Ask HN: Computer Science/History Books? ↗
The books people recommended
2020-03-26 · 331 points · 154 comments · 74 books named by at least one person here and at least 3 people overall. The number on the left is how many people named it in this thread.
- 13The Dream Machine
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- 7Turing's Cathedral
- 7Unix: A History and a Memoir
- 6Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
- 6The Innovators
- 5
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- 4Where Wizards Stay Up Late
- 4Fire in the Valley
- 3The Idea Factory
- 3Racing the Beam
- 3The Jargon File
The Jargon File
3 here · 6 all-time · #1224 overall
- 3What the Dormouse Said
- 3The Friendly Orange Glow
- 3A History of Modern Computing
- 2
- 2The Goal
- 2
- 2The Cuckoo's Egg
- 2
- 2The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
- 2The Master Switch
- 2Dealers of Lightning
- 2The Cathedral and the Bazaar
- 2The Road Ahead
- 2Revolution in the Valley
- 2Crypto
- 2The Design and Evolution of C++
- 2Free as in Freedom
- 2How the Internet Happened
- 2The Intel Trinity
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Introduction to Algorithms
Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein
1 here · 71 all-time · #47 overall
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- 1The Code Book
- 1Coders at Work
- 1The Annotated Turing
- 1
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- 1Mindstorms
- 1The Art of Unix Programming
- 1Computer Architecture
- 1Worm
- 1Becoming Steve Jobs
- 1Logicomix
- 1Dreaming in Code
- 1The Everything Store
- 1In the Plex
- 1Hard Drive
- 1Writing Efficient Programs
- 1Just for Fun
- 1The Attention Merchants
- 1Computer Lib/Dream Machines
- 1Colossus
- 1Art of Deception
- 1Microserfs
- 1The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage
- 1Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
- 1Underground
- 1Accidental Empires
- 1Making Software
- 1In the Beginning was the Command Line
- 1Sunburst and Luminary: An Apollo Memoir
- 1The Chip
- 1A Mind at Play
- 1Beautiful Code
- 1Masters of Deception
- 1The Second Coming of Steve Jobs
- 1Programmers at Work