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Ask HN: What are your favorite programming books?

19 points by oscardelben 16y ago

I'm sure this question as already been asked, but I couldn't find it, so here I'm asking: What are your favorite programming books?

telemachos 16y ago
Higher Order Perl by Mark Jason Dominus. Now available freely online: http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/ http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/
ashconnor 16y ago
Code Complete Programming Pearls The C Programming Language Effective Java
- s1rech 16y ago
  +1 for Effective Java. It is my fav book for a particular language.
plinkplonk 16y ago
Peter Norvig's Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming. The most awesome programming book ever (imho). To quote Darius Bacon [1] "It's not just that Norvig is smart; he's specifically skilled at writing really good code, apparently because that's something he cared about and worked on. .. Norvig's book _Paradigms of AI Programming_ has 900+ pages presenting code as instructive as that Sudoku solver; I've never seen a better collection. http://norvig.com/paip.html http://norvig.com/paip.html " [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=863660 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=863660
gjm11 16y ago
I'm away from my books right now, but here are the ones that come to mind: Norvig, Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (I agree with plinkplonk and am quoted on Norvig's web site saying as much; a good book about all of {AI, Lisp, programming}). Hunt and Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmer (no big surprises but lots of little insights and very little I disagree with; nicely written). Bentley, Programming Pearls (absolutely superb for the sort of low-level algorithm-heavy stuff that, er, hardly anyone does any more). Cormen/Leiserson/Rivest/Stein, Introduction to algorithms (best single-volume algorithms text I've seen, but not for the faint-hearted; might be well supplemented with Skiena's The algorithm design manual, a very different sort of book).
s1rech 16y ago
I liked Programming Language Pragmatics, as it touches a lot of areas without going too deep in any.
mahmud 16y ago
Essentials of Programming Languages. Engineering a Compiler. Managing Gigabytes. Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment Unix Network Programming On Lisp Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation Concepts, Techniques and Models of Computer Programming Design Concepts in Programming Languages Lambda-Calculus and Combinators (the new Hindley/Seldin book, just got it 2 weeks ago) Optimizing Compilers for Modern Architectures Abstract Computing Machines: A Lambda-Calculus Perspective
thecircusb0y 16y ago
Not straight programming, more about software engineering The Mythical Man Month http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month
adbge 16y ago
Why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby Freely available: http://www.ember.co.nz/resources/whys-poignant-guide-to-ruby/ http://www.ember.co.nz/resources/whys-poignant-guide-to-ruby...

19 points by oscardelben 16y ago

I'm sure this question as already been asked, but I couldn't find it, so here I'm asking: What are your favorite programming books?

telemachos 16y ago

Higher Order Perl by Mark Jason Dominus. Now available freely online: http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/ http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/

ashconnor 16y ago

Code Complete Programming Pearls The C Programming Language Effective Java

s1rech 16y ago
+1 for Effective Java. It is my fav book for a particular language.

plinkplonk 16y ago

Peter Norvig's Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming. The most awesome programming book ever (imho). To quote Darius Bacon [1] "It's not just that Norvig is smart; he's specifically skilled at writing really good code, apparently because that's something he cared about and worked on. .. Norvig's book _Paradigms of AI Programming_ has 900+ pages presenting code as instructive as that Sudoku solver; I've never seen a better collection. http://norvig.com/paip.html http://norvig.com/paip.html " [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=863660 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=863660

gjm11 16y ago

I'm away from my books right now, but here are the ones that come to mind: Norvig, Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (I agree with plinkplonk and am quoted on Norvig's web site saying as much; a good book about all of {AI, Lisp, programming}). Hunt and Thomas, The Pragmatic Programmer (no big surprises but lots of little insights and very little I disagree with; nicely written). Bentley, Programming Pearls (absolutely superb for the sort of low-level algorithm-heavy stuff that, er, hardly anyone does any more). Cormen/Leiserson/Rivest/Stein, Introduction to algorithms (best single-volume algorithms text I've seen, but not for the faint-hearted; might be well supplemented with Skiena's The algorithm design manual, a very different sort of book).

s1rech 16y ago

I liked Programming Language Pragmatics, as it touches a lot of areas without going too deep in any.

mahmud 16y ago

Essentials of Programming Languages. Engineering a Compiler. Managing Gigabytes. Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment Unix Network Programming On Lisp Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation Concepts, Techniques and Models of Computer Programming Design Concepts in Programming Languages Lambda-Calculus and Combinators (the new Hindley/Seldin book, just got it 2 weeks ago) Optimizing Compilers for Modern Architectures Abstract Computing Machines: A Lambda-Calculus Perspective

thecircusb0y 16y ago

Not straight programming, more about software engineering The Mythical Man Month http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month

adbge 16y ago

Why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby Freely available: http://www.ember.co.nz/resources/whys-poignant-guide-to-ruby/ http://www.ember.co.nz/resources/whys-poignant-guide-to-ruby...