The C Programming Language
Under 300 pages and it teaches you a language plus what memory actually is. Worth doing even if you will never write C professionally, because pointers, the stack and manual allocation stop being scary words once you have used them. The clearest technical writing on this list.
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Other
Kernighan and Ritchie
Intermediate
around $50
Under 300 pages and it teaches you a language plus what memory actually is. Worth doing even if you will never write C professionally, because pointers, the stack and manual allocation stop being scary words once you have used them. The clearest technical writing on this list.
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