Best Books for Software Engineers

Gyanendra Kumar Knojiya
4 min readDec 30, 2021

List of books that provide a roadmap for software engineers.

I’d want to share some links as well as a brief synopsis of each book on the roadmap. This should make it simple to locate a replacement or simply skip.

1. Building a Career in Software by Daniel Heller:

There is a problem with software engineering education: colleges and boot camps train aspiring engineers to write code, but then leave grads to learn the many supporting tools necessary to survive in actual software organizations. Building a Career in Software is the answer, a comprehensive guide to the essential skills that instructors don’t need and professionals never think to teach: landing jobs, selecting teams and projects, asking good questions, running meetings, going on-call, debugging production problems, technical writing, making the most of a mentor, and much more.

What You Will Discover:

  • Learn about every major non-technical aspect of professional programming, as well as numerous critical technical practices required…

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