The Tao of Programming

{{Infobox book

| name = The Tao of Programming

| image = The Tao of Programming.jpg| author = Geoffrey James

| illustrator = Gloria Garland

| cover_artist = Gloria Garland

| country = United States

| language = English

| subject = Computer programming

| genre = Computer programming, Satire

| publisher = InfoBooks

| pub_date = 1987

| media_type = Print (Paperback)

| pages = 151

| isbn = 0-931137-07-1

| dewey= 005 19

| congress= QA76.6 .J354 1987

| oclc= 13904639

| followed_by = The Zen of Programming

}}

The Tao of Programming is a book written in 1987 by Geoffrey James. Written in a tongue-in-cheek style spoof of classic Taoist texts such as the Tao Te Ching and Zhuangzi which belies its serious message, it consists of a series of short anecdotes divided into nine "books":{{Cite web|last=James| first=Geoffrey |url=http://www.mit.edu/~xela/tao.html|title=The Tao of Programming}}

• The Silent Void
• The Ancient Masters
• Design
• Coding
• Maintenance
• Management
• Corporate Wisdom
• Hardware and Software
• Epilogue

Geoffrey James wrote two other books on this theme, The Zen of Programming (978-0931137099) in 1988 and Computer Parables: Enlightenment in the Information Age (978-0931137136) in 1989.