Today, I saw a post from Jennifer that led to her list of favorite (and not so favorite) books. This sort of boggled my mind, since I wanted to post about two books that I have: one I just finished reading, and one I’m reading now:
Practices of an Agile Developer (Venkat Subramaniam & Andy Hunt, ISBN 097451408X):I just finished reading this; its probably the best book on agile development that I’ve ever read. The book is very practical, and not geared to a particular flavor of agile development, like the XP books are. I’d put this on my “must read” list for any developer.
Agile Principles, Patterns, and Practices in C# (Robert C. Martin & Micah Martin, ISBN 0131857258):This is an interesting book, because its a re-do of a book that “Uncle Bob” wrote a while back focused on Java. This book makes his points (all language agnostic) more accessible to C# programmers. There’s an excellent chapter on an example of agile development around scoring bowling. I saw Bob do this live, and it was remarkable.
I’m thinking of putting up a list like Jennifer’s, but at this point, that seems a daunting task: I read a lot of books!
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