Logic for Programmers is Now Available

I am delighted to announce that my book, Logic for Programmers, is now available! You can check out the release site here or go directly to buy the ebook or print versions. If you bought any of the early access versions, you can get the 1.0 for free from leanpub.

This has been a long time in the making. Formal logic is an incredibly powerful tool to understand software. Everything from “what’s a left outer join” to “why shouldn’t Square inherit from Rect” makes more sense if you know just the basics of logic. Yet there weren’t any programmer-focused resources for actually learning those basics. You were just sort of expected to crack open a math book or pick it up through osmosis.

The osmosis route doesn’t work.

So I spent the last five years making that resource. Logic for Programmers teaches the working developer basic logic and its many applications, covering areas as diverse as property-based testing, domain modeling, and logic programming. It’s meant for people with no math background: if you know AND and/or OR, you can read this book. I researched each chapter’s topic for months, then ran the chapter by a domain expert to make sure it was accurate, then ran it by a junior programmer to make sure it was approachable.

Anyway, I am very tired and glad to be done. Thank you so much for reading, and I hope you enjoy the book.