The Practice of Programming

Brian Kernighan (the K in K&R and AWK) also wrote a similar book with P. J. Plauger called "The Elements of Programming Style" [1]. There's even a talk by him about it online (2009) [2]. Kernighan also co-authored a (imo) really great book with Rob Pike (once an assistant of Penn & Teller [3]) called "The Practice of Programming" [4]. Unfortunately, this one is a bit over the 200 page limit. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Programming_St... (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Programming_Style) [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SUkrR7ZfTA [3] https://youtu.be/z4iVAcYyWN0?t=180 [4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Practice_of_Programming

It is by K&P, not K&R. Great book though.

The Practice of Programming by K & R. Or has this fallen out of favor?

- The Practice of Programming ; Kernighan and Pike - The Advent of the Algorithm ; Berlinski - Engineering a Compiler ; Torczon and Cooper - Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment ; Stevens and Rago - Databases, Types, and the Relational Model ; Date - Code ; Petzold

+1. I have a corner of a bookshelf reserved for everything Kernighan, e.g. both Software Tools editions, both C Language editions, The Unix Programming Environment, The Practice of Programming, The AWK Language, even a copy of The Elements of Programming Style. I, and my employers and clients, may owe more to Mr. Kernighan for his teaching and programming style, than anyone else.

- The Pragmatic Programmer - The Practice of Programming - The Mythical Man Month - The Cathedral and the Bazaar - The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Introduction to Algorithms - Hackers and Painters Some of these do contain mixed language code examples, but they are expressed in a way to be agnostic. A problem is a problem; in any language.

I think "The Practice of Programming" was and is very good. https://www.amazon.com/Practice-Programming-Addison-Wesley-P... (https://www.amazon.com/Practice-Programming-Addison-Wesley-Professional-Computing/dp/020161586X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1496666291&sr=8-1&keywords=the+practice+of+programming)

I've been reading _The Practice of Programming_ (Pike, Kernighan) lately; it's mainly geared towards Java and C/C++ programmers, but even as a DevOps engineer I'm finding a lot of it useful. https://www.amazon.com/Practice-Programming-Addison-Wesley-P... (https://www.amazon.com/Practice-Programming-Addison-Wesley-Professional-Computing/dp/020161586X)

They are technical. Brushing up on: K&R - The C Programming Language K&P - The Unix Programming Environment K&P - The Practice of Programming Kerrisk - The Linux Programming Interface (Not light reading) Even though it is mostly review, reading code and seeing commands that K&R&P run has actually helped my workflow, code quality, etc. Highly recommend re-reading if it has been a while. Even things like variable names have noticeably improved since beginning re-reading. And, the Linux Programming Interface....is huge. There's always more to learn in there.