📚 Computer Programming

Books with computer programming on their catalogue record, first published between 1971 and 2017, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject computer programming in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 64,961 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.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	SQL for Dummies	Allen G. Taylor	1993	43
	C++	Paul J. Deitel	1996	30
	JavaScript	David Flanagan	1996	23
	The C++ programming language	Bjarne Stroustrup	1986	18
	Introduction to Algorithms	Thomas H. Cormen	1990	18
	Operating systems	William Stallings	1992	18
	Software engineering	Ian Sommerville	1982	16
	Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP)	Harold Abelson	1985	16
	Beginning programming for dummies	Wallace Wang	1996	15
	Java how to program--early objects	Paul J. Deitel	2011	14
	Introduction to Java Programming	Y. Daniel Liang	1999	12
	The Mythical Man-Month	Frederick P. Brooks	1974	11
	The Pragmatic Programmer	Andy Hunt	1999	11
	Think Python	Allen B. Downey	2009	11
	Programming in ANSI C	E. Balagurusamy	1994	8
	Automate the Boring Stuff with Python	Al Sweigart	2015	8
	Teach yourself C++	Herbert Schildt	1990	7
	Code	Charles Petzold	1999	7
	Clean Architecture	Robert C. Martin	2017	7
	Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence	Peter Norvig	1991	6
	C programming	K. N. King	1996	6
	Fluent Python	Luciano Ramalho	2015	6
	The psychology of computer programming	Gerald M. Weinberg	1971	5
	Introduction to Programming with C++	Y. Daniel Liang	2007	5
	Cracking The Coding Interview	Gayle Laakmann McDowell	2010	5
	Mastering Blockchain	Imran Bashir	2017	5
	Operating systems	Stuart E. Madnick	1974	4
	An introduction to data structures with applications	Jean-Paul Tremblay	1976	4
	Beautiful Code	Andy Oram	2007	4
	Python for Kids	Jason R. Briggs	2012	4

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

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