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:

God-tier books

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

• Compilers: Principles, Techniques and Tools (a.k.a The Dragon Book)
• Operating Systems: Design and Implementation (a.k.a the MINIX book). This is one of the books Linus Torvalds used to write the original Linux kernel.
• The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth (essentially the holy grail of Computer Science literature.)
• The UNIX Programming Environment
• The Mythical Man Month: Essays on Software Engineering
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar
• The C Programming Language, mentioned below
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, listed below

C

• The C Programming Language by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie
• O'Reilly - Practical C Programming

C++

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

C#

• Apress Accelerated C# 2010

Forth

• Thinking Forth (PDF download)

Haskell

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

Lisp

Scheme

• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Read it online)
• The Little Schemer
• The Seasoned Schemer
• The Reasoned Schemer

Common Lisp

• Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation (PDF download)
• Practical Common Lisp (Read it Online)
• On Lisp (PDF and Postscript download)
• Let Over Lambda

Pascal

• Essential Pascal
• Start Programming Using Object 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

• 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