What books would you suggest to beginners who wish to learn programming?

2 points·debanjan16··5 comments

What book/resource would you suggest to budding teenagers who like solving problems and want to learn programming and computer science? And they want to cover both depth and breadth of CS.

View on HN

Book - How to Design Programs - https://htdp.org/2022-2-9/Book/index.html

Course - CS50 - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhQjrBD2T382_R182iC2g...

Both require no prerequisite knowledge and are very well regarded.

HtDP vs the course by Gregor Kiczales? And why HtDP if I may ask?

It's not "vs", that course is based on the book. I can see that you've posted a few threads like this one in the past week - in that time you could have made some progress in your learning instead of repeatedly asking where to start.

HTDP is exactly designed for beginners and the software tooling in the form of Racket is available as a batteries included download.

When Kiczales course first came online via Coursera, I took the first live version. It was a great curriculum, but that's an entirely different structure than a book, and with the automation that now infects MOOC's an entirely different structure than a synchronous academic class.

This question has been asked and answered in Hacker News numerous times. Use the search box below to search for “programming books” and “computer science books.”

Reply on news.ycombinator.com