The New Turing Omnibus
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The New Turing Omnibus
A. K. Dewdney
7 people recommended it in 6 threads, 2011–2023.
What people on Hacker News said
The New Turning Omnibus, and Programming Pearls (not Perl but Pearls by Jon Bentley). Or, books that are written in problem-hint-solution style, such as The Little Book of Semaphores and To Mock a Mockingbird. These are so fun and easy to read.
A really fun read is The New Turing Omnibus. I'd call it fun reading rather than required reading. Basically, it's a collection of small fun loosely related chapters about various ideas in computer science.
It's the kind of book where you can open it up in the middle and start reading. Over the years, I must have purchased 5 or 6 copies because I keep giving them away.
In fact, I'd recommend this book first, for it gives self-taught programmers a taste of nearly everything in computer science (and thus equips them to know which branch they'd like to pursue next).
The New Turing Omnibus is a nice collection of small domain problems that can be solved with computation.
Where it comes up
- Ask HN: Which book are you reading these days? 2015 · 2 recommendations
- Ask HN: Books that teach programming by building a series of small projects? 2023 · 1 recommendation
- Books that changed my career as a software engineer 2021 · 1 recommendation
- Ask HN: What are the most fundamental books on computer science? 2019 · 1 recommendation
- Ask HN: What language-agnostic programming books should I read? 2017 · 1 recommendation
- Must Read CS Books For Self Self-Taught Programmers 2011 · 1 recommendation