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For anyone reading this. Learn software engineering from people that do software engineering. Just read textbooks which are written by people that actually do things

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Any recommendations? I read designing data intensive applications(DDIA) which was really good. But it is by Martin Klepmann who as I understand is an academic. Reading PEPs is also nice as it allows one to understand the motivations and "Why should I care" about feature X.

The Pragmatic Programmer https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-Maste...

Ousterhout's _A Philosophy of Software Design_ (mentioned elsethread) would be mine.

https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Architecture-Quantitative-Ap...

https://casual-effects.blogspot.com/2014/05/a-computer-scien...

https://norvig.github.io/paip-lisp/#/

Really great book even if don’t care about lisp or ai.

the python cookbook is good. and fluent python is more from principles rather than application (obvs both python specific). I also like philosophy of software design. tiny little book that uses simple example (class that makes a text editor) to talk about complexity, not actually about making a text editor at all.

fwiw, Kleppmann sold his start up to LinkedIn and worked there on Kafka before writing DDIA!

Marianne Bellotti's Kill It with Fire is a quick but good read

I also recommend avoiding anyone who rails against SOLID or OOP.

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