Top 10 programming books worth reading and applying to your day to day work

Avinash Dhumal
Dec 14, 2022
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  1. “Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software” by Charles Petzold
  2. “Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship” by Robert C. Martin
  3. “The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master” by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
  4. “Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions” by Gayle Laakmann McDowell
  5. “The Algorithm Design Manual” by Steven S. Skiena
  6. “Introduction to the Theory of Computation” by Michael Sipser
  7. “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs” by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman
  8. “Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software” by Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson, and John Vlissides
  9. “Head First Design Patterns” by Eric Freeman, Bert Bates, Kathy Sierra, and Elisabeth Robson
  10. “Programming Pearls” by Jon Bentley.

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