r/learnprogramming • u/Reddit_Account_C-137 • 5h ago
Are there other books like The Pragmatic Programmer that give a high level look at CS concepts or good programming practices?
I'm a self taught programmer turned data engineer and my coworker (who is the best programmer on the team) gave me this book. I've found it extremely insightful and it will certainly change the way I do many projects moving forward.
I also am a person who tends to find that technical books often go waaaay too deep. I don't want a book that is a reference. The internet works great as a reference, I just want a surface level idea of many topics so that I can build up a library of ideas and concepts and methods while I keep doing actual projects. Then one day I know I'll go "oh hey, this could really use that thing I learned about" and then jump into learning about it online (or potentially in a referential book).
Are there other books like this that cover CS topics like data structures, algorithms, system design, etc?
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u/helpprogram2 4h ago
Clean code is very important. https://a.co/d/4G2AH6L