Programming book recommendations? (programming.dev)

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A bit different from the audiobook request 2 years ago, as I'm not looking for audiobooks (so it does not have to be nice to listen to, I can see code examples) but regular books you read. Let me know which books helped you out the most, or that you just found fun to read!

EDIT: Thank you to everyone for helping me inflate my reading list! I was wondering what question I should ask to get answers including books on databases, cybersecurity, basically any topic that might fall under "computer science" and not just programming. In hindsight I maybe should have posted somewhere other than Programming and said something other than "Programming book recommendations" if I wanted that, but since I am also interested in programming and software engineering all these books will definitely be eaten soon. Thank you!

Oh, and !books@programming.dev for programming books exists but is sadly not getting much attention.

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[-] lechongous@programming.dev 8 points 3 months ago

Design patterns from 1994 and Code Complete are pretty solid

[-] notabot@lemm.ee 3 points 3 months ago

Design Patterns is good, another one is The New Turing Omnibus.

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