What to Read After The Design of Design
Readers who loved The Design of Design by Frederick P. Brooks keep reaching for these 24 books. This list is built from where The Design of Design is read alongside other books across reader co-reads and book lists. The more independent sources agree on a title, the higher it ranks.
Books to read after The Design of Design
The Cathedral & the Bazaar
Working Effectively with Legacy Code
Beautiful Code
Productive Programmer
The Art of Unix Programming
Joel on Software
Coders at Work
Confessions of a Public Speaker
Elements of Programming
Being Geek
Software Systems Architecture
Extreme Programming Explained
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks
Software Testing
Systemantics
Algorithms in a Nutshell
The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
Notes on the Synthesis of Form
97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
Rapid Development
A Discipline of Programming
Dreaming in Code
Hacker's Delight
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