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If you don't see the book you're looking for listed, search the following lists for other sources of books:
 
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== God-tier books ==
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These books are essential books that people should have, or at least know about:
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compilers:_Principles,_Techniques,_and_Tools Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools] (a.k.a The Dragon Book)
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_Systems:_Design_and_Implementation 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.
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Art_of_Computer_Programming The Art of Computer Programming] by Donald Knuth (essentially the holy grail of [[Computer Science]] literature.)
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* [http://books.cat-v.org/computer-science/unix-programming-environment/ The UNIX Programming Environment]
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* [http://books.cat-v.org/computer-science/mythical-man-month/tmmm.pdf The Mythical Man Month: Essays on Software Engineering]
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* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cathedral_and_the_Bazaar The Cathedral and the Bazaar]
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* The C Programming Language, mentioned below
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* Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, listed below
  
 
== C ==
 
== C ==

Revision as of 03:04, 8 February 2014

The principal programming paradigms

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:

C

C++

C#

Forth

Haskell

Lisp

Pascal

Python