Not on the Shelves (2024 Edition)

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It has been five years since I updated my list of unwritten books. A lot has happened since then: the COVID-19 pandemic, my mum’s death, losing my job1 and finding another, and the publication of four (soon to be five) books: Teaching Tech Together, JavaScript for Data Science, Research Software Engineering with Python, and the JavaScript and Python versions of Software Design by Example.

I mused a bit last year about what I’d like to do with the last few years of my career.2 While I have grudgingly accepted that most programmers don’t read books any more, thinking about ones I could write is a way for me to think about what I could do, and about how I’d like to see our profession change. I don’t expect to have any more impact than I’ve had in the past, but what is life without hope?

So here’s my new list; if any of them already exist, or if you’re working on one of them right now or would be interested in collaborating, please reach out.

  1. Which is an odd phrase if you think about it. It’s not like I misplaced my job down the back of the couch… ↩

  2. I turn 62 next week, at which point I will have outlived more than half of the men in my family going back to the 1840s. ↩