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What are the best books for learning programming?

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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs vs Squeak: Object-Oriented Design with Multimedia Applications vs Smalltalk, Objects, and Design by Chamond Liu

 vs Learn you some Erlang for great good vs Programming Elixir vs How to Design Programs vs Composing Programs

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 Mathy

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 Teaches almost all of Computer Science and Programming in a minimal (but powerful) language

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 Has an accompanying video series that's extremely helpful

It's like going to MIT for CS lecture.
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 Squeak (and Pharo) are great places to start

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 Gets you to really think in objects

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 Excellent beginner guide to functional programming with Erlang

This book is very well written and has amusing illustrations. The style is very friendly to those who have never written code in a functional language.
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 The authoritative book on Elixir

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