This is a brief list of the books I have read recently or I am reading at the moment:
The Clean Code book has once again put front and center for me that writing software is a practice in which its output should be centered around:
- the reproducibility of the results
- an incremental refinement of the work based on the tests written for reproducibility
- the easiness for other people to read, understand, maintain and extend the code
I really enjoyed going through Jeff’s posts. His book although concise it is straight to the point, laying out important fundamentals in a clear way.
Listening to Brett on the @TalkPython Podcast episode #25 was pretty inspirational, starting from scratch with Python at his job at Google to leading teams and launching App Engine. I had to read his book and I am enjoying it and learning a lot.
In one of our projects at Skyscanner Hotels we make use of Kenneth Reitz’s libraries: Requests. That is how I found out about his book The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python that I made use extensively while preparing my Python Best Practices talk.
Another book which I read through for my Python Best Practices talk.
I also made use of Julien Danjou’s The hacker’s Guide to Python for preparing the Python Best Practices talk.
Again listening to episode John Sonmez on the @TalkPython Podcast episode #71 I was curious about his book. I have read most of the book so far and the take out points for me were:
- create a Blog
- give value back to the community (contribute to OS, interesting blog posts)
This is a book we gave away as a prize at the LauzHack Hackathon in Switzerland which I attended as a Skyscanner representative. I was curious about it and I am reading it now.
I enjoyed this book and wrote a brief review about it: https://esaezgil.com/reviews/grokking_algorithms/
