
  • The Seasoned Schemer
  • Data Structures Using C and C++
  • Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs
  • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
  • Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
  • How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Programming and Computing
  • A Science of Operations: Machines, Logic and the Invention of Programming
  • Algorithms on Strings, Trees, and Sequences: Computer Science and Computational Biology
  • The Computational Beauty of Nature: Computer Explorations of Fractals, Chaos, Complex Systems, and Adaptation
  • The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
  • Computability: An Introduction to Recursive Function Theory
  • How To Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
  • Types and Programming Languages
  • Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation: Elementary Algorithms
  • Computer Algebra and Symbolic Computation: Mathematical Methods
  • Commonsense Reasoning
  • Using Language
  • Computer Vision
  • Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid

Video Game Development Reading List

  • Game Programming Gems - 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
  • AI Game Programming Wisdom - 1 2 3 4
  • Making Games with Python and Pygame
  • Invent Your Own Computer Games With Python
  • Bit by Bit