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What Is the Most Influential Programming Book?

Posted by samzenpus on from the best-of-class dept.

First time accepted submitter AlexDomo writes "If you could go back in time and tell yourself to read a specific book at the beginning of your career as a developer, which book would it be? Since it was first posed back in 2008, this question has now become the second most popular question of all time on StackOverflow. The top 5 results are: Code Complete (2nd Edition), The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, The C Programming Language, and Introduction to Algorithms."

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  1. Bah! Pretenders! by leftover · · Score: 5, Informative

    Everyone knows it: Knuth's "The Art of Computer Programming"

    Now get off my lawn!

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