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r/AskProgramming · 2019

Most-mentioned books in r/AskProgramming during 2019

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/AskProgramming within the published source unit for 2019. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Tracked mentions in 2019
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Cover of Clean Code #1

Clean Code

Robert C. Martin

Robert Martin's case that unreadable functions are a discipline failure, not an inevitability, argued one renamed variable and one extracted method at a time.

5 in 2019
Cover of Design Patterns #2

Design Patterns

Erich Gamma

Four authors catalog twenty-three recurring object-oriented problems in 1994 and hand every future code review the same argument to have.

2 in 2019
Cover of C++ Primer #3

C++ Primer

Stanley B. Lippman

The reference you keep open next to the keyboard once C++ stops handing you training wheels.

1 in 2019
Cover of Clean Architecture #4

Clean Architecture

Robert C. Martin

Robert Martin's rule: business logic sits at the center of the system, frameworks and databases plug in at the edges, never the other way around.

1 in 2019
Cover of Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software #5

Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

Charles Petzold

Charles Petzold builds a working computer from a doorbell, a flashlight, and a length of wire, then keeps going until it's running software.

1 in 2019
Cover of Domain-Driven Design #6

Domain-Driven Design

Eric Evans

An interviewer asks if you've read Domain-Driven Design, then pivots to recursive Fibonacci when the answer gets complicated.

1 in 2019
Cover of Head First Design Patterns #7

Head First Design Patterns

Eric Freeman

A junior dev dreads every requirement change until a book full of cartoon ducks and strategy patterns rewires how they see the problem.

1 in 2019
Cover of Introduction to Algorithms #8

Introduction to Algorithms

Thomas H. Cormen

A course syllabus gets posted, and a Redditor recognizes it as nothing but this book's chapter headings in disguise.

1 in 2019
Cover of Refactoring #9

Refactoring

Martin Fowler

Martin Fowler's method for restructuring code's internals without anyone outside noticing that anything changed at all.

1 in 2019
Cover of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs #10

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

Harold Abelson

Six chapters into Scheme, you're writing an interpreter for a language you invented an hour ago.

1 in 2019
Cover of The Pragmatic Programmer #11

The Pragmatic Programmer

Andy Hunt

Two working programmers write down the shop habits senior engineers use so junior ones stop reinventing them badly.

1 in 2019