...Take Care of Myself

We do a challenging job that can take its toll, both physically and mentally. These books will help you improve your health; using code ny2024 will make your wallet 42% happier, too.

• The Healthy Programmer
  Joe Kutner
• The Developer's Code
  Ka Wai Cheung
• The Passionate Programmer
  Chad Fowler

...Improve My Surroundings

We tell ourselves that automating our homes makes life better for our families. But let's face it, we do it because it's cool. Maybe the 42% ny2024 discount code will smooth things over with your partner...

• Automate Your Home Using Go
  Ricardo Gerardi and Mike Riley
• Build Talking Apps for Alexa
  Craig Walls
• Portable Python Projects: Run Your Home on a Raspberry Pi
  Mike Riley

...Spread My Wings and Try New Stuff

Sure, you're a developer. But you don't have to be one exclusively. Maybe 2024 is the year you break out of the box and try something new. Let us give you a head start with 42% off these cool titles.

• Currently Away
  Bruce Tate
  How two disenchanted people traveled the great loop for nine months and returned to the start, energized and optimistic
• Forge Your Future with Open Source
  VM (Vicky) Brasseur
  A comprehensive guide to how and why to contribute to free and open source software projects.
• Technical Blogging
  Antonio Cangiano

...Learn While I Do Other Stuff

In the gym, on your commute, lying in bed... Take the plunge and learn something new in '24. Listen to the full text of books by world-class writers read and produced by professional artists. And the 42% discount when you use the discount code ny2024 sounds pretty good, too!

• Competing with Unicorns
  Jonathan Rasmusson
  Ship software faster and scale like an enterprise while working like a startup, using lessons from the world’s best tech companies.
• Designing Data Governance from the Ground Up
  Lauren Maffeo
  Put the data that runs your business to work for you. Embed data governance into your practice, and build processes to data during and after deployment. \n
• Effective Remote Work
  James Stanier
  A remote future is here. Here's how to make it your own.
• Create Your Successful Agile Project
  Johanna Rothman
• Liftoff, Second Edition
  Diana Larsen and Ainsley Nies
• Fire in the Valley
  Michael Swaine and Paul Freiberger
• The Healthy Programmer
  Joe Kutner, narrated by Don Azevedo

...Be More Effective

It's not just the code you write. It's also the environment in which you write it. If you streamline how you work, things get done faster and better, and life gets more enjoyable. The one buzzword you have to remember: ny2024 to claim your 42% discount.

• Effective Remote Work
  James Stanier
  A remote future is here. Here's how to make it your own.
• Help Your Boss Help You
  Ken Kousen
  Craft your dream role at work by guiding your manager to take your priorities into account when making decisions. \n
• Become an Effective Software Engineering Manager
  James Stanier
  The software industry needs great managers. We need you. Here's how to start. \n
• Small, Sharp Software Tools
  Brian P. Hogan
  Harness the Combinatoric Power of Command-Line Tools and Utilities
• Real-World Kanban
  Mattias Skarin
  Four case studies show how Kanban was used to significantly improve time to market and to create a shared focus across marketing, IT, and operations.
• Pomodoro Technique Illustrated
  Staffan Nöteberg
  The Easy Way to Do More in Less Time
• Program Management for Open Source Projects
  Ben Cotton
  Go beyond mere project management and improve teamwork, communication, and predictability in open source development. Make meetings and schedules work for you.
• Competing with Unicorns
  Jonathan Rasmusson
  Ship software faster and scale like an enterprise while working like a startup, using lessons from the world’s best tech companies.
• Fixing Your Scrum
  Ryan Ripley and Todd Miller
  Find and solve your Scrum pain points using practical solutions that you can implement right away to build high-performing product teams.
• Software Estimation Without Guessing
  George Dinwiddie
  A pragmatic approach to identifying the needs for software development estimation and choosing methods that can meet those needs.
• A Scrum Book
  Jeff Sutherland, James O. Coplien, and The Scrum Patterns Group
  This book is a gold mine of authoritative and practical insights into the what and why of Scrum with all you need to grow a great team and great product.
• Manage Your Project Portfolio, Second Edition
  Johanna Rothman
  Discover agile and lean ways to rank your projects so you can focus your strength where it needs to be and get the right projects finished faster.
• Creating Great Teams
  Sandy Mamoli and David Mole
  Create high-performing groups by letting people self-organize into small, cross-functional teams, using step-by-step instructions and examples.
• The Dream Team Nightmare
  Portia Tung
• Forge Your Future with Open Source
  VM (Vicky) Brasseur
  A comprehensive guide to how and why to contribute to free and open source software projects. \n
• Code with the Wisdom of the Crowd
  Mark Pearl
  Use mob programming to take collaborative programming to the next level.
• Release It! Second Edition
  Michael Nygard
  Design your application for maximum uptime, performance, and return on investment in the face of the harsh realities of the real world.
• Create Your Successful Agile Project
  Johanna Rothman
  Why and how to use the best of agile and lean project management principles to create a project environment that works for your team.

...Learn a New Programming Language

There are lots of reasons to learn a new language: you may need it for a project, you might be looking at a new job, or you just want to understand different programming paradigms. Whatever the reasons, we guarantee the outcome will include a broader and deeper understanding of development; you'll be a better programmer even if you never use your new language on the job. And at 42% off with code ny2024 you can learn a bunch.

• Programming Ruby 3.3
  Noel Rappin, with Dave Thomas
  a comprehensive reference on the language itself, with a tutorial on the most important features of Ruby—including pattern matching and Ractors—and describes the language through Ruby 3.3.
• From Ruby to Elixir
  Stephen Bussey
  Unleash the Full Potential of Functional Programming
• Effective Go Recipes
  Miki Tebeka
  Fast Solutions to Common Tasks
• Hands-on Rust
  Herbert Wolverson
  Make fun games as you learn the Rust programming language through a series of hands-on game development tutorials and real-world use of core language skills.
• Web Development with Clojure
  Dmitri Sotnikov and Scot Brown
  Build Large, Maintainable Web Applications Interactively
• Programming Flutter
  Carmine Zaccagnino
  Native, Cross-Platform Apps the Easy Way
• Programming Crystal
  Ivo Balbaert and Simon St. Laurent
  Create High-Performance, Safe, Concurrent Apps
• Programmer Passport: Prolog
  Bruce Tate
  Discover the secret Prolog developers have long known. Programs based on pure logic as the primary building block are more elegant, more powerful, and more useful than programs written with general purpose languages.

...Play

All work and no play... But why not play and learn some dev skills at the same time? Test your programming language skills with brain teasers or mess around with hardware and microcontrollers (that's real programming). You can even use software-defined radios to receive satellite imagery. The code ny2024 saves you the cost of an ESP32 or two...

• Brain Teasers: Lots to Choose From
  Short books full of little challenges that explore your knowledge and teach you fun facts.
• Mazes for Programmers
  Jamis Buck
  Explore a dozen algorithms for generating mazes randomly, each copiously illustrated and accompanied by working implementations in Ruby.
• Automate Your Home Using Go
  Ricardo Gerardi and Mike Riley
• Build Talking Apps for Alexa
  Craig Walls
• Portable Python Projects: Run Your Home on a Raspberry Pi
  Mike Riley
• Build a Weather Station with Elixir and Nerves
  Alexander Koutmos, Bruce A. Tate, Frank Hunleth
  This project based book gets you up to speed on building and deploying Elixir IoT applications using Nerves, as you develop a real-world IoT weather station.
• Build a Binary Clock with Elixir and Nerves
  Frank Hunleth and Bruce A. Tate
  Use Layering to Produce Better Embedded Systems
• Explore Software Defined Radio
  Wolfram Donat
  Use SDR to Receive Satellite Images and Space Signals

...Consolidate What I Know

We all do it: we have a problem, learn a fix, and move on. Over time these fixes coalesce and become a fundamental part of our understanding. But sometimes it's worth going back to basics; it's worth learning not just what works, but why it works. These titles help you explore the basics of how we got where we are today.

• Practical Programming, Third Edition
  Paul Gries, Jennifer Campbell, Jason Montojo
  Solve real-world problems as you learn the fundamentals of programming using Python 3.
• Effective Haskell
  Rebecca Skinner
  Build efficient applications that exploit the unique benefits of a pure functional language, learning from an engineer who uses Haskell to do practical work.
• Programming Ruby 3.3
  Noel Rappin, with Dave Thomas
  a comprehensive reference on the language itself, with a tutorial on the most important features of Ruby—including pattern matching and Ractors—and describes the language through Ruby 3.3.
• New Programmer's Survival Manual
  Josh Carter
  Navigate Your Workplace, Cube Farm, or Startup
• From Ruby to Elixir
  Stephen Bussey
  Unleash the Full Potential of Functional Programming
• Fire in the Valley
  Michael Swaine and Paul Freiberger

...Explore Ideas and Try New Approaches

There's a word that describes a stale programmer: unemployed. Let us help you look at development differently. Our beta books are up-to-the minute insights into new technologies, and many of our titles explore development in a different way. And the price of a ticket is 42% off using code ny2024.

• Explore our Beta Books
  Up-to-the-minute books still in development.
• "Seven-in-Seven" books are a fast-paced tour through seven different technologies
• Your Code as a Crime Scene
  Adam Tornhill
  Use Forensic Techniques to Arrest Defects, Bottlenecks, and Bad Design in Your Programs
• Quantum Computing
  Nihal Mehta, Ph.D.
  Program Next-Gen Computers for Hard, Real-World Applications
• From Objects to Functions
  Uberto Barbini
  Learn Functional Programming by building a complete web application that uses Kotlin, TDD with end-to-end tests, and CQRS and Event Sourcing microservices architecture.
• Creating Software with Modern Diagramming Techniques
  Ashley Peacock
  Communicate more clearly, refactor more effectively, and save time with attractive diagrams that only take minutes to make with open source, text-based tools.

...Be Inspired

Maybe the world is getting you down. Perhaps you feel you are not making enough progress. Or your company seems a bit stagnant. It may even feel like coding is just not fun anymore. These four titles could rekindle your enthusiasm.

Please note: only the first three of these are eligible for the 42% discount. Unfortunately, we don't own The Pragmatic Programmer so we can't discount it.

• Currently Away
  Bruce Tate
  How two disenchanted people traveled the great loop for nine months and returned to the start, energized and optimistic
• Fire in the Valley (audio book)
  Michael Swaine and Paul Freiberger, narrated by Don Azevedo
• Competing with Unicorns
  Jonathan Rasmusson
  Ship software faster and scale like an enterprise while working like a startup, using lessons from the world’s best tech companies.
• The Pragmatic Programmer
  Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt
  The twentieth-anniversary edition of the classic.