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So Kernighan and Plauger's _Elements of Programming Style_ was probably the first book I read on how to think about *programming* rather than how to *use* some language or operating system.
I don't know why it occurred to me, but I tracked own archive.org's pdf version, and I've been skimming through it. The writing is as good as I remember, and the pithy guidelines are all still sound (well, I suppose "Avoid Fortran's Arithmetic IF" can safely be considered no longer necessary).
I'd still recommend it to folks today, but with the caveat the examples may be difficult going, being in fixed column layout FORTRAN and PL/I, neither of which are likely to be familiar to any programmer much younger than me.