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Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
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4.13 avg rating — 2,471 ratings
"A great history of how Xerox PARC's facility and how it relates to personal computing"
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Revolution in The Valley: The Insanely Great Story of How the Mac Was Made
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4.22 avg rating — 2,421 ratings
"A great history of how the Mac was born, and how it relates to personal computing"
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
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4.12 avg rating — 39,814 ratings
"A comprehensive history of how the personal computer & our current digital age got to be the way it currently is"
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Practical Object Oriented Design in Ruby
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4.53 avg rating — 2,816 ratings
"Good way to learn Object-oriented programming, taught in Ruby"
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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
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4.01 avg rating — 15,073 ratings
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
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4.33 avg rating — 24,061 ratings
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
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4.24 avg rating — 8,844 ratings
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The Success of Open Source
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3.90 avg rating — 146 ratings
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The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary
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3.83 avg rating — 4,313 ratings
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Old New Thing, The: Practical Development Throughout the Evolution of Windows
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3.96 avg rating — 243 ratings
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Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System
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4.06 avg rating — 816 ratings
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Digital Apollo: Human and Machine in Spaceflight
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4.29 avg rating — 663 ratings
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Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
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3.94 avg rating — 4,926 ratings
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The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
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4.14 avg rating — 77,504 ratings
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Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
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4.12 avg rating — 2,003 ratings
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
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4.21 avg rating — 8,875 ratings
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