List of computer books

Last updated October 05, 2025

List of computer-related books which have articles on Wikipedia for themselves or their writers.

Programming

Ada

John Barnes – Programming in Ada 2012
AdaCore – SPARK 2014 Reference Manual^[1]

C

Andrew Koenig – C Traps and Pitfalls
Brian W. Kernighan – The C Programming Language
Guy L. Steele Jr. – C: A Reference Manual
Herbert Schildt – C, The Complete Reference
Peter van der Linden – Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets

C++

Andrei Alexandrescu – Modern C++ Design
Bjarne Stroustrup – The C++ Programming Language , A Tour of C++, The Annotated C++ Reference Manual
Herb Sutter – Exceptional C++, More Exceptional C++, Exceptional C++ Style, C++ Coding Standards
Scott Meyers – Effective C++, More Effective C++, Effective Modern C++
Stanley B. Lippman – Inside the C++ Object Model, C++ Gems: Programming Pearls from The C++ Report

C#

Andrew Troelsen – Pro C# 10 with .NET 6: Foundational Principles and Practices in Programming
Bill Wagner – Effective C#
Jeff Prosise – Programming Microsoft .NET
Herbert Schildt – C#: A Beginner's Guide and C# 4.0: The Complete Reference

Fortran

Daniel D. McCracken – A Guide to Fortran Programming
Elliot Koffman – Problem Solving and Program Design in Fortran
Jeanne Clare Adams – Fortran 90 Handbook and Programmer's Guide to Fortran 90
William H. Press – Numerical Recipes

Go

Brian W. Kernighan – The Go Programming Language

Java

Bruce Eckel – Thinking in Java
James Gosling – The Java Programming Language
Joshua Bloch – Effective Java
Kathy Sierra – Head First Java
Herbert Schildt – Java: The Complete Reference, Java: A Beginner's Guide, Java 2 Programmer's Reference

JavaScript

Douglas Crockford – JavaScript: The Good Parts and How JavaScript Works
John Resig – Pro JavaScript Techniques and Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja
Jeremy Keith – DOM Scripting
Danny Goodman – JavaScript Bible
John Smiley – Learn to Program with JavaScript
Laura Lemay – Laura Lemay's Web Workshop: JavaScript

Lisp

Guy L. Steele Jr. – Common Lisp the Language
Patrick Henry Winston – Lisp (book)
Paul Graham – On Lisp and ANSI Common Lisp
Peter Norvig – Paradigms of AI Programming
Peter Seibel – Practical Common Lisp
Richard P. Gabriel – Performance and Evaluation of Lisp Systems
Sonya Keene – Object-Oriented Programming in Common Lisp

Perl

brian d foy – Mastering Perl
chromatic – Perl Best Practices, Perl Hacks, Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook
Damian Conway – Object Oriented Perl
GNU Savannah – Perl Design Patterns Book
Jon Bentley – Programming Pearls
Joseph N. Hall – Effective Perl Programming
Larry Wall – Programming Perl
Mark Jason Dominus – Higher-Order Perl
Randal L. Schwartz – Intermediate Perl and Learning Perl
Sriram Srinivasan – Advanced Perl Programming
Tom Christiansen – Perl Cookbook and Programming Perl 2nd and 3rd editions

PHP

Rasmus Lerdorf – Programming PHP
Zak Greant – PHP Functions Essential Reference
David Mercer – Beginning PHP5

Python

Alex Martelli — Python in a Nutshell and Python Cookbook
Mark Pilgrim – Dive into Python
Naomi Ceder — The Quick Python Book
Wes McKinney — Python for Data Analysis
Zed Shaw – Learn Python the Hard Way

R

David G. Robinson — Text Mining with R
Hadley Wickham – Advanced R
Roger Bivand – Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R
Yihui Xie – Dynamic Documents with R and knitr
Dirk Eddelbuettel – Seamless R and C++ Integration with Rcpp
John Fox – Using the R Commander: A Point-and-Click Interface for R
John Chambers – Software for data analysis programming with R

Ruby

Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas – Programming Ruby
Chris Pine – Learn to Program
Sandi Metz — Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby
Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas, DHH – Agile Web Development with Rails
why the lucky stiff – why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby
Yukihiro Matsumoto — Ruby, Ruby in a Nutshell, and The Ruby Programming Language
Zed Shaw — Learn Ruby the Hard Way

SQL

C. J. Date – An Introduction to Database Systems
Hugh Darwen – Databases, Types and The Relational Model: the Third Manifesto
Ben Forta – SQL in 10 Minutes, Sams Teach Yourself
Joe Celko – Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties

Swift

Apple – The Swift Programming Language^[2]

Visual Basic

John Smiley – Learn to Program with Visual Basic 6
Michael Halvorson – Microsoft Visual Basic 4 Step by Step
Dan Rahmel – Visual Basic .NET Reference Book
Clayton Walnum – The Complete Idiot's Guide to Visual Basic 6
Mitchell Waite – Visual Basic How To

Algorithms

Donald Knuth – The Art of Computer Programming
Ellis Horowitz – Fundamentals of Computer Algorithms
Henry S. Warren, Jr. – Hacker's Delight
Niklaus Wirth – Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs and Systematic Programming
Maurice Wilkes, David Wheeler, and Stanley Gill – The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer
Maxime Crochemore and Wojciech Rytter – Jewels of Stringology
Nachum Dershowitz and Edward Reingold – Calendrical Calculations
Pedro Domingos – The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
Thomas H. Cormen – Algorithms Unlocked
William H. Press, Saul A. Teukolsky, and Brian P. Flannery – Numerical Recipes

Cryptocurrencies

Alex Tapscott – Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World
Andreas Antonopoulos – Mastering Bitcoin, Mastering Ethereum, and The Internet of Money
Ben Mezrich – Bitcoin Billionaires
David Gerard – Attack of the 50-foot Blockchain
Nathaniel Popper – Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money
Saifedean Ammous – The Bitcoin Standard
Vitalik Buterin – Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains

Cryptography

Craig P. Bauer – Unsolved!
David Kahn (writer) – The Codebreakers
John Falconer – Cryptomenysis Patefacta
Leo Marks – Between Silk and Cyanide
Matt Curtin – Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard
Simon Singh – The Code Book
Steven Levy – Crypto
William F. Friedman – Military Cryptanalytics

Unix

Linux

Bruce Perens – Bruce Perens' Open Source Series
Eric S. Raymond – The Cathedral and the Bazaar
Gerard Beekmans – Linux from Scratch
Glyn Moody – Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution
Jonathan Oxer – Ubuntu Hacks
Kenneth Brown – Samizdat: And Other Issues Regarding the 'Source' of Open Source Code
Michael Kerrisk – The Linux Programming Interface
Michael W. Lucas – Absolute OpenBSD
Olaf Kirch & Terry Dawson – Linux Network Administrator's Guide

Artificial intelligence

Other / General Programming

Andrew S. Tanenbaum – Modern Operating Systems and Operating Systems: Design and Implementation
Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas – The Pragmatic Programmer
Benjamin C. Pierce – Types and Programming Languages
Bertrand Meyer – Object-Oriented Software Construction
Bryan O'Sullivan, Don Stewart, and John Goerzen – Real World Haskell
Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike – The Practice of Programming
Brian W. Kernighan – The AWK Programming Language and The Elements of Programming Style
Tony Hoare and He Jifeng – Unifying Theories of Programming
Charles Petzold – Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Chris DiBona – Open Sources and Open Sources 2.0
Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones – How Data Happened
Claude Shannon – A Mathematical Theory of Communication
Diomidis Spinellis – Code Reading
Danny Hillis – The Pattern on the Stone
Edward Yourdon – Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer and other publications
Ellen Ullman – Close to the Machine
Fred Brooks – The Mythical Man-Month
Gang of Four – Design Patterns
Geoffrey James – The Tao of Programming
Gerald M. Weinberg – The Psychology of Computer Programming
Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf – Enterprise Integration Patterns
Ivo D. Dinov – Data Science and Predictive Analytics
Jack Copeland, Jonathan Bowen, Robin Wilson – The Turing Guide
Jean E. Sammet – Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals
Jean-Raymond Abrial – The B-Book
Joel Spolsky – The Best Software Writing I
Joshua Pearce – Open-Source Lab
Keith Curtis – After the Software Wars
Martin Fowler – Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert – Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry
Michael Garey and David S. Johnson – Computers and Intractability
Michael Halvorson – Learn BASIC Now
Michael Sipser – Introduction to the Theory of Computation
Myron W. Krueger – Artificial Reality
Narendra M. Thumbhekodige – The Oracle J2EE Companion
Neal Stephenson – In the Beginning... Was the Command Line
Nicole Forsgren – Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps
Pekka Himanen and Linus Torvalds (epilogue) – The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age
Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture
Paul Graham – Hackers & Painters
Peter Norvig – Paradigms of AI Programming
Peter Seibel – Coders at Work
Randi J. Rost — OpenGL Shading Language and X and MOTIF Quick Reference Guide
Richard M. Stallman – Free Software, Free Society
Richard P. Gabriel – Patterns of Software and Innovation Happens Elsewhere
Robert C. Martin – Clean Code
Rodnay Zaks – Programming the Z80
Sam Williams – Free as in Freedom
Scott Rosenberg – Dreaming in Code
Seth Lloyd – Programming the Universe
Steve McConnell – Code Complete
Stephen Wolfram – A New Kind of Science
The Khronos OpenGL Architecture Review Board Working Group — OpenGL Programming Guild
Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister – Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams
William Brown – AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis
William Wulf – The Design of an Optimizing Compiler

Internet

Douglas Rushkoff — Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace
Jack Goldsmith, Tim Wu — Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of Borderless World
Tim Berners-Lee — Weaving the Web

Hackers and hacker culture

Bill Blunden – The Rootkit Arsenal
Bill Landreth and Howard Rheingold – Out of the Inner Circle
Bruce Sterling – The Hacker Crackdown
Clifford Stoll – The Cuckoo's Egg
Cory Doctorow – Little Brother
Douglas Thomas – Hacker Culture
Daniel Golden and Renee Dudley – The Ransomware Hunting Team
Eric S. Raymond – The New Hacker's Dictionary and Revenge of the Hackers
Glyn Moody – Rebel Code
Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, and Julie Sussman – Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Hugo Cornwall – The Hacker's Handbook
Jon "Smibbs" Erickson – Hacking: The Art of Exploitation
Joseph Menn – Fatal System Error
Julian Assange – Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet
Kevin Mitnick – Ghost in the Wires and The Art of Intrusion
Kevin Poulsen – Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
Linus Torvalds and David Diamond – Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
Malcolm Nance – The Plot to Hack America
Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
Sam Williams – Free as in Freedom
Scott J. Shapiro – Fancy Bear Goes Phishing
Sean Bodmer, Max Kilger, Gregory Carpenter, and Jade Jones – Reverse Deception
Steven Levy – Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Suelette Dreyfus – Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier
William Cheswick and Steven M. Bellovin – Firewalls and Internet Security

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