Category: Software Engineering

Rating: 7.2/10. Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction, Second Edition by Steve McConnell A fairly large book (about 850 pages) about “software construction”, essentially the process of writing code. The book is basically a long list of recommendations on how to write code that is correct and readable, kind of like a style…

Rating: 7.6/10. Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time, Curated by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, and Hyrum Wright Book about software engineering practices and processes relevant for large tech companies like Google. As an organization increases in scale (size of codebase and amount of time it needs to function), its priorities become…