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Essential Programming Books
This will be a list of books deemed fundamental to the art of programming and will include books for various languages.
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Essential Programming Books
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Software Craftsmanship
See also:
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Essential Books of Computer Science
Most popular Computer Science Books on Goodreads
Software Craftsmanship
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Apprenticeship Patterns: Guidance for the Aspiring Software Craftsman
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Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual
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Practical SQL: A Beginner's Guide to Storytelling with Data
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The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-4A Boxed Set
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PROLOG: Programming for Artificial Intelligence
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The Art of Readable Code: Simple and Practical Techniques for Writing Better Code
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Effective Modern C++: 42 Specific Ways to Improve Your Use of C++11 and C++14
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Bridging the Communication Gap: Specification by Example and Agile Acceptance Testing
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Gojko Adzic (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 257 ratings
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Fearless Change: Patterns for Introducing New Ideas
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Scrum and XP from the Trenches
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Henrik Kniberg (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 1,827 ratings
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Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great
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The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
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Guy Kawasaki (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 29,178 ratings
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Genetic Programming II: Automatic Discovery of Reusable Programs
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Software Craftsmanship: The New Imperative
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Reviewing Java
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Software Craftsman, The: Professionalism, Pragmatism, Pride (Robert C. Martin Series)
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4.30 avg rating — 959 ratings
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Threaded Interpretive Languages: Their Design and Implementation
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Responsive Web Design Overview For Beginners
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Brett Romero (Goodreads Author)
3.33 avg rating — 9 ratings
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JavaScript Objects Functions and Arrays Explained
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4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings
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Build Your First Website: A Crash Course in HTML and CSS
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Joey Kirk (-Author)
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Learning To Program
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4.08 avg rating — 48 ratings
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Numerical Recipes: The Art of Scientific Computing
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Python Programming Books Set: Python Programming For Beginners & Complete Guide For Python Programming
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Build Web Applications with Java: Learn every aspect to build web applications from scratch
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Mirza Yousuf Ahmed Baig (Goodreads Author)
4.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Object-Oriented Design Heuristics
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Building RESTful Web services with Go: Learn how to build powerful RESTful APIs with Golang that scale gracefully
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Naren Yellavula (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Программирование: теоремы и задачи
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Programming Pearls
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Create an Uber Clone in 7 Days
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Shai Almog (Goodreads Author)
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ZX Spectrum Games Code Club: Twenty fun games to code and learn
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Gary Plowman (Goodreads Author)
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Machine Learning (McGraw-Hill International Editions Computer Science Series)
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Pro Git
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OOP Concepts Booster : Take Your Coding Skills to the Next Level
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UNIX System V Network Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
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Learn Linux Quickly: A Friendly Guide to Easily Master the World's Most Powerful Operating System.
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HTML and CSS QuickStart Guide: The Simplified Beginners Guide to Developing a Strong Coding Foundation, Building Responsive Websites, and Mastering ...
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BASIC Fun: Computer Games, Puzzles, and Problems Children Can Write
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Python Programming For Beginners: Quick And Easy Guide For Python Programmers
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A Tour of C++ (C++ In Depth SERIES)
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Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules
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Steve McConnell (Goodreads Author)
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The Connection Machine (Mit Press Series in Artificial Intelligence)
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Pro TypeScript: Application-Scale JavaScript Development
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Steve Fenton (Goodreads Author)
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Real-World Machine Learning
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Basic Beginnings (An Avon/Camelot Book)
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Windows 11: 2021 Complete New OS User Guide. 33 Best Tips and Tricks to Master your PC
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Allan Farington (Goodreads Author)
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Beginners Guide On PHP Programming: Quick And Easy Guide To Learn PHP With My-SQL
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A Discipline for Software Engineering
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Functional Programming Application and Implementation
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Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming
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Basic Fun With Adventure Games
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C++ Concurrency in Action: Practical Multithreading
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Framework Design Guidelines: Conventions, Idioms, and Patterns for Reusable .NET Libraries
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Learn Java the Easy Way: A Hands-On Introduction to Programming
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A Smarter Way to Learn JavaScript: The new approach that uses technology to cut your effort in half
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Basic Fun With Graphics: The IBM-PC Way (An Avon/Camelot Book)
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Smalltalk with Style
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A Little Java, A Few Patterns
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The Science of Programming (Monographs in Computer Science)
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Python Crash Course: A Hands-On, Project-Based Introduction to Programming
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Understanding Compression: Data Compression for Modern Developers
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Basic Fun With Graphics: The Apple Computer Way (An Avon/Camelot Book)
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The programming language landscape (The SRA computer science series)
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Specifying Systems: The TLA+ Language and Tools for Hardware and Software Engineers
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A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms: Level Up Your Core Programming Skills
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BASIC Fun With Graphics: The Atari Computer Way
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C++ Coding Standards: 101 Rules, Guidelines, and Best Practices
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Java Coding Problems: Improve your Java Programming skills by solving real-world coding challenges
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Commodore 64 in Wonderland
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lex & yacc
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Fundamentals of Database Systems
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Introduction to Functional Programming (Prentice-Hall Series in Engineering of the Physical Sciences)
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The Elements of Programming Style
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40 Algorithms Every Programmer Should Know: Hone your problem-solving skills by learning different algorithms and their implementation in Python
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Algorithms for Dummies
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Confident Ruby
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Programming: A Personal Computer
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The Self-Taught Programmer: The Definitive Guide to Programming Professionally
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CSS: The Missing Manual
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Programming PHP
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How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning With Python
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21st Century C: C Tips from the New School
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Head First C: A Brain-Friendly Guide
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Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. Cormen seems to be listed twice.
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