Jeff Atwood — Recommended Reading for Developers

Steve McConnell

“The very act of reading this book already sets you apart from probably ninety percent of your fellow developers.”

Fred Brooks

“Arguably the only classic book in our field. If you haven't read it, shame on you.”

Tom DeMarco, Timothy Lister

“If you've ever seen the performance of an all-star sports team suffer due to poor coaching, you'll appreciate this book.”

Steve Krug

“The single best book on usability I've ever read.”

Steve McConnell

“The epiphany offered in this book is that making mistakes is good -- so long as they are all new, all singing, all dancing mistakes.”

Don Norman

“This book will give you a new appreciation of the 'devil in the details.'”

Alan Cooper, Robert Reimann, David Cronin, Christopher Noessel

“It's a fantastically useful book; I've used whole chapters as guides for projects I worked on.”

Alan Cooper

“This is the book that introduced the world to the concept of personas.”

Jon Bentley

“It is the collective wisdom of many journeyman coders distilled into succinct, digestible columns.”

Andrew Hunt, David Thomas

“Instead of worrying about code, the authors boiled down all the practical approaches that they've found to work in the real world.”

Jakob Nielsen

“Designing Web Usability is of course a full-on web usability primer.”

Edward R. Tufte

“Information is beautiful. And so is a well-designed GUI.”

Edward Tufte

One of the four Edward Tufte titles on Atwood's 'Recommended Reading for Developers'; it is the second listed, and he says 'the first two are essential.'

Edward R. Tufte

One of the four Edward Tufte titles on Atwood's 'Recommended Reading for Developers'; it is listed third, after the two he calls essential.

Jan Goyvaerts, Steven Levithan

“I may be a card carrying member of the 'Keep It Simple Stupid' club, but I'm making a meteor sized exception for regular expressions.”