r/AskProgramming · 2022

Most-mentioned books in r/AskProgramming during 2022

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/AskProgramming within the published source unit for 2022. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Tracked mentions in 2022

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The Art of Computer Programming

Donald E. Knuth

Four volumes of algorithms and combinatorics Donald Knuth started in 1962 and still hasn't finished, cited more often than it's actually read.

4 in 2022

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.

3 in 2022

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.

2 in 2022

Software Engineering at Google

Titus Winters

Google engineers document how a 25,000-person org ships software that has to last decades — the distinction between 'programmer' and 'engineer' is the whole argument.

2 in 2022