I recently read Russ Olsen's Eloquent Ruby and I loved it.
It is incredibly readable; the code and the stories mixing amazingly with real world examples and what not.
What are some of yours?
Ask HN: What are some of the best written programming books?
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Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best written programming books?
#2Check out the Stealing The Network series if you're into security -
it's a bunch of short stories about network security usually written from the POV of a hacker who's trying to gain access to a system. The stories are very tech-heavy to the point that parts of the stories are non-fiction, with huge excerpts from console sessions and the like.
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best written programming books?
#3Programming Pearls: Jon Bentley
The Pragmatic Programmer: Hunt and Thomas
The C Programming Language: Kernighan and Ritchie
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#4My favourites are more about the general craft of software development than specifics e.g.
The Pragmatic Programmer: Hunt and Thomas
The Mythical Man Month: Frederick Brooks
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#5the d programming language by andrei alexandrescu (ISBN-13: 978-0321635365)
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#6Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell By Simon Marlow
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#7Might be an unpopular language but "Learning Perl" was pretty helpful for me when I was coming up.
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#8The Little Schemer By Daniel P. Friedman and Matthias Felleisen - https://mitpress.mit.edu/index.php?q=books/little-schemer
Why's poignant guide to Ruby - http://mislav.uniqpath.com/poignant-guide/book/
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best written programming books?
#9My favourites are more about the general craft of software development than specifics e.g. The Pragmatic Programmer: Hunt and Thomas The Mythical Man Month: Frederick Brooks
You may also enjoy Glass' Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering, it's similar to Mythical Man Month (and cites it and overlaps in parts) but the focus is a bit wider, with many small essays on a particular problem in programming or management of programmers
Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best written programming books?
#10The Design Patterns book