> It's not that these books are bad, or out of date. It's more that they exposed some new ideas at the time that, to the books credit, have been picked up and made mainstream or basic/required knowledge for the working programmer

What books do you recommend though to get novice (or not so novice) programmers up to speed? IMO there is a lack of modern literature and general introductory material to the kind of wisdom you otherwise only get after decade(s) of software development (if at all, for quite a number of people).

A recent one I liked is “A Philosophy of Software Design”, but it only covers so much ground, and some of its advice requires further qualification.