Programming Book Wish List

[Little Bobby Tables]

Hey guys... Christmas is coming up, and I'm trying to get serious about programming. Does anyone recommend any? The areas I want to study:
- compiler design
- language design
- beautiful code
- networking (the basics)
- systems programming (and os design)

any other book recommendations are welcome too

[helios]

compiler design

The purple dragon book.

language design

You can check out Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation by Shriram Krishnamurthi, which is available online.

[Little Bobby Tables]

The purple dragon book.

sorry i forgot to mention not that book. i already have it and dont like it. thanks for the suggestions though! ill make sure to check out the latter

[z05DSL3A]

(and os design)

The Dinosaur book.^[*]



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^{[*] Operating System Concepts by Abraham Silberschatz et al}

[ResidentBiscuit]

I have the Dinosaur Book!