📚 Programming

Books with programming on their catalogue record, first published between 1900 and 2015, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 22 works carrying the subject programming in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 166,682 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
	Software Engineering	Roger S. Pressman	1982	55
	The C Programming Language	Brian W. Kernighan	1978	50
	C++	Paul J. Deitel	1996	30
	Structured Computer Organization	Andrew S. Tanenbaum	1975	19
	Introduction to Algorithms	Thomas H. Cormen	1990	18
	Software engineering	Ian Sommerville	1982	16
	Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP)	Harold Abelson	1985	16
	Raspberry Pi User Guide	Eben Upton	2012	16
	The art of computer programming	Donald Knuth	1968	15
	Hackers	Steven Levy	1984	15
	BASIC	Robert J. Bent	1978	14
	The Mythical Man-Month	Frederick P. Brooks	1974	11
	Microprocessors and interfacing	Douglas V. Hall	1900	9
	Masters of Doom	David Kushner	2003	9
	Game engine architecture	Jason Gregory	2009	8
	Automate the Boring Stuff with Python	Al Sweigart	2015	8
	Data structures and algorithm analysis in C	Mark Allen Weiss	1993	7
	The Go Programming Language	Alan A. A. Donovan	2015	7
	JavaScript	Douglas Crockford	2008	6
	Head first Java	Kathy Sierra	2003	5
	Game Programming Patterns	Robert Nystrom	2011	4
	The Waite Group's Turbo C programming for the PC	Robert Lafore	1988	1

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

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