Programming resources

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:

C

• O'Reilly - Practical C Programming
• O'Reilly - The C Programming Language

C++

• C++ for Everyone, 2nd ed.
• Accelerated C++ 2000

C#

• Apress Accelerated C# 2010

Haskell

• Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
• Real World Haskell

Lisp

• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Read it online)
• Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation (PDF download)
• Practical Common Lisp (Read it Online)
• On Lisp (PDF and Postscript download)

Pascal

• Essential Pascal
• Start Programming Using Object Pascal

Python

• Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python
  • Making Games with Python and Pygame
  • Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python
• Starting Out with Python, 2nd ed.
• Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist, Ver 2.0.12
• Learn Python The Hard Way, 3rd Edition