I'm the co-author of Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the aspiring software craftsman About the book Buy it from Amazon UK Buy it from Amazon US isbn.nu O'Reilly catalogue page Dave Hoover, my co-author The Twitter account for the book: http://twitter.com/apprntcshpptrns The Facebook Fan Page for the book: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Apprenticeship-Patterns/156158987529

News about the book October 2009: Dave tells the story of the book December 2008: Dave and I get interviewed by Pat Eyler

Recommendations

Occasionally people ask me to recommend programming books. I usually end up giving them whatever subset of the following list I can remember at the time.

The following list contains books or websites which I think everyone really ought to read and which I have already read.
Craft and learning The Craftsman by Richard Sennett Better by Atul Gawande Jonathan Livingston Seagull by Richard Bach The art of learning by Josh Waitzkin Mastery by George Leonard Web Javascript: The good parts by Douglas Crockford Object orientation Understanding object-oriented programming with java by Timothy A. Budd Object Oriented Design Heuristics by Arthur J. Riel Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests by Steve Freeman and Nat Pryce General The psychology of computer programming by Gerald M Weinberg The mythical man month by Fred Brooks The pragmatic programmer by Andrew Hunt & David Thomas Code complete by Steve McConnell Facts and fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert L. Glass Waltzing with bears by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister The logic of failure by Dietrich Dorner