2010 - The Year of Revival of Tech Book Reading
2010 - The Year of Revival of Tech Book Reading
As part of the get better initiative, I decided to find and spend time improving my knowledge, one book at a time. Though I would love to write a few lines about each book, for lack of time, I am just dumping the list here. But rest assured that each of them is a great book:
January:
The Art of Unit Testing by @RoyOsherove
Pragmatic Unit Testing in C# with NUnit by the Pragmatic Programmers
Test-Driven Development in Microsoft .NET by James Newkirk
February:
March:
Have a Little Faith by @MitchAlbom
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell
April:
The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell [December 2010]
The Gamechangers by @_fakeiplplayer
May:
Programming Ruby by the Pragmatic Programmers
The Ruby Way [partially read]
June: The FIFA World Cup and cheering for the awesome German team!
July:
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
The Haj by Leon Uris
September:
Agile Software Development with Scrum by Ken Schwaber
Practices of an Agile Developer by Venkat Subramaniam and Andy Hunt
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor your wetware by Andy Hunt
October:
The Grand Design by Stephen Hawking
Lean Software Development by Mary Poppendieck
November:
Implementation Patterns by @KentBeck
Implementing Lean Software Development by @mpoppendieck
The Productive Programmer by @neal4d
Leading Lean Software Development by @mpoppendieck
December:
Programming Haskell by Graham Hutton
Last, but not the least, I think it would be a travesty if I don’t mention the book that sparked a revival of sorts in me – The Passionate Programmer, by Chad Fowler, a gem of a book that I read in 2009. It helped me sharpen my focus on programming as a career and getting better.
There is no shortcut to getting better than hard work, practice and reading!