Hello! I’m looking for book recommendations for learning programming fundamentals.

To be clear, I’m not necessarily looking for a book on learning language(s), but rather, programming, theory I guess you might call it?

For example, I’ve been playing around a lot in my terminal writing bash scripts, and I just implemented my first function. Another example, I know the phrase “Object Oriented programming”, but have no idea what it means.

I learn well by doing, and I’ve learned a lot just writing scripts and reading about bash scripting, but I also realize there’s a lot about programming at a higher level that I know nothing about.

  • NostraDavid
    3•7 hours ago

    I am going to toot my own horn… Or rather: MIT’s horn.

    https://thaumatorium.com/articles/mit-courses/mit.drawio.svg

    This is a graph of most of MIT’s CompSci courses, where the lines are dependencies. If you want to learn something on the right, learn the connected things on the left.

    While there are video courses, the top link in each block links to MIT pages where they tend to recommend books for each course. The algorithm courses recommend “Introductions into Algorithms, Fourth Edition”, for example.

    I hope it helps (even if I don’t think this is the be-all end-all to your question).