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# Programming Reading List

Credits to [/u/CSMastermind](https://www.reddit.com/user/CSMastermind) for creating the list found here:

* [Part 1](https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/83xyow/must_read_books/dvmplj3/)

* [Part 2](https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/83xyow/must_read_books/dvmpmfs/)

* [Part 3](https://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/83xyow/must_read_books/dvmpn75/)



More reading list resources:

* [The Ultimate Reading List for Developers](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1jz2dyyDzgZS1zqe_vhY8SYQrhscNzpNfdAkGusWoMUU/edit#gid=0)



## 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