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Books for Programmers

38 points by nickyvanurk 6y ago

nalekberov 6y ago
Let me fix the title: "Most hyped Books for Programmers"
- marnett 6y ago
  Hey, do you happen to have some lesser marketed books that you found being memorable and/or impactful for you?
  - ajfjrbfbf 6y ago
    The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
    - bear8642 6y ago
      for the Nand2Tetris course
  - eerikkivistik 6y ago
    I really enjoyed "Land of Lisp". I don't code in Lisp for work, nor do I prefer it as a language, but it has some really deep ideas that are useful regardless of what you build and what tools you use.
  - bear8642 6y ago
    Found Kernighan and Plauger's Elements of Programming Style useful - interesting to see how many of their comments on Fortran and PL/I code still remain very valid problems. Their further book Software Tools in Pascal I found inspiring (along with SICP) as they show how you can build very powerful and useful tools from small modules slotted together - SICP showed me this in the extreme with chapter 2 ending with an implementation of a full numeric tower
  - nalekberov 6y ago
    I would bet on "structure and interpretation of computer programs". You can read it online: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/book/book.html https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/... Oh and "The Art of Computer Programming" series by Donald Knuth
- rapfaria 6y ago
  Or, "Buy a fridge from my affiliate link so I can make some cash"
- bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
  Subtitle: "A list of books I definitely read."
bennysonething 6y ago
Designing data intensive applications is excellent. A rrall eye opener for me.
titanfall 6y ago
Phoenix Project on that list is a big red flag.
- rkachowski 6y ago
  whats the issue with phoenix project? i didn't like it personally but I'd be interested to know more about the general discourse
kowlo 6y ago
I can see someone proposed a title change to "Most hyped Books for Programmers" The article title is "10 Best Books for Programmers in 2020" which isn't without sensationalism, however a simple change to "My 10 Best Books for Programmers in 2020" would make a huge difference for me.
- nickyvanurk 6y ago
  I also feel that would be a better title. I've changed it :)
discreteevent 6y ago
The pragmatic programmer is a particular take based on the experience of the authors. For example I think if you asked John Carmack about pragmatic programming he probably wouldn't spend a chapter on the importance of a knowing a text editor inside out because he has always used an IDE. Or the emphasis on using a scripting language and pipes etc to automate processing of text streams. Not a lot of that going on in game programming. Also, the authors tend to pontificate a bit which is fine but not what I would have thought to be primarily "pragmatic"
PUSH_AX 6y ago
Is a low effort affiliate link list really at the top of HN right now?
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38 points by nickyvanurk 6y ago

nalekberov 6y ago

Let me fix the title: "Most hyped Books for Programmers"

marnett 6y ago
Hey, do you happen to have some lesser marketed books that you found being memorable and/or impactful for you?
- ajfjrbfbf 6y ago
  The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
  - bear8642 6y ago
    for the Nand2Tetris course
- eerikkivistik 6y ago
  I really enjoyed "Land of Lisp". I don't code in Lisp for work, nor do I prefer it as a language, but it has some really deep ideas that are useful regardless of what you build and what tools you use.
- bear8642 6y ago
  Found Kernighan and Plauger's Elements of Programming Style useful - interesting to see how many of their comments on Fortran and PL/I code still remain very valid problems. Their further book Software Tools in Pascal I found inspiring (along with SICP) as they show how you can build very powerful and useful tools from small modules slotted together - SICP showed me this in the extreme with chapter 2 ending with an implementation of a full numeric tower
- nalekberov 6y ago
  I would bet on "structure and interpretation of computer programs". You can read it online: https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/book/book.html https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/full-text/... Oh and "The Art of Computer Programming" series by Donald Knuth
rapfaria 6y ago
Or, "Buy a fridge from my affiliate link so I can make some cash"
bJGVygG7MQVF8c 6y ago
Subtitle: "A list of books I definitely read."

bennysonething 6y ago

Designing data intensive applications is excellent. A rrall eye opener for me.

titanfall 6y ago

Phoenix Project on that list is a big red flag.

rkachowski 6y ago
whats the issue with phoenix project? i didn't like it personally but I'd be interested to know more about the general discourse

kowlo 6y ago

I can see someone proposed a title change to "Most hyped Books for Programmers" The article title is "10 Best Books for Programmers in 2020" which isn't without sensationalism, however a simple change to "My 10 Best Books for Programmers in 2020" would make a huge difference for me.

nickyvanurk 6y ago
I also feel that would be a better title. I've changed it :)

discreteevent 6y ago

The pragmatic programmer is a particular take based on the experience of the authors. For example I think if you asked John Carmack about pragmatic programming he probably wouldn't spend a chapter on the importance of a knowing a text editor inside out because he has always used an IDE. Or the emphasis on using a scripting language and pipes etc to automate processing of text streams. Not a lot of that going on in game programming. Also, the authors tend to pontificate a bit which is fine but not what I would have thought to be primarily "pragmatic"

PUSH_AX 6y ago

Is a low effort affiliate link list really at the top of HN right now?

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