Recommended books?
Published December 11th, 2006 in GeneralI’m looking to buy a few more computer related books, any suggestions? Kinda hard to answer, considering you don’t know what I already own…but still…any computer books that are highly recommended? It can be anything really, algorithms, graphics, data structures, perl, lisp, smalltalk, the list goes on.
This is a great book and can be bought as a PDF or on paper: http://pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/ruby/index.html
These guys publish a lot of other good books. I have bought quite a few books from them (in PDF format).
Learn Ocaml!
And this is a great book about it: http://www.ffconsultancy.com/products/ocaml_for_scientists/
You can read the first chapter online.
If you like lisp, you might enjoy Types and Programming Languages (Pierce). Covers how types interact with programming languages, and starts out looking at how types work in simplified languages based on lambda calculus.
Be warned, lots of theory, but still very readable. If you are scared off by a small amount of proofs, don’t bother, but then the theory of types is likely to not interest either
CodeComplete. I can’t recommend it highly enough.
A simple solution to the problem of us not knowing what books you have is to just post a picture of your bookshelf.
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