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…
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- Code Complete
- The Art of Unix Programming
- The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
- Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
- Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
- The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
- Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
- Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
- Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground
- Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future
- The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery
- The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security
- The Difference Between God and Larry Ellison: Inside Oracle Corporation
- The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail