Ask HN: Good short programming books

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Recommendations for programming books that are short in length but still valuable in content? I find that many programming books are lengthy and as a result I am demotivated to start (or finish) reading them. By short I mean preferably under 200 pages.

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"Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer" is a really good book for learning object oriented design. Not sure how long - but it's worth it - and you don't really have to read the whole thing.

Pragmatic Programmer is great. It's overall page count might be long but it is broken into short, isolated chapters.

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