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Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best written programming books?

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Post by trequartista » Mon, Jun 22, 2015, 1:07 PM UTC

Some love for - The C Programming Language - Kerninghan & Ritchie -

http://www.amazon.com/The-Programming-Language-Brian-Kernigh...

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best written programming books?

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Post by more_original » Mon, Jun 22, 2015, 1:10 PM UTC

"Effective Java" by Joshua Bloch is very good.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best written programming books?

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Post by SwellJoe » Mon, Jun 22, 2015, 1:10 PM UTC

jaryd wrote: post #7

Might be an unpopular language but "Learning Perl" was pretty helpful for me when I was coming up.

Learning Perl is an excellent book. It's one of the reasons I still consider Perl a pretty good teaching and learning language, despite it's bad reputation among some programmers. All of the big O'Reilly books for Perl are truly excellent, in fact, and a big part of why O'Reilly developed such a reputation for excellence (which, I think, has faded somewhat in the past decade or so...at least for me...I don't tend to automatically choose the O'Reilly title, anymore, whereas that used to be what I always picked up first).

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best written programming books?

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Post by vollmond » Mon, Jun 22, 2015, 1:13 PM UTC

Clean Code -- Robert C. Martin

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best written programming books?

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Post by latenightcoding » Mon, Jun 22, 2015, 1:14 PM UTC

jaryd wrote: post #7

Might be an unpopular language but "Learning Perl" was pretty helpful for me when I was coming up.

Great book, my first general purpose programming language was going to be Python but the book I was reading was so poorly written that I picked up Learning Perl and have been doing Perl all my career.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best written programming books?

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Post by blackle » Mon, Jun 22, 2015, 1:16 PM UTC

Operating Systems: Design and Implementation - Andrew S. Tanenbaum

Always a good one when you want to brush up on arcane knowledge.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best written programming books?

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Post by jjmanton » Mon, Jun 22, 2015, 1:16 PM UTC

I really enjoy the Big Nerd Ranch books, although I am a bit biased because they sign my paychecks.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best written programming books?

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Post by justin66 » Mon, Jun 22, 2015, 1:17 PM UTC

Michael Kerrisk's The Linux Programming Interface is truly great.

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best written programming books?

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Post by sayems » Mon, Jun 22, 2015, 1:21 PM UTC

Thinking in Java, Java Generics and Collection, Head First Design Patterns

Re: Ask HN: What are some of the best written programming books?

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Post by kelukelugames » Mon, Jun 22, 2015, 1:22 PM UTC

jjmanton wrote: post #17

I really enjoy the Big Nerd Ranch books, although I am a bit biased because they sign my paychecks.

I love the one for iOS development. It's perfect even for people new to programming. Will you ever re-write the Andriod version to be just as beginner friendly? I would love to hand it off to my girlfriend so she can learn how to do apps. Right now it is harder to grok than the iOS one.