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Professor Science: Mar 8, 2006; diplodocus + mortarboard = party

Avenging Dentist posted:

If you want some "deep" theory, check out Knuth's "Art of Computer Programming" series (be warned, they are very, very math-heavy).

Oh that series that people have on their bookshelf so they can be like, "Oh, yes, I've read the Art of Computer Programming, yessssss, I am smoking a pipe now?"

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Professor Science: Mar 8, 2006; diplodocus + mortarboard = party

Oh, I guess if we're going to talk about algorithms books we should talk about CLRS. Probably the Dragon Book for compilers, Dinosaur Book for high-level OS concepts, Russell and Norvig for AI, Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective for an intro to systems programming...

# ¿ Feb 25, 2008 04:07

Professor Science: Mar 8, 2006; diplodocus + mortarboard = party

more falafel please posted:

I didn't like the dinosaur book, Tenenbaum was much better.

Also, I would suggest Stevens - Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment.

isn't tenenbaum basically a source walkthrough of minix, though? that seems kind of silly.

# ¿ Feb 25, 2008 08:05

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