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Best practical, hands-on programming books recommended by developers. Books to apply directly in your projects.

Books

508

Total mentions

3,459

Avg 90d mentions

1

Rankings

1
Cover of Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship

Robert C. Martin

20953 in 90d
426.9

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2
Cover of The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas

904 in 90d
210.2

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3
Cover of Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Designing Data-Intensive Applications

Martin Kleppmann

676 in 90d
144.3

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4
Cover of Clean Architecture

Clean Architecture

Robert C. Martin

584 in 90d
138.2

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5
Cover of Deep Work

Deep Work

Cal Newport

7549 in 90d
130.7

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6
Cover of Head First Design Patterns: A Brain-Friendly Guide

Head First Design Patterns: A Brain-Friendly Guide

Eric Freeman

762 in 90d
129.6

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7
Cover of Test Driven Development: By Example

Test Driven Development: By Example

Kent Beck

463 in 90d
113.4

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8
Cover of Code Complete

Code Complete

Steve McConnell

440 in 90d
100

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9
Cover of Grokking Algorithms

Grokking Algorithms

Aditya Bhargava

433 in 90d
99.9

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10
Cover of Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Working Effectively with Legacy Code

Michael Feathers

390 in 90d
91.5

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11
Cover of Atomic Habits

Atomic Habits

James Clear

390 in 90d
91.5

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12
Cover of Effective Java

Effective Java

Joshua Bloch

480 in 90d
90

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13
Cover of The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers

The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers

Robert C. Martin

391 in 90d
88.3

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14
Cover of JavaScript: The Good Parts

JavaScript: The Good Parts

Douglas Crockford

706 in 90d
87.8

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15
Cover of The DevOps Handbook

The DevOps Handbook

Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis

331 in 90d
71.3

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16
Cover of Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual

Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual

John Sonmez

300 in 90d
71

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17
Cover of The Lean Startup

The Lean Startup

Eric Ries

281 in 90d
66.8

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18
Cover of Refactoring

Refactoring

Martin Fowler

290 in 90d
64.5

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19
Cover of Don't Make Me Think

Don't Make Me Think

Steve Krug

250 in 90d
62.5

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20
Cover of Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow

Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow

Aur

3017 in 90d
60.6

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