The Software Engineer/Developer's Library

A library of books that every software engineer/developer should be aware of.

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Software Engineering Books

• For Kids
• For Beginners and Juniors
• LEVEL UP
• Software Craftmanship
• Software Architecture
• The Art of Software Testing
• Devops
• Computer Science
• Don't Miss
• Turkish Books

Programming Languages Books

• C
• Java
• Kotlin
• C#
• Go
• Python
• Swift

For Kids

Name	Author(s)
Scratch 2.0 Programming	Denis Golikov
Hello World! Third Edition: Computer Programming for Kids and Other Beginners	Warren Sande, Carter Sande
Coding For Kids For Dummies	Camille McCue
Python for Kids: A Playful Introduction To Programming	Jason R. Briggs
JavaScript for Kids: A Playful Introduction to Programming	Nick Morgan

For Beginners and Juniors

Name	Author(s)
Introduction to Algorithms	Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest ve Clifford Stein
The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally	Cory Althoff
Code Simplicity: The Fundamentals of Software	Max Kanat-Alexander
The Missing README: A Guide for the New Software Engineer	Chris Riccomini (Author), Dmitriy Ryaboy
Programming Pearls	Jon Bentley
The Art of Computer Programming Series	Donald Ervin Knut
Learn to Program	Chris Pine
Head First Learn to Code: A Learner's Guide to Coding and Computational Thinking	Eric Freeman
Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design	Brett McLaughlin, Gary Pollice, Dave West

LEVEL UP

Name	Author(s)
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftmanship	Robert Martin
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master	Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software	Charles Petzold
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software	Richard Helm, Erich Gamma Ralph Johnson, John Vlissides, Grady Booch
Head First Design Patterns: Building Extensible and Maintainable Object-Oriented Software	Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Robson
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction	Steve McConnell
Grokking Algorithms: An Illustrated Guide for Programmers and Other Curious People	Bhargava Aditya
97 Things Every Programmer Should Know	Kevlin Henney
Unit Testing Principles, Practices, and Patterns	Vladimir Khorikov

Software Craftmanship

Name	Author(s)
The Software Craftsman: Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride	Sandro Mancuso
Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems	Martin Kleppmann
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code	Martin Fowler
Clean Craftsmanship: Disciplines, Standards, and Ethics	Robert C. Martin
Clean Coder, The: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers	Robert C. Martin
Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time	Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum K. Wright
Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track	Will Larson
The Practice of Programming	Brian Kernighan, Rob Pike
Beyond Legacy Code: Nine Practices to Extend the Life (and Value) of Your Software	David Scott Bernstein
The Art of Readable Code: Simple and Practical Techniques for Writing Better Code	Dustin Boswell, Trevor Foucher
Street Coder: The rules to break and how to break them	Sedat Kapanoglu

Software Architecture

Name	Author(s)
Clean Architecture: A Craftsman's Guide to Software Structure and Design	Robert Martin
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software	Eric Evans
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture	Robert Martin
Building Event-Driven Microservices: Leveraging Organizational Data at Scale	Adam Bellemare
Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach	Mark Richards, Neal Ford
Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems	Sam Newman
Designing Distributed Systems: Patterns and Paradigms for Scalable, Reliable Services	Brendan Burns
Software Architect's Handbook	Joseph Ingeno
Microservices Patterns: With examples in Java	Chris Richardson
Building Mobile Apps at Scale: 39 Engineering Challenges	Gergely Orosz

The Art of Software Testing

Name	Author(s)
Software Testing	Ron Patton
Software Automation Testing Secrets Revealed Series	Narayanan Palani
The Self-Taught Software Tester A Step By Step Guide to Learn Software Testing Using Real-Life Project	Chhavi Raj Dosaj
Buddha in Testing: Finding Peace in Chaos	Pradeep Soundararajan
The Art of Software Testing	Glenford J. Myers and Tom Badgett
Penetration Testing – A Hands-On Introduction to Hacking	Georgia Weidman

Devops

Name	Author(s)
The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win	Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford
Kubernetes for Developers	William Denniss
Release It!: Design and Deploy Production-Ready Software	Michael T. Nygard
Scalability Rules: Principles for Scaling Web Sites	Martin L. Abbott, Michael T. Fisher
Continuous Delivery: Reliable Software Releases through Build, Test, and Deployment Automation	Jez Humble, David Farley
# Web Scalability for Startup Engineers	Artur Ejsmont

Computer Science

Name	Author(s)
Artificial Intelligence For Dummies	John Paul Mueller, Luca Massaron
Modern Operating Systems	Andrew Tanenbaum, Herbert Bos
Database Internals: A Deep Dive into How Distributed Data Systems Work	Alex Petrov
Systems Performance	Brendan Gregg
Operating System Concepts	Abraham Silberschatz, Greg Gagne, Peter B. Galvin
Database System Concepts	Abraham Silberschatz, Henry Korth, S. Sudarshan
Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces	Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau

Don't Miss

Name	Author(s)
Androids: The Team That Built the Android Operating System	Chet Haase
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams	Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister
The Psychology of Computer Programming	Gerald Weinberg
The Society of Mind	Marvin Minsky

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Programming Language Books

C

Name	Author(s)
C Programming Language	Brian Kernighan, Dennis Ritchie
C How to Program	Harey Deitel

Java

Name	Author(s)
Effective Java	Joshua Bloch
Modern Java in Action: Lambdas, streams, functional and reactive programming	Raoul-Gabriel Urma, Mario Fusco, Alan Mycroft
Introduction to Java Programming and Data Structures, Comprehensive Version	Y. Daniel Liang

Kotlin

Name	Author(s)
Kotlin Cookbook: A Problem-Focused Approach	Ken Kousen

C#

Name	Author(s)
C# 10 and .NET 6 – Modern Cross-Platform Development	Mark J. Price

Go

Name	Author(s)
Go Programming Language	Alan Donovan, Brian Kernighan
Head First Go	Jay McGavren

Python

Name	Author(s)
Python Crash Course: A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming	Eric Matthes

Swift

Name	Author(s)
Swift UI	Ray Wenderlich Tutorial Team
Swift for Good	Antoine van der Lee, Paul Hudson, John Sundell and more
Swift in Depth	Tjeerd in 't Veen

Turkish Books

Name	Author(s)
Kaliteli Yazılım Nasıl Geliştirilir?	Zeynep Nur Aktaş

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