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This is a proposed list for becoming a Software Engineer through books, highly biased towards first principles thinking.
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Computer Organization & Design: The Hardware/Software Interface
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Essential Software Development
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The C Programming Language
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How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Programming and Computing
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The C++ Programming Language
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The Practice of Programming (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)
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Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp
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Computer Networks
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Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
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Modern Operating Systems
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Operating System Concepts
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Introduction to the Theory of Computation
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Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation
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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
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Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science
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Grokking Algorithms An Illustrated Guide For Programmers and Other Curious People
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Aditya Y. Bhargava (Goodreads Author)
4.42 avg rating — 5,205 ratings
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Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms
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The Algorithm Design Manual
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Steven S. Skiena (Goodreads Author)
4.34 avg rating — 2,671 ratings
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Algorithms
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Introduction to Algorithms
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
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Andy Hunt (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 23,635 ratings
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Cracking the Coding Interview: 189 Programming Questions and Solutions
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Gayle Laakmann McDowell (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 6,888 ratings
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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
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4.36 avg rating — 23,087 ratings
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Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
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Steve McConnell (Goodreads Author)
4.30 avg rating — 9,441 ratings
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Brain-Computer Interfacing: An Introduction
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4.15 avg rating — 46 ratings
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Brain-Computer Interfaces: Principles and Practice
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4.16 avg rating — 19 ratings
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The Emperor's New Mind
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Interaction Design: Beyond Human-Computer Interaction
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3.71 avg rating — 792 ratings
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Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment
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The UNIX Programming Environment
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Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach
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Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction
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4.54 avg rating — 797 ratings
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Linear Algebra and Learning from Data
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4.36 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Deep Learning
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The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction
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4.43 avg rating — 1,874 ratings
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Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning
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4.32 avg rating — 1,889 ratings
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Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Pearson Series in Artifical Intelligence)
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4.20 avg rating — 4,400 ratings
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list created September 28th, 2020
by Omar Olivares Urrutia (votes) .
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