 | Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey Friedl
Buy new: $29.69 / Used from: $22.00 This book ended my dislike of string processing. It made it fun and exciting. This needs to be on every computer scientist and web developer's bookshelf.
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 | Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series) by Erich Gamma
Buy new: $41.20 / Used from: $32.50 Love design patterns or hate them, it's actually a good idea to learn some of these tricks.
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 | Programming Collective Intelligence: Building Smart Web 2.0 Applications by Toby Segaran
Buy new: $23.99 / Used from: $19.25 A application-oriented approach to the theory dominated world of machine learning.
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 | Learning Python (Help for Programmers) by Mark Lutz
Buy used from: $10.47 A good O'Reilly text on Python, which I recommend to anyone as a first language. Good for the advanced programmer or someone who has never programmed before.
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 | Learning Perl, Second Edition by Randal L. Schwartz
Buy used from: $4.99 My first exclusive Perl book. Added for nostalgic reasons.
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 | Perl Best Practices by Damian Conway
Buy new: $23.97 / Used from: $19.00 Perl is good for text processing, but sometimes it's a pain to read someone else's code. D. Conway tries to help programmers by giving them a standard by which to write readable Perl programs.
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 | Digital Image Processing (3rd Edition) by Rafael C. Gonzalez
Buy new: $119.46 / Used from: $78.00 This is the Bible for image processing. All ideas on image processing start here.
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 | C Programming Language (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall Software) by Brian W. Kernighan
Buy new: $37.64 / Used from: $22.99 The only book you need to learn C. If you learned C from a different source, go back and relearn it the correct way.
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 | C Traps and Pitfalls by Andrew Koenig
Buy new: $29.58 / Used from: $14.50 The C Language is only as good as the person writing the C code. C takes practice. This book will help you avoid common C errors.
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 | C++ for Dummies, Second Edition by Stephen R. Davis
Buy used from: $0.01 My first programming book, which my Dad bought for me when I was in sixth grade. Sadly, it is very much outdated and comes with a useless compiler.
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 | The Elements of Programming Style by Brian W. Kernighan
Buy used from: $27.53 A very small book that teaches good programming technique.
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 | Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass (Signet Classics) by Lewis Carroll
Buy new: $3.95 / Used from: $1.42 'The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman.'
-From ACM's SIGPLAN publication, (September, 1982), Article "Epigrams in Programming", by Alan J. Perlis of Yale University.
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