14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers – New Book
A book about the software development career. Independent of any particular programming language, framework, or methodology.
14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers – New Book launched on July 14, 2020 with 154 votes, #199 of 4,305 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 6 years on.
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14 Habits of Highly Productive Developers" is a book offering practical strategies for software developers looking to improve their work efficiency. The book outlines fourteen specific habits aimed at helping developers accomplish more and work more effectively. It targets professional and aspiring programmers seeking concrete, actionable approaches to boosting productivity in their daily development work.
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You can learn the most popular frameworks, use the best programming languages, and work at the biggest tech companies, but if you cultivate bad habits, it will be hard for you to become a top developer. This book doesn't offer a straight path or pre-defined formula of success. This book is a result of a quest. A quest to uncover what habits can be cultivated to become a better software engineer. More than ten years ago, I started my career as a software engineer. I worked in small companies. I worked in big companies. I traveled the world, spoke in more than 110 conferences, and met thousands of developers. I never wanted to write a book, but I realized that being a developer is more than…from 14habits.com
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