What Is the Most Influential Programming Book? 624
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."
the Most Influential Programming Book? (Score:5, Funny)
Dianetics.
BBC Micro User Guide (Score:5, Funny)
And yet, for others of us, it was our starting book back in the 80's.
More realistically I think for my generation in the UK, this [kaserver5.org] was our starting book. But in mitigation, expecting six year olds to read Knuth might have been a bit much!
Re:K&R C (Score:3, Funny)
Oh my god, I will go and hide for the rest of the month. I blame it all on python, lack of sleep and Fukushima. I have not used C for a year or two and now this happens. Damn. I must have caught this thinking-in-python disease.