I absolutely loved the Pragmatic Programmer (the audiobook is incredibly well done), but I wouldn't consider it a "programming" book. It's a great book to outli

I absolutely loved the Pragmatic Programmer (the audiobook is incredibly well done), but I wouldn't consider it a "programming" book. It's a great book to outline what good developer culture is like, but it is (purposefully) very light on actual software development knowledge. For me, it'd probably be the K&R book. C will never die.