reading.list

List of books I can recommend reading.

Hunt, Thomas: The Pragmatic Programmer

Get grips on developer life.

Mozilla: JavsScript reference

Your bible.

Budd: CSS Mastery: Advanced Web Standards Solutions

Get grips on CSS.

Crockford: JavaScript: The Good Parts

Understand the core of JavaScript. May require several reads.

Skiena: Algorithm Design Manual

Get grips on your algorithms and data structures.

Someone: A book on theoretical computer science

I don't have anything to recommend at the moment. But it pays to be able to understand the problem you want to solve.

Tanenbaum: Computer Networks

Your application presumably communicates with the rest of the world in some form or another. Pays to know how.

Tanenbaum: Distributed Systems: Principles and Paradigms

Since monoliths have kinda gone out of fashion.

Tanenbaum: Modern Operating Systems

If you want know what's up below and around your app.

Patterson: Computer Organization and Design: The hardware/software interface

If you want to know what's happening below the operating system. Also very helpful in understanding data structures and memory management.

Scott: Programmin Language Pragmatics

If you want to get grips on how a programming language works.

Allen: Smashing UX Design

If you have an idea and want to make it a reality.

Rowald: Designing Connected Products

If your idea talks to other things.

Rock: Your Brain at Work

If you want to become more effective.