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A list of books related to topics on computer science which are good to read.
Inspired by replies to tweet by Vaidehi Joshi (https://twitter.com/vaidehijoshi/stat...)
Inspired by replies to tweet by Vaidehi Joshi (https://twitter.com/vaidehijoshi/stat...)
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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
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Steven Levy (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 8,544 ratings
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The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
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4.28 avg rating — 15,691 ratings
score: 270,
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The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
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4.30 avg rating — 28,785 ratings
score: 198,
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The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
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James Gleick (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 17,016 ratings
score: 195,
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The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
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Sydney Padua (Goodreads Author)
4.02 avg rating — 4,918 ratings
score: 193,
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Insanely Great: The Life and Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything
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Steven Levy (Goodreads Author)
3.98 avg rating — 1,278 ratings
score: 188,
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Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
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Katie Hafner (Goodreads Author)
3.94 avg rating — 4,901 ratings
score: 187,
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Fire in the Valley: The Making of The Personal Computer
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Paul Freiberger (Goodreads Author)
4.17 avg rating — 1,346 ratings
score: 184,
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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 — 8,764 ratings
score: 183,
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The Soul of a New Machine
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4.12 avg rating — 9,387 ratings
score: 182,
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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 — 39,583 ratings
score: 179,
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The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
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4.27 avg rating — 1,167 ratings
score: 155,
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OOP Concepts Booster : Take Your Coding Skills to the Next Level
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3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
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4.40 avg rating — 10,477 ratings
score: 99,
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Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology
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Howard Rheingold (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 122 ratings
score: 96,
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Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe
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3.60 avg rating — 4,698 ratings
score: 93,
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Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date
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4.03 avg rating — 1,973 ratings
score: 91,
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Quantum Computing since Democritus
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4.16 avg rating — 1,063 ratings
score: 91,
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Out of their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists
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3.86 avg rating — 190 ratings
score: 90,
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Grace Hopper and the Invention of the Information Age
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3.77 avg rating — 308 ratings
score: 89,
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The Golden Ticket: P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible
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3.59 avg rating — 500 ratings
score: 89,
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From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism
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3.98 avg rating — 674 ratings
score: 88,
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Distributed Algorithms: An Intuitive Approach
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3.80 avg rating — 49 ratings
score: 88,
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Feynman Lectures On Computation
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4.25 avg rating — 475 ratings
score: 87,
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Memory Machines: The Evolution of Hypertext
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4.32 avg rating — 40 ratings
score: 86,
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Algorithms Unlocked
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4.16 avg rating — 431 ratings
score: 86,
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Engines of Logic: Mathematicians & the Origin of the Computer
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4.11 avg rating — 503 ratings
score: 85,
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Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science
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4.34 avg rating — 1,862 ratings
score: 85,
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Idea Makers: Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People
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Stephen Wolfram (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 508 ratings
score: 84,
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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
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4.13 avg rating — 2,457 ratings
score: 82,
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The Dream Machine
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4.55 avg rating — 1,594 ratings
score: 82,
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What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry
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3.82 avg rating — 1,147 ratings
score: 81,
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On the Way to the Web: The Secret History of the Internet and Its Founders
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3.53 avg rating — 36 ratings
score: 80,
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Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Cyberspace
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Douglas Rushkoff (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 440 ratings
score: 79,
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Virtual Reality: The Revolutionary Technology of Computer-Generated Artificial Worlds - and How It Promises to Transform Society
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Howard Rheingold (Goodreads Author)
3.78 avg rating — 138 ratings
score: 78,
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The Universal Computer: The Road from Leibniz to Turing
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4.11 avg rating — 503 ratings
score: 77,
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Understanding the Digital World: What You Need to Know about Computers, the Internet, Privacy, and Security
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4.23 avg rating — 183 ratings
score: 76,
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The Art of Computer Programming, Volumes 1-3 Boxed Set
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4.49 avg rating — 771 ratings
score: 75,
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Go To: The Story of the Math Majors, Bridge Players, Engineers, Chess Wizards, Maverick Scientists, and Iconoclasts-- the Programmers Who Created the Software Revolution
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3.71 avg rating — 154 ratings
score: 74,
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The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
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4.55 avg rating — 1,594 ratings
score: 71,
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Portraits in Silicon
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3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 70,
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Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software
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3.71 avg rating — 3,100 ratings
score: 69,
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Head First Design Patterns
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4.30 avg rating — 8,991 ratings
score: 68,
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Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
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4.20 avg rating — 11,907 ratings
score: 67,
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Learning Javascript Design Patterns
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Addy Osmani (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 542 ratings
score: 66,
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Responsive Design: Patterns & Principles
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Ethan Marcotte (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 139 ratings
score: 65,
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