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Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future

John MacCormick

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cenny
The three books that I have appreciated the most when it comes to computer science must be: - Code The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (https://www.programmingbooks.dev/#code) - Grokking Algorithms (https://www.programmingbooks.dev/#grokking-algorithms) - The Little Schemer (https://www.programmingbooks.dev/#the-little-schemer) These two books I really found interesting as well: - Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future (https://www.programmingbooks.dev/extra/#nine-algorithms-that... (https://www.programmingbooks.dev/extra/#nine-algorithms-that-changed-the-future)) - Good Math (https://www.programmingbooks.dev/extra/#good-math)
mitchelldeacon9
The following is a list of my favorite books on software engineering, cyber-security, and the history of IT business development. Bowden, Mark (2011) Worm: The First Digital World War Brooks, Frederick (1995) Mythical Man-Month, 2nd ed. Christensen, Clayton (1997) Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail Hafner, Katie and Matthew Lyon (1996) Where Wizards Stay Up Late: Origins of the Internet Hunt, Andrew and David Thomas (1999) Pragmatic Programmer MacCormick, John (2012) Nine Algorithms that Changed the Future McConnell, Steve (2004) Code Complete, 2nd ed. Mitnick, Kevin and William Simon (2002) Art of Deception Poulsen, Kevin (2011) Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cyber-Crime Underworld Raymond, Eric (2003) Art of Unix Programming Stone, Brad (2013) The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon Torvalds, Linus and David Diamond (2001) Just for Fun: Story of an Accidental Revolutionary Wallace, James and Jim Erickson (1992) Hard Drive: Bill Gates and Making of the Microsoft Empire Williams, Sam (2002) Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software…