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Programming resources
The following is a list of recommended books for learning how to program:
First, check GitHub's extensive list of free programming books: https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/free-programming-books.md
Second, a very comprehensive list: http://programming-motherfucker.com/
The gentoomen have also provided a torrent at http://books.gentoomen.org/ which has a metric fuckton of books, and if you prefer actual physical books, you can get them for really cheap from http://abebooks.com
If you don't see the book you're looking for listed, search the following lists for other sources of books:
God-tier books
These books are essential books that people should have, or at least know about:
- Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools (a.k.a The Dragon Book)
- Operating Systems: Design and Implementation (a.k.a the MINIX book). This is one of the books Linus Torvalds used to write the original Linux kernel.
- The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth (essentially the holy grail of Computer Science literature.)
- The UNIX Programming Environment
- The Mythical Man Month: Essays on Software Engineering
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar
- The C Programming Language, mentioned below
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, listed below
C
C++
C#
Forth
- Thinking Forth (PDF download)
Haskell
Lisp
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Read it online)
- Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation (PDF download)
- Practical Common Lisp (Read it Online)
- On Lisp (PDF and Postscript download)
