10 must-read books for developers

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Blog site Stackoverflow posed an interesting question: "If you could go back in time and tell yourself to read a specific book at the beginning of your career as a developer, which book would it be?"

The accumulated wisdom of Stackoverflow readers posted over the past three years reads like a who's-who of the programming book industry, but several missing titles caught my eye.

Here's the Stackoverflow list:
1."Code Complete" by Steve McConnell (2004). Tackles every facet of programming, with tons of examples.
2."The Pragmatic Programmer" by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas (1999). Concentrates on nitty-gritty real-world approaches to solving problems through code.
3."Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" (2nd Edition, 1996) by Harold Abelson, Gerald Sussman, and Julie Sussman. Concentrates on breaking big problems down into little ones, and ensuring the pieces come back to build the whole. The book is available under the Creative Commons Noncommercial License, for free on the Web.
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