Programming from the Ground Up

Each of these is the best book on its subject. If you need to know these languages, these will tell you all you need to know.

• Programming Perl by Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, and Jon Orwant

• Common LISP: The Language by Guy R. Steele

• ANSI Common LISP by Paul Graham

• The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie

• The Waite Group's C Primer Plus by Stephen Prata

• The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup

• Thinking in Java by Bruce Eckel, available online at http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/

• The Scheme Programming Language by Kent Dybvig

• Linux Assembly Language Programming by Bob Neveln