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The C Programming Language (2nd Edition)
by Brian W. Kernighan (shelved 15 times as computers)
avg rating 4.38 — 507 ratings — published 1978

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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage (Paperback)
by Clifford Stoll (shelved 11 times as computers)
avg rating 4.13 — 564 ratings — published 1989

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Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide (Pragmatic Programmers)
by Dave Thomas (shelved 9 times as computers)
avg rating 3.89 — 317 ratings — published 2005

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Programming Perl (3rd Edition)
by Larry Wall (shelved 9 times as computers)
avg rating 4.19 — 310 ratings — published 1991

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In the Beginning...was the Command Line (Paperback)
by Neal Stephenson (shelved 8 times as computers)
avg rating 3.74 — 1,626 ratings — published 1999

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Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition (Paperback)
by Dave Thomas (shelved 8 times as computers)
avg rating 4.06 — 319 ratings — published 2004

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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, 20th Anniversary Edition (Paperback)
by Frederick Phillips Brooks (shelved 7 times as computers)
avg rating 4.00 — 859 ratings — published 1975

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The Age of Spiritual Machines: When Computers Exceed Human Intelligence (Trade Paperback)
by Ray Kurzweil (shelved 7 times as computers)
avg rating 3.99 — 788 ratings — published 1999

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Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software (Hardcover)
by Scott Rosenberg (shelved 7 times as computers)
avg rating 3.55 — 474 ratings — published 2007

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Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (2nd Edition)
by Steve Krug (shelved 6 times as computers)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,479 ratings — published 2000

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Cathedral and the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (Paperback)
by Eric S. Raymond (shelved 6 times as computers)
avg rating 3.80 — 328 ratings — published 1999

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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by Simon Singh (shelved 6 times as computers)
avg rating 4.18 — 1,548 ratings — published 1999

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The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web (Voices That Matter)
by Dave Shea (shelved 6 times as computers)
avg rating 3.94 — 283 ratings — published 2005

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The Road Ahead (Hardcover)
by Bill Gates (shelved 6 times as computers)
avg rating 3.18 — 296 ratings — published 1995

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Hackers and Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age (Hardcover)
by Paul Graham (shelved 6 times as computers)
avg rating 4.08 — 412 ratings — published 2004

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Code Complete, Second Edition (Paperback)
by Steve McConnell (shelved 6 times as computers)
avg rating 4.30 — 585 ratings — published 1993

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Learning Perl, Fourth Edition (Paperback)
by Randal L. Schwartz (shelved 6 times as computers)
avg rating 3.87 — 151 ratings — published 1993

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The Soul of a New Machine (Paperback)
by Tracy Kidder (shelved 6 times as computers)
avg rating 3.92 — 761 ratings — published 1981

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Learning Python, Second Edition (Paperback)
by Mark Lutz (shelved 5 times as computers)
avg rating 3.81 — 170 ratings — published 1999

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The Google Story: Inside the Hottest Business, Media, and Technology Success of Our Time (Paperback)
by David A. Vise (shelved 5 times as computers)
avg rating 3.61 — 1,047 ratings — published 2005

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The C++ Programming Language (Special 3rd Edition)
by Bjarne Stroustrup (shelved 5 times as computers)
avg rating 3.89 — 195 ratings — published 1986

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Operating System Concepts (Hardcover)
by Abraham Silberschatz (shelved 5 times as computers)
avg rating 3.40 — 84 ratings — published 1985

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The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture (Hardcover)
by John Battelle (shelved 5 times as computers)
avg rating 3.67 — 558 ratings — published 2005

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Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity (Paperback)
by Joel Spolsky (shelved 5 times as computers)
avg rating 4.11 — 314 ratings — published 2004

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Digital Fortress (Paperback)
by Dan Brown (shelved 4 times as computers)
avg rating 3.26 — 26,633 ratings — published 1998

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Free Culture: The Nature and Future of Creativity (Paperback)
by Lawrence Lessig (shelved 4 times as computers)
avg rating 4.17 — 884 ratings — published 2004

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Being Digital (Paperback)
by Nicholas Negroponte (shelved 4 times as computers)
avg rating 3.69 — 194 ratings — published 1995

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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Paperback)
by Steven Levy (Goodreads author) (shelved 4 times as computers)
avg rating 4.15 — 317 ratings — published 1984

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Society of Mind (Paperback)
by Marvin Lee Minsky (shelved 4 times as computers)
avg rating 4.18 — 263 ratings — published 1987

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Effective C++: 55 Specific Ways to Improve Your Programs and Designs (3rd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
by Scott Meyers (shelved 4 times as computers)
avg rating 4.48 — 154 ratings — published 1991

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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (2nd Edition)
by Stuart J. Russell (shelved 4 times as computers)
avg rating 3.90 — 217 ratings — published 1995

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Lifehacker: 88 Tech Tricks to Turbocharge Your Day (Paperback)
by Gina Trapani (shelved 4 times as computers)
avg rating 3.79 — 179 ratings — published 2006

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Designing Web Usability : The Practice of Simplicity (Paperback)
by Jakob Nielsen (shelved 4 times as computers)
avg rating 3.61 — 280 ratings — published 1999

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Peopleware : Productive Projects and Teams, 2nd Ed. (Paperback)
by Tom DeMarco (shelved 4 times as computers)
avg rating 4.34 — 428 ratings — published 1988

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The Best Software Writing I: Selected and Introduced by Joel Spolsky (Paperback)
by Joel Spolsky (shelved 4 times as computers)
avg rating 3.79 — 166 ratings — published 2005

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The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (Popular Science)
by Roger Penrose (shelved 4 times as computers)
avg rating 3.69 — 424 ratings — published 1989

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HTML, XHTML, and CSS, Sixth Edition (Visual Quickstart Guide)
by Elizabeth Castro (shelved 4 times as computers)
avg rating 3.86 — 154 ratings — published 2002

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iWoz: From Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It (Hardcover)
by Steve Wozniak (shelved 4 times as computers)
avg rating 3.49 — 528 ratings — published 2006

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Designing with Web Standards (Paperback)
by Jeffrey Zeldman (Goodreads author) (shelved 4 times as computers)
avg rating 4.19 — 234 ratings — published 2003

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Linked: How Everything Is Connected to Everything Else and What It Means (Paperback)
by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi (shelved 4 times as computers)
avg rating 3.78 — 629 ratings — published 2002

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Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft (Hardcover)
by G. Pascal Zachary (shelved 3 times as computers)
avg rating 4.33 — 60 ratings — published 1994

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Little Brother (Hardcover)
by Cory Doctorow (shelved 3 times as computers)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,547 ratings — published 2008

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The Dreams of Reason: The Computer and the Rise of the Sciences of Complexity (Paperback)
by Heinz R. Pagels (shelved 3 times as computers)
avg rating 4.00 — 28 ratings — published 1988

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UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language, Third Edition (Paperback)
by Martin Fowler (shelved 3 times as computers)
avg rating 3.71 — 124 ratings — published 1999

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Mac OS X Tiger: Missing Manual (Paperback)
by David Pogue (shelved 3 times as computers)
avg rating 3.96 — 50 ratings — published 2001

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On Intelligence (Paperback)
by Jeff Hawkins (shelved 3 times as computers)
avg rating 4.14 — 633 ratings — published 2004

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Introduction to Algorithms, Second Edition (Hardcover)
by Thomas H. Cormen (shelved 3 times as computers)
avg rating 4.22 — 319 ratings — published 1990

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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Paperback)
by Andrew Hunt (shelved 3 times as computers)
avg rating 4.37 — 771 ratings — published 1999

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The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier (Mass Market Paperback)
by Bruce Sterling (shelved 3 times as computers)
avg rating 3.83 — 404 ratings — published 1992

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The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security (Paperback)
by Kevin D. Mitnick (shelved 3 times as computers)
avg rating 3.75 — 508 ratings — published 2002

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