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Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as computing)
avg rating 4.40 — 10,467 ratings — published 1999
The C Programming Language (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as computing)
avg rating 4.44 — 11,255 ratings — published 1978
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as computing)
avg rating 4.33 — 23,821 ratings — published 1999
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as computing)
avg rating 4.47 — 4,839 ratings — published 1984
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as computing)
avg rating 4.01 — 14,998 ratings — published 1975
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as computing)
avg rating 4.36 — 23,263 ratings — published 2007
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as computing)
avg rating 4.20 — 11,892 ratings — published 1994
Introduction to Algorithms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as computing)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,276 ratings — published 1989
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as computing)
avg rating 4.30 — 9,465 ratings — published 1993
The Soul of a New Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as computing)
avg rating 4.12 — 9,375 ratings — published 1981
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as computing)
avg rating 4.24 — 8,806 ratings — published 1999
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as computing)
avg rating 4.16 — 8,534 ratings — published 1984
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as computing)
avg rating 4.28 — 15,642 ratings — published 1989
The Little Schemer (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as computing)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,980 ratings — published 1974
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as computing)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,423 ratings — published 1994
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as computing)
avg rating 4.29 — 52,139 ratings — published 1979
The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as computing)
avg rating 4.30 — 28,764 ratings — published 1999
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (ebook)
by (shelved 40 times as computing)
avg rating 4.70 — 10,308 ratings — published 2015
The Elements Of Computing Systems: Building A Modern Computer From First Principles (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as computing)
avg rating 4.54 — 946 ratings — published 2005
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as computing)
avg rating 4.13 — 34,595 ratings — published 2016
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as computing)
avg rating 3.94 — 4,893 ratings — published 1996
Programming Pearls (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as computing)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,216 ratings — published 1986
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as computing)
avg rating 4.10 — 3,018 ratings — published 1986
The C++ Programming Language (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as computing)
avg rating 4.10 — 4,023 ratings — published 1986
The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as computing)
avg rating 4.26 — 49,530 ratings — published 2013
The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as computing)
avg rating 3.83 — 4,295 ratings — published 1999
Introduction to the Theory of Computation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as computing)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,102 ratings — published 1996
Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as computing)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,354 ratings — published 2009
Don't Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (Voices That Matter)
by (shelved 32 times as computing)
avg rating 4.24 — 30,544 ratings — published 2000
Effective Java (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as computing)
avg rating 4.51 — 8,048 ratings — published 2001
Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe (ebook)
by (shelved 31 times as computing)
avg rating 3.60 — 4,694 ratings — published 2012
JavaScript: The Good Parts (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as computing)
avg rating 4.23 — 8,659 ratings — published 2008
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as computing)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,775 ratings — published 2003
The Clean Coder: A Code of Conduct for Professional Programmers (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as computing)
avg rating 4.26 — 9,212 ratings — published 2011
The Art of Computer Programming, Volume 1: Fundamental Algorithms (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as computing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,885 ratings — published 1973
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as computing)
avg rating 4.12 — 39,535 ratings — published 2011
The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as computing)
avg rating 4.55 — 1,590 ratings — published 2001
The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as computing)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,165 ratings — published 2008
A Philosophy of Software Design (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as computing)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,325 ratings — published 2018
Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as computing)
avg rating 4.14 — 4,664 ratings — published 2004
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as computing)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,546 ratings — published 2004
The Algorithm Design Manual (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as computing)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,680 ratings — published 1997
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as computing)
avg rating 4.04 — 17,006 ratings — published 2011
Clean Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as computing)
avg rating 4.22 — 6,973 ratings — published 2017
Computer Networks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as computing)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,402 ratings — published 1981
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as computing)
avg rating 4.07 — 3,389 ratings — published 1996
Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as computing)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,160 ratings — published 2014
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as computing)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,875 ratings — published 2002
In the Beginning...Was the Command Line (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 24 times as computing)
avg rating 3.81 — 8,082 ratings — published 1999
Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as computing)
avg rating 3.97 — 27,210 ratings — published 2011
“Today's mainstream researchers do not dive directly into deep existential currents. They are more likely to take a series of small incremental steps. The fear is that the deeper they go, the more it is possible to lose touch, only to discover reality is a shared delusion.”
― Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
― Pataphysics: Mastering Time Line Jumps for Personal Transformation
“The real problem is that programmers have spent far too much time worrying about efficiency in the wrong places and at the wrong times; premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming.”
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