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r/compsci · 2022

Most-mentioned books in r/compsci during 2022

This page ranks books by exact tracked mentions in r/compsci 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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Books ranked
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Tracked mentions in 2022
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Cover of Introduction to Algorithms #1

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.

6 in 2022
Cover of Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs #2

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.

5 in 2022
Cover of The Art of Computer Programming #3

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.

5 in 2022
Cover of The C Programming Language #4

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.

4 in 2022
Cover of Modern Operating Systems #5

Modern Operating Systems

Andrew S. Tanenbaum

A 1,000-page walkthrough of how an operating system actually works, kept on the shelf for the week before a systems interview.

2 in 2022
Cover of A Philosophy of Software Design #6

A Philosophy of Software Design

John Ousterhout

A Stanford professor who invented Tcl spends two hundred pages arguing that hiding complexity behind well-designed modules beats writing more, smaller methods.

1 in 2022
Cover of Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software #7

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 2022
Cover of Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach #8

Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach

James F. Kurose

The book people cite when they're tired of the acronyms and want to know what actually happens between their laptop and a server.

1 in 2022
Cover of Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective #9

Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective

Randal E. Bryant

The machine underneath the machine: assembly, memory, and the OS layer that 'just learn C' never actually explains.

1 in 2022
Cover of How to Prove It: A Structured Approach #10

How to Prove It: A Structured Approach

Daniel J. Velleman

A logic textbook opens with truth tables and spends the rest of its pages making the reader write real mathematical proofs instead of just checking someone else's.

1 in 2022
Cover of Software Engineering at Google #11

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.

1 in 2022
Cover of The Design of Everyday Things #12

The Design of Everyday Things

Don Norman

A cognitive scientist argues that when you can't open a door or use a stove, the door and stove are broken — not you.

1 in 2022
Cover of The Linux Programming Interface #13

The Linux Programming Interface

Michael Kerrisk

A process calls fork(), a child boots into exec(), and roughly 1500 pages explain exactly what the kernel just did underneath both calls.

1 in 2022
Cover of The Mythical Man-Month #14

The Mythical Man-Month

Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

Fred Brooks managed IBM's late-1960s OS/360 project, then wrote the book explaining why adding more programmers only made it later.

1 in 2022
Cover of The Pragmatic Programmer #15

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 2022