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What course/book positively affected your career as a developer the most?

chasekaylee

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What course/book positively affected your career as a developer the most?

Just like the title says :smiley: which courses you find that have had the most impact in the span of your career as a developer?

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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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dasdom

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Author of Build Location-Based Projects for iOS

The Pragmatic Programmer by @Andy and David Thomas.

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pillaiindu

pillaiindu

  1. CSS Core Concepts & CSS Page Layouts both by James Williamson (lynda.com)
  2. Rediscovering JavaScript by Venkat Subramaniam (pragprog)
  3. Phoenix inside out series by Shankar Dhanasekaran (self published, book #1 Mastering Phoenix also available free online)
  4. Elixir & OTP by Mike and Nicole Clark (pragmatic studio)
  5. Ruby on Rails 5 Essential Training by Kevin Skoglund (lynda.com), (I don’t call myself a Rails developer)
  6. Pure React by Dave Ceddia` (self published)
  7. Some free PHP courses by Alex Garrett (CodeCourse) and Brad Traversy (Traversy Media) at Youtube, back in the day.
  8. Many more, will keep updating…
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