Programming Books Recommendations

[PanP5]

Advanced Programming in the UNIX(R) Environment (2nd Edition) (Hardcover)
~ W. Richard Stevens (Author), Stephen A. Rago
Stephen A. Rago (Author)

This is a life-saver. Thank you for the suggestion! This is a must own book for anyone working in a Unix related environment.

[mmix]

Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective, Second Edition (CS:APP2e)
Randal E. Bryant and David R. O'Hallaron
Prentice Hall, 2011 (ISBN 0-13-610804-0) 
http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/

Unix Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API (3rd Edition) (Hardcover)
~ W. Richard Stevens

UNIX Systems Programming: Communication, Concurrency and Threads (Hardcover)
~ Kay A. Robbins

[kcode]

The Unix Programming Environment by Kernighan and Pike

[rainbowsoft]

Thinking in Java, by Bruce Eckel
ISBN : 0136597238
Beginning Java 2, by Ivor Horton
ISBN : 1861002238
Java in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition - covers all the core API except for Swing/AWT, updated for Java 2 v 1.3

[mmix]

The fxtbook: "Matters Computational"
Jörg Arndt
http://www.jjj.de/fxt/fxtpage.html#fxtbook

On Lisp
Paul Graham
http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html

[linuxuser64]

If you're not exactly new but in a limbo from beginner on your way to employable, I recommend Stroustrup's Programming: Principles and Practice using C++.

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Pr.../dp/0321543726

King's C Programming: A Modern Approach is also a great C book but probably not for absolute beginners (see Prata, C Primer Plus for that).

http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Ap.../dp/0393969452

[linuxuser64]

I agree the O'Reilly books are great.

A couple of good Java books include Introduction to Java Programming Comprehensive Version by Liang and Starting Out With Java: Early Objects by Gaddis.

http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-J.../dp/0132130807
http://www.amazon.com/Starting-Out-J.../dp/0321497686

[vlaar]

Java A Beginner's guide 4th edition is a very good book for starters (from scratch that is) I absolutely recommend it.

http://www.ebooknetworking.net/books...072263849.html

[jon zendatta]

A book on C : Programming in C, by Al Kelley and Ira Pohl

and
http://www.fishpond.co.nz/Books/Comp...+C+Programming