📚 Computer Programmers

30 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with computer programmers on their catalogue record, first published between 1962 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject computer programmers in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 333 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Just for fun	Linus Torvalds	2001	14
Masters of Doom	David Kushner	2003	9
Programmers at work	Susan M. Lammers	1986	6
Close to the Machine	Ellen Ullman	1997	6
The Bug	Richard Strand	2000	6
Coders	Clive Thompson	2019	6
Go to	Steve Lohr	2001	5
Masterminds of Programming	Federico Biancuzzi	2008	5
Cracking The Coding Interview	Gayle Laakmann McDowell	2010	5
Minecraft	Daniel Goldberg	2013	5
Becoming a Better Programmer: A Handbook for People Who Care About Code	Pete Goodliffe	2014	5
The productive programmer	Neal Ford	2008	4
97 Things Every Programmer Should Know	Kevlin Henney	2010	4
Coding Freedom	E. Gabriella Coleman	2012	4
Java Programming Interviews Exposed	Noel Markham	2014	4
Hello, Startup	Yevgeniy Brikman	2015	4
Debugging Teams	Brian W. Fitzpatrick	2015	4
Tim Berners-Lee	Melissa Stewart	2001	3
The clean coder	Robert C. Martin	2011	3
Life in code	Ellen Ullman	2017	3
Google it	Anna Crowley Redding	2018	3
A profile of the programmer	Deutsch and Shea, inc.	1962	2
Understanding the professional programmer	Gerald M. Weinberg	1982	2
Hackers & painters	Graham, Paul	2004	2
Coders at Work	Peter Seibel	2009	2
Beginning Ethical Hacking with Python	Sanjib Sinha	2016	2
Minecraft Creator Markus "Notch" Persson	Kari Cornell	2016	2
Programmers	Margaret May Kimmel	1962	1
Computer personnel	Association for Computing Machinery. Special Interest Group on Computer Personnel Research	1969	1
Programmers	Jennifer Morris	1972	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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