Start with high-confidence open source development books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Go Programming Language, the
Alan Donovan, Brian Kernighan
Code
Charles Petzold
The AWK Programming Language
Alfred Aho, Brian Kernighan
Learn Python the Hard Way
Zed Shaw, Zed A. Shaw
The Elements of Computing Systems, Second Edition
Noam Nisan, Shimon Schocken
Learning eBPF
Liz Rice
Learning Python
Mark Lutz
Introducing Github
Peter Bell, Brent Beer
Coding for Chemists
Christopher J. Johnson, Benjamin J. Lear
Automate the Boring Stuff With Python, 2nd Edition
Al Sweigart
Grokking Algorithms, Second Edition
Aditya Y Bhargava
