r/AskProgramming · 2024

Most-mentioned books in r/AskProgramming during 2024

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/AskProgramming within the published source unit for 2024. Counts come from the reconciled subreddit-by-month matrix; a source unit may be a bounded sample.

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Tracked mentions in 2024

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The C Programming Language

Brian W. Kernighan

Two authors write the book that becomes 'K&R,' and forty years later Reddit still uses it as shorthand for programmers who had to know everything themselves.

2 in 2024

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.

1 in 2024

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.

1 in 2024

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 2024

The C++ Programming Language

Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup writes the reference manual for the language he invented, and on Reddit it mostly survives as one joke about languages nobody complains about.

1 in 2024