Comments on: Great Books for Becoming a Better Developer

By: lb_lb

lb_lb — Tue, 24 May 2011 09:11:09 +0000

I know that this is very old post, but I’ve to comment it:

For the German readers of my blog: Read the english originals. German translations of computer books are horrible on average.

Why everyware on the world, translations are made by idiots? The same situation is in Poland, thanks God for Amazon…
I’m not very fluent etc. and shouldn’t make such comments, but I can’t stand translated IT books…

By: Jens Schauder

Jens Schauder — Wed, 16 Jun 2010 03:46:01 +0000

Many people recommend Code Complete. I read it a year ago and was deeply disappointed. Found it boring to read, not much in there that helped me and lots of stuff I strongly disagree. I wouldn’t recommend that book.

Maybe I read it to late, maybe I shouldn’t have read the german version.

By: Josh

Josh — Tue, 15 Jun 2010 12:10:54 +0000

I agree with these as well. Definitely some necessary reads.

I also love Microsoft’s Code Complete
http://www.microsoft.com/learning/en/us/book.aspx?ID=6822&locale=en-us

I’ve read that a few times just because it covers a lot of very technical aspects to development that other books only touch upon.

By: Jens Schauder

Jens Schauder — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:11:52 +0000

I very much expect the Refactoring book by Fowler ot be a great book, but I haven’t read it so far. Actually I had a look in a German version, which triggered the last advice.

I don’t agree with everything Uncle Bob says and writes, But code written according to the standards of Uncle Bob will be way better then the code I have to deal with in most projects. (unfortunately that includes my own code, but it is getting better)

Jens

By: Obermaier Dominik

Obermaier Dominik — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 20:47:34 +0000

I totally agree with your recommedations. Ok, I don’t agree totally with all thoughts of Uncle Bob, but “Clean Code” is a very good book and if you are a (Java) programmer, you really have to read it. I would also recommend the book “Refactoring: Improving the Design of existing code” by Martin Fowler (http://www.amazon.de/Refactoring-Improving-Design-Existing-Technology/dp/0201485672/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books-intl-de&qid=1276548346&sr=8-2)