Are you wasting your time learning ‘to code’ on your phone! Give it up already! Tutorials? Yuck! Have some self respect. These 3 or 4 books – (in conjunction with the MDN docs) – are our suggestions – for people who want to learn to be great developers – in a fraction of the time.

Seriously. Stop fighting logic.

1. The Elements of User Experience: http://www.jjg.net/elements/
2. Don’t Make Me Think: https://www.sensible.com
3. Exercises for Programmers (+ use the MDN docs) https://pragprog.com/titles/bhwb/

Spend $100 and save 10k of wasted time and frustration

0:00 Intro
1:07 HTML and CSS books thought process
12:29 JavaScript books thought process
15:37 Thinking about “the good parts” and staying on the happy path

21:36 The actual books we think you should use…
31:43 Final notes about big picture / responsibility
32:59 Some online resources (not books)
+ Derek talks about learning from Chris Coyier’s Lynda.com course.

CSS Discord invite: https://discord.gg/pFc6XmH

## Here are more key books that can help orient you as more of a ‘Guardian of the Galaxy’ than just a ‘coder.’
(in suggested order)

1. The Elements of User Experience: http://www.jjg.net/elements/
2. Don’t Make Me Think: https://www.sensible.com
3. Exercises for Programmers (+ use the MDN docs) https://pragprog.com/titles/bhwb/
(start learning to program ^ – and keep reading as you go!)
4. Just Enough Research: https://abookapart.com/products/just-enough-research
5. Everyday Information Architecture: https://abookapart.com/products/everyday-information-architecture
6. Ruined By Design: https://www.ruinedby.design/
7. Design for the Real World: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victor_Papanek (this is probably the most* important book – but it’s also the most dense… so – now’s the time)
8. Rocket Surgery Make Easy: https://www.sensible.com

If you read all of those… then – let us know – and I’ll give you the next list 😉

## You are responsible for what you put into the world.
Please be a hero.

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