Yes. scarface74 is trying to tell you that the parent post is wrong. For the record, I'm on scarface74's side of this one. Those books are not soft skills. They're about the difference between being able to code up an algorithm and actual software engineering.

We've got too many people employed as software engineers when all they know is computer science. They cause a lot of problems without even knowing it. When others complain, they respond that their algorithms are perfect - as if that were where the problem was.