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by adolfopa 5039 days ago
For beginners, these are good:

- How to design programs (http://htdp.org)

- The Little/Seasoned/Reasoned Schemer.

- Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Petzold

- Coders at work by Peter Seibel

- The Pragmatic Programmer by Hunt and Thomas

- Code Complete by McConnell

For intermediate/experienced people:

- Structure and Interpretation of computer programs (http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html)

- Software Tools in Pascal by Kernighan and Plauger.

- Programming Pearls by Bentley

- Smalltalk 80: The Language and Its Implementation by Adele Goldberg.

- Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming by Norvig

- A Discipline of Programming by Dijkstra

While I've ommited some important language specific books, and ignored essential areas (algorithms, discrete math, hw arquitecture), I think this is a good starting point.