Computer Science

Computer science is the scientific and practical approach to computation and its applications. It is the systematic study of the feasibility, structure, expression, and mechanization of the methodical procedures (or algorithms) that underlie the acquisition, representation, processing, storage, communication of, and access to information, whether such information is encoded as bits in a computer memory or transcribed in genes and protein structures in a biological cell. A computer scientist specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computational systems.

Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI
If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies: Why Superhuman AI Would Kill Us All
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race That Will Change the World
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
This Is for Everyone: The Unfinished Story of the World Wide Web
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want
Quo vAIdis
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
Quantum Supremacy
Maintenance of Everything: Part One
AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference
Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
Introduction to Algorithms
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
The C Programming Language
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series)
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
The Algorithm Design Manual
Introduction to the Theory of Computation
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Open Syllabus SQL Books
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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming by Peter NorvigANSI Common Lisp by Paul    GrahamProgramming Clojure by Stuart HallowayLisp in Small Pieces by Christian QueinnecThe Art of the Metaobject Protocol by Gregor Kiczales
Rich Hickey's Clojure Bookshelf
39 books — 3 voters
Influence by Robert B. CialdiniThe Marketing Machine by Ros ConkieStructures by J.E. GordonTeam Topologies by Matthew    SkeltonThe Creative Act by Rick Rubin
Holistic Engineer
25 books — 5 voters


Brian  Christian
Seemingly innocuous language like 'Oh, I'm flexible' or 'What do you want to do tonight?' has a dark computational underbelly that should make you think twice. It has the veneer of kindness about it, but it does two deeply alarming things. First, it passes the cognitive buck: 'Here's a problem, you handle it.' Second, by not stating your preferences, it invites the others to simulate or imagine them. And as we have seen, the simulation of the minds of others is one of the biggest computational c ...more
Brian Christian, Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions

Alan J. Perlis
What's in your hands I think and hope is intelligence: the ability to see the machine as more than when you were first led up to it that you can make it more. ...more
Alan J. Perlis

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