Ask HN: What books for beginners in electronics and programming

This is a short, and not yet finished list of books that will be submitted for inclusion into a STEM center library at a small community college in a dirt-poor area of South Texas. The vocational degree plans are Drafting, Electronics, CS, Video Game something or other, and the academic track degree plans that will be affected are the usual, Physics, Chem, Biology, Math. I teach electronics, so I am primarily concerned with that, but, I also have to spend considerable class time teaching physics and math, so I'm interested in good books to help with that as well.

I'm thinking about some Forrest Mims type books for beginner circuit work, but I haven't opened one in years; so, if any of you know anything like it, please let me know.

Turtle Geometry, The Art of Electronics 2nd ed, The Art of Electronics 3rd when available, The Engineering Handbook, Second Edition, CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics, Ugly's Electrical Reference, The Pocket Reference by Thomas Glover, The Mythical Man-Month, K&R, The Pragmatic Programmer

Pyzdek's guide to SPC - I'd like to find a nice short treatment of statistics and SPC, Pyzdek's is had to get hold of these days. Maybe there's a better one now.

Some PG, Some Joel Spoolsky, ???

Anything else that might stimulate some interest in the subject matter, or otherwise help students, be it directly related or not.