ASK HN: Hacker Bibles
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Surely You're Joking, Mr Feynman (or anything else by Feynman is very relevant)
Understanding the Linux Kernel is surprisingly thorough not just in its coverage of the Linux kernel, but also architecture and OS design in general
The Design and Implementation of FBSD book now covers 5.3, which is much less dated than the 4.4 text.
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach is one of my favorite CS books and covers AI topics with surprising clarity.
The Design of Everyday Things
Linkers & Loaders, I'd hesitate to call this a bible of any sort, but it's a rarely-referenced gem that covers a topic few others do and it's relevant to me, at least.
Probably others I'm missing. This is a very good list though.
Understanding the Linux Kernel is surprisingly thorough not just in its coverage of the Linux kernel, but also architecture and OS design in general
The Design and Implementation of FBSD book now covers 5.3, which is much less dated than the 4.4 text.
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach is one of my favorite CS books and covers AI topics with surprising clarity.
The Design of Everyday Things
Linkers & Loaders, I'd hesitate to call this a bible of any sort, but it's a rarely-referenced gem that covers a topic few others do and it's relevant to me, at least.
Probably others I'm missing. This is a very good list though.
Thanks for adding to it yan! I have been meaning to get my hands on the Feynman books...
1. Peopleware: http://www.amazon.com/Peopleware-Productive-Projects-Teams-S...
2. Pragmatic Programmer: http://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-Master...
2. Pragmatic Programmer: http://www.amazon.com/Pragmatic-Programmer-Journeyman-Master...
How could I forget Peopleware? Good call! I've also been meaning to read Pragmatic Programmer, thanks for the reminder...
W. R. Stevens: TCP/IP Illustrated Vol. 1-3, Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, and UNIX Network Programming Vol. 1 and 2.
The Algorithm Design Manual - Skiena
Purely Functional Data Structures - Okasaki
Algorithmics - Harel
The Practice of Programming - Kernighan & Pike
Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems - Bernstein, Hadzilacos, Goodman.
Recovery in Parallel Database Systems - Hvasshovd
ACM Turing Award Lectures
Purely Functional Data Structures - Okasaki
Algorithmics - Harel
The Practice of Programming - Kernighan & Pike
Concurrency Control and Recovery in Database Systems - Bernstein, Hadzilacos, Goodman.
Recovery in Parallel Database Systems - Hvasshovd
ACM Turing Award Lectures
Also a decent list of books: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/FogCreekMBACurriculum...
Computer Architecture, Fourth Edition: A Quantitative Approach - John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson
The Black Swan - Nicholas Nassim Taleb
The Black Swan - Nicholas Nassim Taleb
Working Effectively With Legacy Code - Michael C. Feathers
Below are my favorites (in no particular order), what other "greats" am I missing?
The Art of Computer Programming (three volumes + fascicles) - Knuth (aka TAOCP)
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs - Abelson and Sussman (aka SICP, aka The Wizard Book)
Introduction to Algorithms - Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein (aka CLRS)
Design Patterns - Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides
The C Programming Language - Kernighan, Ritchie
The C++ Programming Language - Stroustrup
The Scheme Programming Language - Dybvig
Practical Common LISP - Seibel
Programming Perl - Wall, Christiansen and Orwant
ANSI Common Lisp - Graham
Refactoring - Fowler
UML Distilled - Fowler
Introduction to the Theory of Computation - Sisper
Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms - MacKay
Modern Operating Systems - Tanenbaum
On Lisp - Graham
Hackers & Painters - Graham
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence - Norvig
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning - Bishop
The Java Language Specification - Gosling, Joy, Steele
Learning Python - Lutz & Ascher
Programming Erlang - Armstrong
Programming Ruby - Thomas, Fowler, Hunt
Calculus - Spivak
How to Solve It - Polya
The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 FreeBSD Operating System - McKusick, Bostic, Karels, Quarterman
The Design of the Unix Operating System - Bach
The Unix Programming Environment - Kernighan, Pike
The Art of Unix Programming - Raymond
Godel, Escher, Bach - Hofstadter
Metamagical Themas - Hofstadter
Joel on Software - Spolsky
Code Complete - McConneli
The Mythical Man-Month - Brooks
No Silver Bullet - Brooks
The Long Tail - Anderson
The Art of the Start - Kawasaki