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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as computing)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,885 ratings — published 1999
The C Programming Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as computing)
avg rating 4.44 — 11,436 ratings — published 1978
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as computing)
avg rating 4.33 — 24,587 ratings — published 1999
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as computing)
avg rating 4.47 — 4,879 ratings — published 1984
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as computing)
avg rating 4.01 — 15,308 ratings — published 1975
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as computing)
avg rating 4.35 — 23,800 ratings — published 2007
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as computing)
avg rating 4.20 — 12,053 ratings — published 1994
Introduction to Algorithms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as computing)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,396 ratings — published 1989
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as computing)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,510 ratings — published 1993
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Addison-wesley Object Technology Series)
by (shelved 51 times as computing)
avg rating 4.24 — 8,881 ratings — published 1999
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as computing)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,496 ratings — published 1994
The Soul of a New Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as computing)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,831 ratings — published 1981
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (ebook)
by (shelved 46 times as computing)
avg rating 4.69 — 11,267 ratings — published 2015
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as computing)
avg rating 4.12 — 36,056 ratings — published 2016
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as computing)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,652 ratings — published 1984
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as computing)
avg rating 4.28 — 16,753 ratings — published 1989
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as computing)
avg rating 4.29 — 54,024 ratings — published 1979
The Little Schemer (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as computing)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,995 ratings — published 1974
The Elements Of Computing Systems: Building A Modern Computer From First Principles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as computing)
avg rating 4.54 — 993 ratings — published 2005
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as computing)
avg rating 4.30 — 29,598 ratings — published 1999
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as computing)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,995 ratings — published 1996
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as computing)
avg rating 4.25 — 51,346 ratings — published 2013
Programming Pearls (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as computing)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,227 ratings — published 1986
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as computing)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,025 ratings — published 1986
Introduction to the Theory of Computation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as computing)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,135 ratings — published 1996
Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as computing)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,387 ratings — published 2009
The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as computing)
avg rating 3.83 — 4,350 ratings — published 1999
Effective Java (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as computing)
avg rating 4.51 — 8,109 ratings — published 2001
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (ebook)
by (shelved 32 times as computing)
avg rating 3.60 — 4,750 ratings — published 2012
The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as computing)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,347 ratings — published 2011
The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as computing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,897 ratings — published 1973
The C++ Programming Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as computing)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,041 ratings — published 1986
A Philosophy of Software Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as computing)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,912 ratings — published 2018
JavaScript: The Good Parts (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as computing)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,681 ratings — published 2008
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 31 times as computing)
avg rating 4.24 — 31,153 ratings — published 2000
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as computing)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,908 ratings — published 2003
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as computing)
avg rating 4.12 — 40,559 ratings — published 2014
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as computing)
avg rating 4.54 — 1,705 ratings — published 2001
The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as computing)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,192 ratings — published 2008
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as computing)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,491 ratings — published 2011
Clean Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as computing)
avg rating 4.21 — 7,285 ratings — published 2017
The Algorithm Design Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as computing)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,695 ratings — published 1997
Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as computing)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,692 ratings — published 2004
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as computing)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,669 ratings — published 2004
Computer Networks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as computing)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,419 ratings — published 1981
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as computing)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,900 ratings — published 2002
Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as computing)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,165 ratings — published 2002
Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as computing)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,269 ratings — published 2014
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as computing)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,533 ratings — published 2000
Modern Operating Systems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as computing)
avg rating 4.14 — 2,225 ratings — published 1992
“... as corporations have been able to place themselves in the role arbiter of their own products and value, it has meant that democratic input into the process of deciding technologies are safe, useful, or worthwhile has been short-circuited.”
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“Imagine an alternate universe in which people don’t have words for different forms of transportation—only the collective noun “vehicle.” They use that word to refer to cars, buses, bikes, spacecraft, and all other ways of getting from place A to place B. Conversations in this world are confusing. There are furious debates about whether or not vehicles are environmentally friendly, even though no one realizes that one side of the debate is talking about bikes and the other side is talking about trucks. There is a breakthrough in rocketry, but the media focuses on how vehicles have gotten faster—so people call their car dealer (oops, vehicle dealer) to ask when faster models will be available. Meanwhile, fraudsters have capitalized on the fact that consumers don’t know what to believe when it comes to vehicle technology, so scams are rampant in the vehicle sector.
Now replace the word “vehicle” with “artificial intelligence,” and we have a pretty good description of the world we live in.
Artificial intelligence, AI for short, is an umbrella term for a set of loosely related technologies. ChatGPT has little in common with, say, software that banks use to evaluate loan applicants. Both are referred to as AI, but in all the ways that matter—how they work, what they’re used for and by whom, and how they fail—they couldn’t be more different.”
― AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference
Now replace the word “vehicle” with “artificial intelligence,” and we have a pretty good description of the world we live in.
Artificial intelligence, AI for short, is an umbrella term for a set of loosely related technologies. ChatGPT has little in common with, say, software that banks use to evaluate loan applicants. Both are referred to as AI, but in all the ways that matter—how they work, what they’re used for and by whom, and how they fail—they couldn’t be more different.”
― AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can't, and How to Tell the Difference
