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A comment on Ask HN: How to learn best practices when you have no one to teach you?.

Re:Ask HN: How to learn best practices when you have no one ... by eskatonic on Monday March 18, 2019 @03:20PM (#19424228)
There are a lot of famous books on the subject of best practices: "Code Complete" and "Clean Code" are the first to come to mind, but I'm sure the folks here can recommend others.
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Re:Ask HN: How to learn best practices when you have no one ... by chrisgoman on Monday March 18, 2019 @03:27PM (#19424301)
These are the timeless books and should be required reading

Pragmatic Programmer: http://amzn.com/020161622X

Code Complete 2: http://amzn.com/0735619670

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Re:Ask HN: How to learn best practices when you have no one ... by rcavezza on Monday March 18, 2019 @04:12PM (#19424730)
Refactoring by Martin Fowler is a great one https://www.amazon.com/Refactoring-Improving-Existing-Addiso...

Design Patterns is also very well known https://www.amazon.com/Design-Patterns-Elements-Reusable-Obj...

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