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Code Complete is my favorite, hands down. The Psychology of Computer Programming was also very much worth the read.

If you are into podcasts Steve McConnell (the author) was a guest a couple of months ago on the pragmatic engineer podcast. My one take away from that podcast was just how young and new in his career he was when he wrote that book.

https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/code-complete-wit...

Yes. And if you read his other books, you'll see that he was trying to create positive change in programming over and over again, but steadily climbed what part of the organizational ladder he was trying to address.

That book, being the first, is pretty squarely aimed at shortening the journey from junior programmer to senior.

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