Ask HN: Best book to learn programming in 2022?

I&#x27;ve decided to relearn everything, starting at the very beginning. First up is the Chris Pine book. He&#x27;s a good writer. It&#x27;s very simple but fun.<p>I was curious and after a bit of looking around I found &quot;Introduction to Computation and Programming Using Python with Application to Computational Modeling and Understanding Data&quot;, third edition, by John V. Guttag, © 2021. Looks pretty good, though it&#x27;s a more traditional approach.<p>Basically, any language you might be interested in will have introductory books.<p>If you have trouble getting ahold of books, you can try (1) www.pdfdrive.com and (2) z-lib.org . The first one feels a little less sketchy but the second one has almost everything I look for, on every subject. I&#x27;ve had no trouble with either one so far, but use at your own risk.

&quot;Learn to program&quot; by Chris Pine <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pragprog.com&#x2F;titles&#x2F;ltp3&#x2F;learn-to-program-third-edition&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;pragprog.com&#x2F;titles&#x2F;ltp3&#x2F;learn-to-program-third-edit...</a> is a good book for beginners.

Grokking Algorithms. Not exactly the book that teaches how to program, but is great, beginner-friendly introduction to a bunch of important concepts and algorithms in computer science.