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A programming language is a formal constructed language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs to control the behavior of a machine or to express algorithms.

Most Read This Week Tagged "Programming"

AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
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Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World
Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
Fancy Bear Goes Phishing: The Dark History of the Information Age, in Five Extraordinary Hacks
Doom Guy: Life in First Person
The Staff Engineer's Path: A Guide for Individual Contributors Navigating Growth and Change
A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back
The Software Engineer's Guidebook: Navigating senior, tech lead, and staff engineer positions at tech companies and startups
Engineering Management for the Rest of Us
Building Evolutionary Architectures: Support Constant Change
Crafting Interpreters
The Engineering Executive's Primer: Impactful Technical Leadership
Practical UI
Designing Machine Learning Systems: An Iterative Process for Production-Ready Applications
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Programming Books

The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Head First Design Patterns
The C Programming Language
The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers
Introduction to Algorithms
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
JavaScript: The Good Parts
Working Effectively with Legacy Code
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Lists

The Well-Grounded Rubyist by David A. BlackAgile Web Development with Rails, 1st Edition by Dave ThomasEloquent Ruby by Russ OlsenDesign Patterns in Ruby by Russ OlsenThe Rails Way by Obie Fernandez
Best ruby programming books
20 books — 31 voters
HTML and CSS by Jon DuckettEloquent JavaScript by Marijn HaverbekeScratch 2.0 Programming by Denis GolikovCode by Charles PetzoldSingle Page Web Applications by Michael S. Mikowski
Learn to be a web developer
14 books — 10 voters

Clean Code by Robert C. MartinThe Phoenix Project by Gene KimThe Pragmatic Programmer by Andy HuntRefactoring by Martin FowlerThe Clean Coder by Robert C. Martin
Top 20 Agile Books for Software Developers
21 books — 6 voters
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold AbelsonCode Complete by Steve McConnellIntroduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. CormenDesign Patterns by Erich GammaHacker's Delight by Henry S. Warren Jr.
Best programming books
60 books — 39 voters


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Quotes Tagged “Programming”

Martin Fowler
“ Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand. ”
― Martin Fowler
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Robert C. Martin
“ Truth can only be found in one place: the code. ”
― Robert C. Martin, Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
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Videos Tagged “Programming”

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Groups Tagged "Programming"

Nulogy For the continuous learning culture at Nulogy
9 members, last active 9 years ago
Convious developer book club The best advice I ever received for my programming career is to devour books. This reading list …more
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Developer Interested in sharing knowledge, books about programming, architecture, IT,....
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Women in Tech Book Club An online bookclub for women and allies in tech. Follow @witbookclub This group meets in person…more
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