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Five memorable books about programming (2008)

31 points andsoitis 2 hours ago 10 comments

srean 1 hour ago | parent

Rarely have I felt the urge to fly out of my building and grab any random guy on the street and exclaim can you see how cool this is, can you please.

That happened to me when I read The Little Schemer.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262560993/the-little-schemer/

(The other time was when I saw a Hasui)

https://ukiyo-e.org/artist/kawase-hasui

shmoil 58 minutes ago | parent

What a weird book.

so-cal-schemer 29 minutes ago | parent

With continuation(s) in this follow up:

The Seasoned Schemer

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262561006/the-seasoned-schemer/

so-cal-schemer 39 minutes ago | parent

These are great books. I was going to suggest Zen of Assembly Language and Leo Brodie's books for this list from last month:

Show HN: The rarest tech books and docs you've probably never read(https://readrare.com/)

191 points|miletus|29 days ago|67 comments

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50024055

JKCalhoun 37 minutes ago | parent

“This is also one of the most bizarrely delayed technical book releases I can recall. The majority of the book was about detailed optimization for the 8088 and 8086…”

I’m starting work on the (tentatively titled) “The Second Book of KIM.”

jdw64 28 minutes ago | parent

Software Design for Flexibility (2021) This book left the deepest impression on me. I was fascinated by the concept of additive programming. Personally, I spent a good while thinking about and studying the idea of "evolvability." True, the overuse of flexibility can obscure control flow, and opinions on the book are divided but I learned many concepts from it. Since I often work on maintaining and modifying legacy code, this book was a great help.

so-cal-schemer 10 minutes ago | parent

My impression was the opinions on SDF aren't divided so much as most of the scant reviewers were unprepared to grok this book. As much as people like to cite SICP, "Advanced SICP" flew totally under the radar.

Flow 14 minutes ago | parent

My favorite two computer books are “Starting Forth” and “Let over Lambda”. It’s something about the language and the approach I like.

dang 9 minutes ago | parent

Related. Others?

Five Memorable Books About Programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3917165 - May 2012 (1 comment)

Five Memorable Books About Programming - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=128054 - March 2008 (14 comments)