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Learning is an amazing thing. You can keep learning your entire life and still
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be amazed about how much you don't know or understand. For me, learning is mostly
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opening a terminal and getting my hands dirty. But to get a deeper understanding
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of a technology, there's nothing that beats a well written book.
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This page lists my favourite software engineering books that I think you should
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read if you're interested in the topic.
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_In the spirit of full disclosure, these are affiliate links, which means that I may
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get a commission if you decide to purchase anything. I only recommend books that I
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have read and love myself, so you're in good hands._
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## Ruby
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* [Programming Ruby](http://amzn.to/2bA0ta5) <span class="recommended">tip</span>
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* [The Well Grounded Rubyist](http://amzn.to/2bpIv9U)
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* [Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby](http://amzn.to/2bbDSBp) <span class="recommended">tip</span>
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## Ruby on Rails
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* [Agile Web Development with Rails 4](http://amzn.to/2bbsdRd)
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* [Agile Web Development with Rails 5](http://amzn.to/2bGFHCH) <span class="recommended">tip</span>
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* [Rails 4 Test Prescriptions](http://amzn.to/2bA0lYc)
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* [Metaprogramming Ruby 2](http://amzn.to/2buepiu)
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* [The Cucumber Book: Behaviour-Driven Development for Testers and Developers](http://amzn.to/2bbspzW)
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* [The RSpec Book: Behaviour-Driven Development with RSpec, Cucumber, and Friends](http://amzn.to/2bA1FtW)
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## GPG - The GNU Privacy Guard
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* [PGP & GPG: Email for the Practical Paranoid](http://amzn.to/2kJ4zxM) <span class="recommended">tip</span>
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## Golang
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* [Programming in Go](http://amzn.to/2bbsHqI)
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## macOS / Cocoa / Swift / Objective-C
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* [Cocoa Programming for OS X: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (5th edition)](http://amzn.to/2bpRLL0) <span class="recommended">tip</span>
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## Vim and Tmux
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* [Practical Vim](http://amzn.to/2bbsDqS)
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* [Vi iMproved](http://amzn.to/2bbsoMr) <span class="recommended">tip</span>
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* [tmux 2: Productive Mouse-Free Development](http://amzn.to/2n8I3Ax) <span class="recommended">tip</span>
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## Software Engineering
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* [The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master](http://amzn.to/2bbKD1C)
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* [The Passionate Programmer: Creating a Remarkable Career in Software Development](http://amzn.to/2bA1bE1)
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* [Clean Code: A Handbook for Agile Software Craftsmanship](http://amzn.to/2bA18Ix) <span class="recommended">tip</span>
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* [Understanding the Four Rules of Simple Design](https://leanpub.com/4rulesofsimpledesign)
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* [The Mytical Man-Month](http://amzn.to/2bwMPTK)
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## Agile / Scrum
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* [Scrum and XP from the Trenches](http://amzn.to/2bbtkjU)
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* [Agile Coaching](http://amzn.to/2bwM3Gt)
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## Git
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* [Pragmatic Version Control Using Git](http://amzn.to/2bcbNd9)
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* [Version Control with Git](http://amzn.to/2bAHyfn)
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## Electronics
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* [The Art of Electronics - 3rd Edition](http://amzn.to/2bbtTKy) <span class="recommended">tip</span>
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## MOS 6502 Microprocessor
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* [6502 Applications Book](http://amzn.to/2bc0m3y)
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* [Programming the 6502](http://amzn.to/2bqvXPl)
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## Going paperless?
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<a href="http://amzn.to/2bfTHqN"><img class="img-right" src="/img/kindle_paperwhite.jpg" /></a>
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I _love_ my Kindle. It's light-weight, has a battery that lasts about 4 weeks (I read about 1 hour a day), and it features a quality e-ink screen. The 3G option is fantastic, as you can leave your Kindle always connected and use services like [Readability](https://www.readability.com/) to send web pages neatly formatted to your Kindle for later reading.
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Almost all of the books listed above are available for Kindle as well. So if you're not already paperless, why not start now?
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* [Amazon Kindle Paperwhite](http://amzn.to/2bfTHqN)
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* [Aamzon Kindle Voyage](http://amzn.to/2bDXAF1)
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* [Kindle Unlimited 30-Day Free Trial](https://www.amazon.com/gp/kindle/ku/sign-up?ie=UTF8&*Version*=1&*entries*=0&ref_=assoc_tag_ph_1454291293420&_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=9325&linkCode=pf4&tag=ariejannet02-20&linkId=27a2fcdbdce4d545fd1dd60031c45474)
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