📚 Programming Languages

21 works · ordered by editions in print

Books with programming languages on their catalogue record, first published between 1978 and 2016, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 21 works carrying the subject programming languages in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 28,340 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
The C Programming Language	Brian W. Kernighan	1978	50
C++	Herbert Schildt	1987	24
JavaScript	David Flanagan	1996	23
Learning Python	Mark Lutz	1999	23
Beginning programming with Java for dummies	Barry A. Burd	2003	22
The C++ programming language	Bjarne Stroustrup	1986	18
BASIC	Robert J. Bent	1978	14
JavaScript bible	Danny Goodman	1996	14
Python	Mark Lutz	1998	13
Eloquent Javascript	Marijn Haverbeke	2009	11
Think Python	Allen B. Downey	2009	11
Problem solving with C++	Walter J. Savitch	1996	9
JavaScript for dummies	Emily A. Vander Veer	1996	8
Python For Data Analysis	Wes McKinney	2012	8
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python	Al Sweigart	2015	8
Effective Python	Brett Slatkin	2015	8
JavaScript and jQuery	Jon Duckett	2014	7
Fluent Python	Luciano Ramalho	2015	6
Think Complexity: Complexity Science and Computational Modeling	Allen B. Downey	2012	5
Introduction to Machine Learning with Python	Andreas C. Mueller	2016	2
Seven Languages in Seven Weeks	Bruce Tate	2010	1

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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