Revolution in the Valley

There’s a ton of great suggestions here. Here are a couple I haven’t seen mentioned. Documentaries: - Silicon Cowboys - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4938484/ It covers the creation of Compaq - American Experience: Silicon Velley - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/silicon/ About how Silicon Valley came to be. - Naughty Dog 30th Anniversary - https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=cdr7THH0zo8 Kind of a PR video, but interesting and free. Covers the history of Naughty Dog games. Books: - Cukoo’s Egg - https://www.amazon.com/Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Computer-Espiona... (https://www.amazon.com/Cuckoos-Egg-Tracking-Computer-Espionage/dp/1416507787) Has some interesting technical detail, and gives perspective on a very different time on the internet. - Revolution in the Valley - https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Valley-Insanely-Great-Stor... (https://www.amazon.com/Revolution-Valley-Insanely-Great-Story/dp/1449316247) You can read these stories on folklore.org, but I enjoyed the collected book. Covers the creation of the Macintosh.

In general, "Revolution in the Valley" about the making of the Macintosh. You cen feel the excitement of the team, and it goes into some fun technical details on how they created a GUI while everyone else outside research labs was still text-based. For game programmers, "Masters of Doom" and "Dungeons and Dreamers". Both have a real human perspective on the people and companies they cover; they made me feel like regular humans, not gods, made games.

Off the top of my head: - Soul of a New Machine - The Cuckoo's Egg - Revolution in the Valley - Fire in the Valley - Compilers by Sethi, Ullman, Aho - Masters of Doom - iWoz - Steve Jobs & the NeXT Big Thing - Crypto - Code - The Man Who Loved Only Numbers - The Man Who Knew Infinity - ANSI Common LISP Most of the books above are recommended because once reading them you will have an uncontrollable urge to immediately create something brilliant. You will not be able to stop yourself. -m