10 best programming books?

Question

This question is laregely opinion based, but thats what i'm looking for... whats your top 10 programming books?

Answer 1

I believe that once you learn to program, you can take the concepts and learn another language much easier. I started learning Basic and its many flavors then moved to C. So the first book would be the one that taught me Basic:

Color Computer Programming Guide

Next would be the book that taught me C. I tried a few books but this one I really enjoyed and felt was really useful:

Programming in C

Next would be the Charles Petzold book on programming in the Windows environment:

Programming Windows 3.1 (that's where I started :) )

Next is more of a theory book from Microsoft:

Writing Solid Code

After that I used my base knowledge to expand into other languages:

Programming Perl

As a Unix admin I also needed the base scripting languages:

sed & awk
Learning the Korn Shell

Finally some dabbling in other activities and new operating systems:

Learning PHP 5
Learning PHP and MySQL
Learning the Bash Shell

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Well, it all depends on what type of programming you're looking at. I am a coldfusion developer so the best books i've seen for that is ColdfusionMX Bible (http://www.amazon.com/ColdFusion-Bible-Adam-Phillip-Churvis/dp/0764546228)

If its JavaScript then it's JavaScript Bible (http://www.amazon.com/JavaScript-Bible-Danny-Goodman/dp/0764531883)

If it's SQL Server then it's (you guessed it) SQL Server 2005 Bible - (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0764542567/isnotnull-20)

Answer 3

Here, collections of great programming books:
http://www.freeprogrammingbook.com