hi guys, are there any recommendations of recent b...

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[stephanmg]

hi guys, are there any recommendations of recent books software engineers should read? I’d like to boost my knowledge in my spare time.

[yogi]

I'm not sure how recent you're looking at. Any specific areas of interest?

There are certain classics like Clean coder that I usually recommend to someone who hasn't read it.

Also, Distributed Systems for fun and profit is very good.

[stephanmg]

@yogi not, it just should be in our field of software engineering respectively IT

[stephanmg]

or computational science

[yogi]

Aaah, that's nice. Best reason to read is "just because" 🙂

Above 2 resources are top notch.
I'm presently reading Remzi's book on Operating Systems (http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/)
So far so good, but can't give a full review yet.

Would love to see recommendations by others too

[stephanmg]

@yogi you want to read some quantum computing?

[yogi]

Aah, if you have recommendations - I'd love to.
But please recommend something for a noob.

My only introduction to quantum physics (not computing) so far has been through a book called "Through 2 doors at once" (again, top notch!).

[stephanmg]

oh, i will look this up

[stephanmg]

I do not know your background, but “Dancing with Qubits” by R. Suter is great, I think if you had decent high school math it will be a good book with lots of references

[stephanmg]

recently I started reading Cloud Native Patterns: Designing change-tolerant software - cannot say anything bad so far

[stephanmg]

that’s it from my side

[yogi]

Nice, added Dancing with Qubits to my ever growing list of books to read. Thanks!

[stephanmg]

🙂

[stephanmg]

enjoy

[elect]

@yogi is this what you meant? https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Robert-C-Martin/dp/0137081073

[yogi]

@elect - yup that's the one

[stephanmg]

there are other books clean code and clean architecure

[stephanmg]

think both by robert c martin

[elect]

I see the combo below

[stephanmg]

ah okay

[stephanmg]

+1 for my memory

[stephanmg]

😄

[elect]

have you read them? Do you suggest them?

[stephanmg]

I read clean code, and i am halfway through clean architecture

[stephanmg]

it is readable for sure

[elect]

how is so far?

[stephanmg]

think is fine

[stephanmg]

if you use amazon, usually you can get a free sample of the book for kindle (you do not need a kindle but can read on your smartphone or so)

[stephanmg]

like the irst ~20 pages or so