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The principal programming paradigms

The following is a list of recommended books for learning how to program:

First, check GitHub's extensive list of free programming books: https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/free-programming-books.md

Second, a very comprehensive list: http://programming-motherfucker.com/

The gentoomen have also provided a torrent at http://books.gentoomen.org/ which has a metric fuckton of books, and if you prefer actual physical books, you can get them for really cheap from http://abebooks.com

If you don't see the book you're looking for listed, search the following lists for other sources of books:

God-tier books

These books are essential books that people should have, or at least know about:

C

C++

C#

Forth

Haskell

Lisp

Scheme

Common Lisp

Pascal

Ruby

  • The Ruby Programming Language by David Flanagan and Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Ruby In A Nutshell by Yukihiro Matsumoto
  • Programming Ruby 1.9 & 2.0 (4th edition) (a.k.a. The Pickaxe) by Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler and Andy Hunt
  • Metaprogramming Ruby by Paolo Perrotta
  • Eloquent Ruby by Russ Olsen
  • The Well-Grounded Rubyist by David A. Black

Python