Placement Student Reading List

We’ve got a student from Leeds Metropolitan University starting with my team in the next few weeks for a placement year (internship), and he’s asked for advice on self-study before joining the team.

I’ve got this down as a list of stuff for someone who’s just starting out.  What would you recommend?

Process

• I used to recommend The Pragmatic Programmer (we have copies of this in our team library), but I’ve had a read of some excerpts in http://pragprog.com/book/jcdeg/new-programmer-s-survival-manual and it looks like sound advice from what I’ve read
• http://scrumguides.org

Unit Testing

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Behavior-driven_development
• http://www.nunit.org/index.php?p=quickStart&r=2.2.10
• http://nsubstitute.github.io/
• http://martinfowler.com/articles/is-tdd-dead/ - Lean about the ongoing debate
• http://stackoverflow.com/questions/67299/is-unit-testing-worth-the-effort

Tech

• http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp / http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp - HTML and CSS are web development basics
• http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920023951.do - C# 5 In A Nutshell (we have a copy of this)
• http://www.asp.net/mvc - Watch the free Pluralsight training
• http://learn.jquery.com/ - Another essential tool in the modern Web stack
• Do some challenges on https://www.codeeval.com/