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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 137 times as computers)
avg rating 4.33 — 23,754 ratings — published 1999
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as computers)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,432 ratings — published 1999
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as computers)
avg rating 4.01 — 14,956 ratings — published 1975
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as computers)
avg rating 4.28 — 15,546 ratings — published 1989
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as computers)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,519 ratings — published 1984
The C Programming Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as computers)
avg rating 4.44 — 11,238 ratings — published 1978
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as computers)
avg rating 4.47 — 4,836 ratings — published 1984
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as computers)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,456 ratings — published 1993
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as computers)
avg rating 4.36 — 23,195 ratings — published 2007
Steve Jobs (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as computers)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,344,266 ratings — published 2011
Introduction to Algorithms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as computers)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,271 ratings — published 1989
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as computers)
avg rating 4.20 — 11,880 ratings — published 1994
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 80 times as computers)
avg rating 3.97 — 27,150 ratings — published 2011
The Soul of a New Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as computers)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,342 ratings — published 1981
In the Beginning...Was the Command Line (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 66 times as computers)
avg rating 3.81 — 8,080 ratings — published 1999
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 65 times as computers)
avg rating 4.12 — 39,457 ratings — published 2011
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as computers)
avg rating 4.24 — 8,792 ratings — published 1999
The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as computers)
avg rating 3.83 — 4,288 ratings — published 1999
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 60 times as computers)
avg rating 4.13 — 34,473 ratings — published 2016
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 56 times as computers)
avg rating 4.24 — 30,499 ratings — published 2000
Digital Fortress (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as computers)
avg rating 3.70 — 661,195 ratings — published 1998
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (ebook)
by (shelved 55 times as computers)
avg rating 4.70 — 10,227 ratings — published 2015
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as computers)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,712 ratings — published 1999
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as computers)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,384 ratings — published 1996
JavaScript: The Good Parts (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as computers)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,658 ratings — published 2008
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as computers)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,882 ratings — published 1996
Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as computers)
avg rating 3.97 — 4,734 ratings — published 2001
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as computers)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,417 ratings — published 1994
iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as computers)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,437 ratings — published 2006
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as computers)
avg rating 4.26 — 49,376 ratings — published 2013
The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as computers)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,885 ratings — published 1973
The C++ Programming Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as computers)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,019 ratings — published 1986
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as computers)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,015 ratings — published 1986
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as computers)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,280,914 ratings — published 2011
The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as computers)
avg rating 3.77 — 7,204 ratings — published 2001
Learning Python (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as computers)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,193 ratings — published 2013
Programming Perl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as computers)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,300 ratings — published 1991
Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon (Hardcover)
by (shelved 41 times as computers)
avg rating 4.17 — 8,173 ratings — published 2014
Head First Design Patterns (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as computers)
avg rating 4.30 — 8,977 ratings — published 2004
Mastering Regular Expressions (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as computers)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,100 ratings — published 1997
Cryptonomicon (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as computers)
avg rating 4.23 — 116,295 ratings — published 1999
The Algorithm Design Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as computers)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,677 ratings — published 1997
Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as computers)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,538 ratings — published 2004
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as computers)
avg rating 4.29 — 19,895 ratings — published 2003
Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as computers)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,349 ratings — published 2009
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as computers)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,443 ratings — published 2000
Hacking: The Art of Exploitation w/CD (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as computers)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,499 ratings — published 2003
Automate the Boring Stuff with Python: Practical Programming for Total Beginners (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as computers)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,128 ratings — published 2014
Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as computers)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,662 ratings — published 2004
The Elements Of Computing Systems: Building A Modern Computer From First Principles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as computers)
avg rating 4.53 — 941 ratings — published 2005
“Well, Mr. Frankel, who started this program, began to suffer from the computer disease that anybody who works with computers now knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is you *play* with them. They are so wonderful. You have these switches - if it's an even number you do this, if it's an odd number you do that - and pretty soon you can do more and more elaborate things if you are clever enough, on one machine.
After a while the whole system broke down. Frankel wasn't paying any attention; he wasn't supervising anybody. The system was going very, very slowly - while he was sitting in a room figuring out how to make one tabulator automatically print arc-tangent X, and then it would start and it would print columns and then bitsi, bitsi, bitsi, and calculate the arc-tangent automatically by integrating as it went along and make a whole table in one operation.
Absolutely useless. We *had* tables of arc-tangents. But if you've ever worked with computers, you understand the disease - the *delight* in being able to see how much you can do. But he got the disease for the first time, the poor fellow who invented the thing.”
― Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
After a while the whole system broke down. Frankel wasn't paying any attention; he wasn't supervising anybody. The system was going very, very slowly - while he was sitting in a room figuring out how to make one tabulator automatically print arc-tangent X, and then it would start and it would print columns and then bitsi, bitsi, bitsi, and calculate the arc-tangent automatically by integrating as it went along and make a whole table in one operation.
Absolutely useless. We *had* tables of arc-tangents. But if you've ever worked with computers, you understand the disease - the *delight* in being able to see how much you can do. But he got the disease for the first time, the poor fellow who invented the thing.”
― Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character
“now it’s computers and more computers
and soon everybody will have one,
3-year-olds will have computers
and everybody will know everything
about everybody else
long before they meet them.
nobody will want to meet anybody
else ever again
and everybody will be
a recluse
like I am now.”
― The Continual Condition: Poems
and soon everybody will have one,
3-year-olds will have computers
and everybody will know everything
about everybody else
long before they meet them.
nobody will want to meet anybody
else ever again
and everybody will be
a recluse
like I am now.”
― The Continual Condition: Poems
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