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Recommended books for a self taught software developer
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by ju_sh
2027 days ago
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I'm a self taught developer (of 4 years) and have been working professionally as a developer (working mostly with Python and JavaScript) for the past 2 years. As an autodidact, I feel I'm lacking knowledge in many of the core principles of software engineering and computer science. I often find myself having great ideas for projects, packages and implementations but find myself running into roadblocks and frustration when trying to express them. Book recommendations appreciated! |
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And of course there is the mother of all software books SICP [1] (yes, it's free) – which is often regarded as the CS text book. It is very information-dense and touches on many parts of CS.
However, if you're struggling to build things, I doubt that books will do much good, since they usually cover theoretical aspects. For this I could only recommend lots of tinkering and practice and little half-completed projects, unfortunately.
Do you have some specific examples of projects/libraries where you got stuck? Perhaps we can get a better understanding of what it is you feel you are lacking then...
[0] https://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~pszgmh/pih.html
[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/index.html