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copied!<p><a href="http://WWW.Info.UCL.Ac.Be/~pvr/book" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (by Peter Van Roy and Seif Haridi)</a>: the title says it all. (From the same author and based on the book comes <a href="http://WWW.Info.UCL.Ac.Be/~pvr/paradigms" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this cool poster with ~30 of the most important programming paradigms</a>.) [Note: this book is colloquially known as CTM, you might stumble across that acronym from time to time.]</p> <p><a href="http://MITPress.MIT.Edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Structure and Intepretation of Computer Programs (by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman)</a>. SICP, as it is colloquially known, is probably <em>the</em> book about programming. Period. Don't forget <a href="http://SWISS.CSAIL.MIT.Edu/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the 1986 video lectures by the authors themselves</a> or <a href="http://ADUni.Org/courses/sicp/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">one</a> of the <a href="http://OCW.MIT.Edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-001Spring-2005/CourseHome/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">other</a> <a href="http://WebCast.Berkeley.Edu/course_details_new.php?seriesid=2010-B-26275" rel="nofollow noreferrer">courses</a> based on the book.</p> <p>The main difference between SICP and CTM is the approach: CTM teaches programming concepts by giving examples in a very powerful programming language (Distributed Oz) that already implements them, while SICP teaches programming concepts by implementing them in a language (Scheme, or rather a small subset of it) which doesn't already have them. IOW: CTM would teach OO be showing programs written in an OO language, SICP by implementing an OO system in Scheme.</p> <p><a href="http://MITPress.MIT.Edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11656" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Design Concepts in Programming Languages (by Franklyn A. Turbak and David K. Gifford with Mark A. Sheldon)</a> is more about Programming Language Theory than Programming. It's still pretty interesting, even though it doesn't directly address your question about Programming Concepts. But after all: how would you program without a programming language?</p> <p><a href="http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/0321193628" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Concepts of Programming Languages (by Robert W. Sebesta)</a> explains, well, Concepts of Programming Languages, starting with Konrad Zuse's Plankalkül, continuing with the first <em>real</em> programming languages like Fortran, Lisp, Cobol, Algol, BASIC and on to C, C++, Java and Ada. [Again, more of a Programming Language book than Programming.]</p>

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