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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.47 — 4,845 ratings — published 1984
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as informatics)
avg rating 4.33 — 23,939 ratings — published 1999
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 23,354 ratings — published 2007
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 17,064 ratings — published 2011
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 — 10,524 ratings — published 1999
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as informatics)
avg rating 4.12 — 34,790 ratings — published 2016
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 15,026 ratings — published 1975
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 11,930 ratings — published 1994
Thinking in Java (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,213 ratings — published 1998
Introduction to Algorithms (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 — 9,297 ratings — published 1989
The C Programming Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 11,299 ratings — published 1978
Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,130 ratings — published 2002
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 8,832 ratings — published 1999
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 — 6,442 ratings — published 2015
Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine (Health Informatics)
by (shelved 3 times as informatics)
avg rating 3.83 — 70 ratings — published 2006
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 20,881 ratings — published 2014
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 — 8,646 ratings — published 1983
The Algorithm Design Manual (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 2,682 ratings — published 1997
The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 1,227 ratings — published 2007
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 9,476 ratings — published 1993
Effective Java (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.51 — 8,058 ratings — published 2001
Algorithms (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,824 ratings — published 1983
Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech Recognition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as informatics)
avg rating 4.29 — 642 ratings — published 2000
The Hacker Ethic: A Radical Approach to the Philosophy of Business (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as informatics)
avg rating 3.75 — 777 ratings — published 1999
An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R (Springer Texts in Statistics)
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avg rating 4.59 — 2,328 ratings — published 2013
Purely Functional Data Structures (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 669 ratings — published 1996
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 5,796 ratings — published 2003
Designing Data-Intensive Applications (ebook)
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avg rating 4.70 — 10,460 ratings — published 2015
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 5,509 ratings — published 2021
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 11,728 ratings — published 2018
Mastering JavaScript Design Patterns (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 33 ratings — published 2014
Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as informatics)
avg rating 4.33 — 6,906 ratings — published 2008
Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters (ebook)
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avg rating 4.26 — 2,865 ratings — published 2019
Java Concurrency in Practice (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.48 — 2,900 ratings — published 2005
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 2,231 ratings — published 2000
Computer Organization & Design: The Hardware/Software Interface (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 1,696 ratings — published 1993
Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge: . (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.41 — 39 ratings — published 2011
Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards of Practice (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.63 — 41 ratings — published 2007
Permanent Record (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 57,657 ratings — published 2019
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 29,915 ratings — published 2016
Operating System Concepts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,197 ratings — published 1985
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 904 ratings — published 1999
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Audio CD)
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avg rating 4.00 — 27,381 ratings — published 2017
Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition: Volume 1: Foundations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 63 ratings — published 1986
C++ Primer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 993 ratings — published 1989
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 — 2,135 ratings — published 1993
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 9,902 ratings — published 1987
Interactive Data Visualization for the Web: An Introduction to Designing with D3 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 535 ratings — published 2013
JavaScript: The Good Parts (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 — 8,661 ratings — published 2008
Head First JavaScript (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 388 ratings — published 2007
“Freud described three great historical wounds to the primary narcissism of the self-centered human subject, who tries to hold panic at bay by the fantasy of human exceptionalism.
First is the Copernican wound that removed Earth itself, man’s home world, from the center of the cosmos and indeed paved the way for that cosmos to burst open into a universe of inhumane, nonteleological times and spaces. Science made that decentering cut.
The second wound is the Darwinian, which put Homo sapiens firmly in the world of other critters, all trying to make an earthly living and so evolving in relation to one another without the sureties of directional signposts that culminate in Man. Science inflicted that cruel cut too.
The third wound is the Freudian, which posited an unconscious that undid the primacy of conscious processes, including the reason that comforted Man with his unique excellence, with dire consequences for teleology once again. Science seems to hold that blade too.
I want to add a fourth wound, the informatic or cyborgian, which infolds organic and technological flesh and so melds that Great Divide as well.”
― When Species Meet
First is the Copernican wound that removed Earth itself, man’s home world, from the center of the cosmos and indeed paved the way for that cosmos to burst open into a universe of inhumane, nonteleological times and spaces. Science made that decentering cut.
The second wound is the Darwinian, which put Homo sapiens firmly in the world of other critters, all trying to make an earthly living and so evolving in relation to one another without the sureties of directional signposts that culminate in Man. Science inflicted that cruel cut too.
The third wound is the Freudian, which posited an unconscious that undid the primacy of conscious processes, including the reason that comforted Man with his unique excellence, with dire consequences for teleology once again. Science seems to hold that blade too.
I want to add a fourth wound, the informatic or cyborgian, which infolds organic and technological flesh and so melds that Great Divide as well.”
― When Species Meet
“Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data - i.e. the already given) and in no sense a new vision. With that science, we are entering an era of exhaustivity, which is also an era of exhaustion. Of generalized interactivity abolishing particularized action. Of the interface which abolishes challenge, passion, and rivalry between peoples, ideas and individuals which was always the source of the finest energies.
It is difficult to find a remedy for our own sadness, because we are ourselves implicated in it. It is difficult to find a remedy for other people's sadness because we are prisoners of it.”
― Cool Memories
It is difficult to find a remedy for our own sadness, because we are ourselves implicated in it. It is difficult to find a remedy for other people's sadness because we are prisoners of it.”
― Cool Memories
