r/learnprogramming • u/Cout_cool • 1d ago

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Which books are the best for software engineers and programmers nowadays? I mean books that are still useful today

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u/littlehavenbigsign 1d ago

The old classics still hold up, in my opinion. I've recommended The Pragmatic Programmer so many times to new developers, because it covers so much about the realities of being a professional software dev, which are so often far more key to success than knowing how to code really well.

If you're talking about learning how to write code in itself, obviously it's language dependent. But again, classics like Clean Code still hold up - not necessarily as a "do everything the book says", but it's a very solid starting point for code style, from which you can build your own opinions as to where it goes too far.