Reddit mentions of The Automated Lighting Programmer's Handbook

• Automated Lighting: The Art and Science of Moving Light in Theatre, Live Performance, and Entertainment
  
  
• A Practical Guide to Stage Lighting Third Edition
  
  
• Stage Lighting Design: The Art, the Craft, the Life
  
  
• The Automated Lighting Programmer's Handbook
  
  
• Concert Lighting: Techniques, Art and Business
  
  
• Light Fantastic: The Art and Design of Stage Lighting (Great theatrical resource for history and theory, and beautiful photographs.)
  
  
• Bullet Proof ... I Wish I Was: The Lighting & Stage Design of Andi Watson (The text reads like an design student's pseudo-intellectual wet dream, but the pictures are great.)
  
  
• Photometrics Handbook
  
  
• Stage Design: Concerts, Events, Ceremonies and Theater

The bible on the topic: https://www.amazon.com/Automated-Lighting-Programmers-Handbook/dp/024081553X

This book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/024081553X/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?qid=1370445799&sr=8-1&pi=SL75

It covers the basics, and some good practices while programming.

The Automated Lighting Programmer's Handbook 2nd Edition
by Brad Schiller https://www.amazon.com/Automated-Lighting-Programmers-Handbook/dp/024081553X

Electricity for the Entertainment Electrician & Technician 2nd Edition
by Richard Cadena https://www.amazon.com/Electricity-Entertainment-Electrician-Technician-Richard/dp/0415714834/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1466434438&sr=1-1&keywords=richard+cadena

The Lighting Art: The Aesthetics of Stage Lighting Design (2nd Edition) 2nd Edition by Richard H. Palmer https://www.amazon.com/Lighting-Art-Aesthetics-Stage-Design/dp/0135010810/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

Good luck