Denis' Micro Blog

Hey hey,

hope you're doing well. ❤️

For today, I thought I wanted to do something different. Since I've been building a habit of reading (mostly informative) books for... ehrm... I think over a year for every day, let's give some recommendations with some personal comments on each of those. So, there are five books, mostly with an informative programming focus I read some day ago and thought were interesting.

• The Pragmatic Programmer by David Thomas and Andrew Hunt → A guide on how to become a better programmer, focusing on the "surface" level with general tips and tricks, and the utilization of "outside" tools to improve your programming. By incorporating those ideas, you can enhance the flexibility and adaptability of your code, making it easier to reuse in various areas.
• Clean Code by Robert C. Martin → Talks about the practices of writing clean code, examples of actually improving bad code, and different heuristics of "bad code" as a knowledge base. In short. A guide to writing cleaner, better code.
• Head First Design Patterns by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson, Bert Bates and Kathy Sierra → List of different "blueprints" of often used structural patterns in projects and incorporating them, presented in a tongue-in-cheek manner...
• Refactoring UI by Adam Wathan and Steve Schoger→ My personal UI bible with lots of practical examples of real-world applications on how you can design beautiful UI from a perspective that a developer can actually understand.
• Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon → Guide to presenting and promoting your work with different practical baselines on how to do that. Really helpful for programmers plugging their creative stuff and themselves.

So yeah... Nothing more to be added at this point. I just need a transition between that list and an ending.

Hope you found that list at least somewhat interesting.

See ya.