As requested: This is volume one of my programming book recommendations: Dead Tree Edition: The 10 books (or book categories) that have been the most valuable to me over the last 35 years:
00:00 Intro
00:43 Channel Intro
00:53 Book Relocation and proof(?) I'm not an AI...
02:34 The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and Bob Thomas
03:40 The Mythical Man-Month by Fred Brooks
04:20 Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael Feathers
04:42 SQL for Smarties by Joe Celko
05:39 Get a book on Assembler for your processor of choice
06:44 Get a textbook on Algorithms you can look stuff up in
07:46 Transaction Processing by Jim Gray and Andreas Reuter
09:05 TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 1 by W Richard Stevens
10:35 Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment by W Richard Stevens
11:56 Firewalls and Internet Security by Cheswick and Bellovin
13:39 Find the new technology (LLMs?) for your time that Firewalls were for me, and learn it.
14:49 The theme: Learn the underlying tech your code lives on, not just the surface level
16:52 Sign off
Books (in no particular order - mostly):
https://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Programmer-journey-mastery-Anniversary/dp/0135957052
https://www.amazon.com/Mythical-Man-Month-Software-Engineering-Anniversary/dp/0201835959
https://www.amazon.com/Working-Effectively-Legacy-Michael-Feathers/dp/0131177052
https://www.amazon.com/Joe-Celkos-SQL-Smarties-Programming/dp/0128007613
https://www.amazon.com/x64-Assembly-Language-Step-Step/dp/1394155247
https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Algorithms-fourth-Thomas-Cormen/dp/026204630X
https://www.amazon.com/Transaction-Processing-Concepts-Techniques-Management/dp/1558601902
https://www.amazon.com/TCP-Illustrated-Vol-Addison-Wesley-Professional/dp/0201633469
https://www.amazon.com/Advanced-Programming-UNIX-Environment-3rd/dp/0321637739
https://www.amazon.com/Firewalls-Internet-Security-Repelling-Hacker/dp/020163466X