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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
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Walter Isaacson (Goodreads Author)
4.12 avg rating — 39,513 ratings
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Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
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Katie Hafner (Goodreads Author)
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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
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The Essentials of Modern Software Engineering
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Essential Software Development
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Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made
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Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
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Andy Hunt (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 23,796 ratings
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
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The Success of Open Source
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The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
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Old New Thing, The: Practical Development Throughout the Evolution of Windows
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Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System
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Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight
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David A. Mindell (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 658 ratings
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
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Brad Stone (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 76,987 ratings
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Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
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Jon Gertner (Goodreads Author)
4.20 avg rating — 8,722 ratings
score: 85,
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