rramadass

when i first read SICP years ago

I have about half a dozen translations of the Meditations and i suggest the following;

the very good book "Designing Data-Intensive Applications: The Big Ideas Behind Reliable, Scalable, and Maintainable Systems"

books like a) Code by Charles Petzold

"Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software" should be read by everybody to understand how Computers really work.

Pair the above with Petzold's "Code"

"Fooled by Randomness" and "The Black Swan"

"Fooled by Randomness" and "The Black Swan"

"The Annotated Turing" is a great book.

Agreed, he/she really needs to take a look at this book

Mathematics: Its Content, Methods and Meaning by Kolmogorov et al. - A broad but concise presentation of a lot of mathematics.

Robin Hard also has a translation of Epictetus' Discourses/Enchiridion/Fragments and Sayings and Anecdotes of Diogenes in the same Oxford series, both of which are also excellent.

The data structures/algorithms given in Hanson's book are "industrial strength"

The Sherlock Holmes canonical stories