How long does it take to read The Practice of Programming?
The Practice of Programming by Brian W. Kernighan takes about 5 hours 17 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 17 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1999. 288 pages, about 79,200 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 48 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 17 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 18 minutes |
The page count is the median across 1 edition, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
A compendium of practical matters of importance to working programmers.
Subjects: Computer programming, Programmation (Informatique), Programmierung, Programmeren (computers), Algoritmen, Datastructuren
