Re:Ask HN: Best Books to Read Develop Your Career?
by breckenedge on Saturday September 16, 2023 @09:39AM
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Honestly, PragProg gets you pretty far from a mentality perspective. Practical Object Oriented Design is a nice skills book. You might also try The Mythical Man Month.
Re:Ask HN: Best Books to Read Develop Your Career?
by surprisetalk on Saturday September 16, 2023 @05:45PM
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How to Win Friends and Influence People and The Design of Everyday Things
Code architecture and design and management are generally people problems. Sure, memory management and algorithms are important, but I’ve found that 80% of my problems have historically been caused by my poor listening skills. Learn to listen to what your customers and coworkers are really saying so that you don’t build the wrong thing to begin with.
Re:Ask HN: Best Books to Read Develop Your Career?
by Blackstrat on Saturday September 16, 2023 @06:34PM
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If you want to advance your career, learn the business first. Read books related to the business domain in which you work. That’s far more important than another book on programming. Join toastmasters and refine your public speaking. And if you don’t write well, learn. Then worry about the next technical book.
Reading that might be useful in order to narrow your search.
Code architecture and design and management are generally people problems. Sure, memory management and algorithms are important, but I’ve found that 80% of my problems have historically been caused by my poor listening skills. Learn to listen to what your customers and coworkers are really saying so that you don’t build the wrong thing to begin with.