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Book recommendations to learn programming fundamentals (lemmy.ml)
submitted 2 months ago by [email protected] to c/programming
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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.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

OOP was a 1990s thing that is still around but don't worry about it too much at first.

The classic intro book is Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs aka SICP. You can find it online with a web search. It will give you a good grounding in fundamentals. Then you can figure out what to pursue next.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Found it. Thank you!

[–] ericjmorey 4 points 2 months ago

Some people who are self studying Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs have been using a discord server to assist each other as needed. I realize that there are a number of people using Lemmy whi are very opposed to using discord over other options, but I don't know of any other sustained forums focused on this book.

https://discord.gg/j2tCPpMq