Let's collect here programming books that are unusual in some sense, be it their approach, presentation, or simply just quality.

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Unusual Programming Books NPC 04/28/20 (Tue) 20:11:01 No.267

Let's collect here programming books that are unusual in some sense, be it their approach, presentation, or simply just quality.

The Little Schemer Cracky 04/28/20 (Tue) 20:16:58 No.268

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The Little Schemer (and its continuations) have a very nice dialogue-like structure to them, which takes a bit of practice to read effectively, but once you are used to it, is a delight to read. The examples it use are very fun, too. I was told that it is an example of "programmed instruction" but other books labelled programmed instruction are nowhere near this masterpiece.

Functional C AzureDiamond 04/28/20 (Tue) 20:29:49 No.269

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This is a textbook written for students whose introductory programming class used a functional programming language, the concrete examples are in SML. It teaches C and imperative programming through translating functional programs into efficient and idiomatic C programs. Sometimes the translations are quite formal, other times somewhat heuristic.