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What course/book positively affected your career as a developer the most?
Just like the title says 
which courses you find that have had the most impact in the span of your career as a developer?
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dimitarvp
Refactoring by Martin Fowler and Kent Beck. I’ve read the original Java version, they did a JS revision soon ago.
It did open my eyes for the fact that our work is not a playground and we should all be taking the gradual evolution of code very seriously. All of the techniques inside taught me to spot opportunities to make code more readable, more maintainable, and more extensible.
It was a priceless learning experience.
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pillaiindu
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CSS Core Concepts&CSS Page Layoutsboth by James Williamson (lynda.com) -
Rediscovering JavaScriptby Venkat Subramaniam (pragprog) -
Phoenix inside outseries by Shankar Dhanasekaran (self published, book #1Mastering Phoenixalso available free online) -
Elixir & OTPby Mike and Nicole Clark (pragmatic studio) -
Ruby on Rails 5 Essential Trainingby Kevin Skoglund (lynda.com), (I don’t call myself a Rails developer) -
Pure Reactby Dave Ceddia` (self published) - Some free PHP courses by Alex Garrett (CodeCourse) and Brad Traversy (Traversy Media) at Youtube, back in the day.
- Many more, will keep updating…
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