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Book Reviews by Joel Spolsky Wednesday, March 13, 2002 “Pretty close to the perfect short list for any programmer” — Jan Derk You can learn a lot about somebody by the books they've read. And I've always thought that if you read all the same books I read, you'll come to think like me, too. So here it is -- Joel's Programmer's Bookshelf. Painless Software Management Peopleware: Productive Projects and TeamsTom Demarco and Timothy R. As summer interns at Microsoft, my friends and I used to take "field trips" to the company supply room to stock up on school supplies. The Mythical Man-MonthFrederick P. Certainly one of the classics of software project management, this book first appeared a quarter of a century ago, when Fred Brooks tried to run one of the first very large scale software engineering projects (the OS/360 operating system at IBM) and became the first person to describe how radically different software is from other types of engineering. Code Craftsmanship Philosophy of Programming Graphic Design