Vital reading material

All of these books are available in our Library.

Core

History

1. Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution -- Steven Levy

2. The Soul of a New Machine -- Tracy Kidder

3. Revolution OS (documentary movie) (2001)

People, teams & projects

1. Radical Candor -- Kim Malone Scott

2. The Mythical Man Month -- Frederick Brooks

3. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams -- Tom DeMarco, Tim Lister

4. The Manager's Path -- Camille Fournier

Computer science & meta

1. Conceptual Blockbusting -- James L. Adams

2. Code Complete 2 -- Steve McConnell

3. Programming Pearls -- Jon L. Bentley

4. The Practice of Programming -- Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike

Software engineering

1. Working Effectively with Legacy Code -- Michael Feathers

2. Practical Object Oriented Design Patterns: in Ruby -- Sandi Metz

3. Test Driven Development: By Example -- Kent Beck

Agile & related processes

1. User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development -- Mike Cohn

2. Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art -- Steve McConnell

Release engineering

1. The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win -- Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford

2. Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps -- Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim

3. Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation -- Jez Humble, David Farley

Android / Java / Kotlin specific

1. Reactive Programming with RxJava -- Tomasz Nurkiewicz, Ben Christensen

2. Effective Java -- Joshua Bloch

3. Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software -- Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides

Web / JavaScript specific

1. Eloquent JavaScript -- Marijn Haverbeke