HACKER Q&A
📣 a_imho

Best programming books in the last couple of years?


Have a personal budget to spend mainly on programming books and was wondering what are some of the better ones recently? Question is deliberately open ended with no particular focus on specific domains, nevertheless a small summary why a given book is great value would be appreciated.

  👤 adg001 Accepted Answer ✓
We may not want to regard Knuth's latest volume, V 4B, in the The Art of Computer Programming series as a book authored only over the last couple of years, but, yeah, it has just gone into print [0]; HN reaction here [1].

[0] https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/news.html#v4b

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33082128

👤 silasb
I haven't read it yet, but I've skimmed over a couple parts, but I think System-Design Interview insiders Second Edition is a modern book around lots of concepts talked about on HN over the last 5-10 years.

Others on my list that I think are good books:

* Empowered

* Soft Skills

* Pragmatic Programmer

* Clean Architecture

* Staff Engineer by Will Larson

👤 mtmail
Related "Ask HN: What are the best tech books you read in 2021?" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29688332
👤 oweiler
Software Engineering At Google
👤 skyde
The Rust Programming Language ISBN-13: 9781718500440
👤 Psyladine
Petzold just released 2nd edition of Code, with additional work on CPU architecture.
👤 isbvhodnvemrwvn
I think the answers would be more useful if the replies said something more than just the title.
👤 ilovhn
Cracking the coding interview is really good, especially for non-seniors, you'll learn so much if you've patience (700 pages).
👤 skyde
Systems Performance: Enterprise and the Cloud 1st Edition Edition ISBN-13: 978-0133390094, ISBN-10: 9780133390094
👤 jainajayidiot
Write code for Binary Search in Python
👤 dev_0
DDIA…….