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Programming Pearls

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A collection of columns originally published in Communications of the ACM, each presenting a problem and walking through the reasoning required to reach an elegant, efficient solution. Kernighan praises it for 'lots of good insight into how to approach programming tasks, with an emphasis on algorithms.'

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Brian Kernighan

cs.princeton.edu

“Lots of good insight into how to approach programming tasks, with an emphasis on algorithms.”

Listed in the Programming section alongside McConnell's books.
Jeff Atwood

Jeff Atwood — Recommended Reading for Developers

“It is the collective wisdom of many journeyman coders distilled into succinct, digestible columns.”

Part of Atwood's canonical developer reading list on Coding Horror; he calls it 'the next best thing to working side by side with a master programmer for a year or so.'