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Comment author: protest_boy 01 February 2014 08:09:45AM 2 points [-]

I highly recommend the book Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming (http://www.amazon.com/Concepts-Techniques-Models-Computer-Programming/dp/0262220695) which is the closest I've seen to distilling programming to its essence. It's language agnostic in the sense that you start with a small "kernel language" and build it up incorporating different concepts as needed.

Comment author: Dr_Manhattan 03 February 2014 10:18:27PM 1 point [-]