Ask HN: What are the best books to become a better software engineer?
I have my doubts as to:
a) Clean Code
b) The pragmatic programmer
c) Modern Software Engineering
And I just ordered a stack of XP books (Extreme Programming Explained, Installed, Examined, etc.) I can't say they were all great, but I remember thinking they weren't that bad in the 90s.
And of course Mythical Man Month and Peopleware, but that's probably more for engineering managers.
And HtDP and to a lesser degree SICP. You sort of have to read them in order to speak the same language with other devs, and if you were raised on OOP, their functional slant will exercise your brain in a good way.
And I went back and read TDD by Example. I agree with everything about it except the focus on features (which seem like a problem domain structure) instead of abstractions and design points (which seem like solution domain structures.)