Should I read books as a software developer ?

Reading list for developers

Should I read books as a software developer ?

This is the question I hear a lot. My strong opinion is that this should be a must. Even though developer can learn a lot from different kind of tutorials or examples, nothing can replace a good book. You can read about different hot tools/frameworks, but they could easily disappear in a year or so. A book, and especially a good one, will give you good overview in a certain field, and guide you in authors angle from start to end of a subject. This will help you develop strongly as a software engineer. If book include examples, as it is very often, then you have it all in one place.

I tend to read about 20-30 books per year (when possible), and here I talk only about tech books. In the one of the following posts I will talk more about some best practices how to read a book.

Here I will wrote some of the great books from different areas, which every developer should read.

Fundaments

Professional development

Cloud

Architecture

Agile

Alghoritms

Programming languages

OOA/D

Testing

Machine learning

Databases

Other

If you know any other book not in this list, and want to contribute, do not hesitate to contact me.

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Dr Milan Milanović
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