 | The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt
Buy new: £15.91 / Used from: £12.88 Excellent insights into a great developers mentality
|
 | Design patterns : elements of reusable object-oriented software by Erich Gamma
Buy new: £25.16 / Used from: £18.00 Seminal book on Design Patterns. An absolute must for any developers library. Slightly dry in its delivery and examples in C or Smalltalk
|
 | Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Object Technology Series) by Martin Fowler
Buy new: £22.76 / Used from: £12.00 Another 'must' for the bookshelf
|
 | Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change by Kent Beck
Buy new: £13.49 / Used from: £4.55 The book that started it all (Agile). In its second ed. much is rewritten to the readers benifit.
|
 | Test Driven Development (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series) by Kent Beck
Buy new: £11.49 / Used from: £10.92 TDD by example, excellent introduction to TDD
|
 | Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series) by Martin Fowler
Buy new: £21.49 / Used from: £19.00 More specific usage of Patterns, examples in .Net and Java
|
 | UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series) by Martin Fowler
Buy new: £15.67 / Used from: £12.50 Good introduction & reference to UML
|
 | User Stories Applied: For Agile Software Development (Addison Wesley Signature Series) by Mike Cohn
Buy new: £14.46 / Used from: £33.52 Practical guide to requiements gathering with an Agile/XP flavour
|
Listmania!
