Dan Sugalski wrote:
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> The Mythical Man-Month
> Fred Brooks
That reminds me: I highly recommended "Anti-Patterns":
www.antipatterns.com/briefing
> Understanding Comics
> Scott McCloud
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> Tao Te Ching
> Lao Tzu (translation by Ursula LeGuin)
>
> Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
> Lewis Carroll
Well, if we're going for balance, I'd suggest "The Runaway Universe",
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0738200689
An excellent overview of modern cosmology for the layman.
It's also one of the few recent enough to cover in detail the
revolution of the last year or two, in which the expansion of
the universe is shown to be accelerating. That is, the infamous
cosmological constant -- Einstein's "greatest blunder" -- is
NOT, as had long been assumed, zero.
> Introduction to Algorithms
> Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, and Ronald L. Rivest
This is probably the best algorithms book on the market; it is
encyclopedic. More up-to-date than Knuth, and also much easier
to comprehend for most people.
> Internetworking with TCP/IP vol 1 4th edition
> Douglas E. Comper
(that's "Comer", btw.) The whole series is good -- Volumns I-II-III,
and "The Internet Message: Closing the Book with Electronic Mail", by
Marshall T. Rose.
I personally can't resist the urge to throw all the CS classics
in there, particularly "The Structure and Interpretation of Computer
Programs"; also "Design Patterns" (the "Gang of Four" book).
--
John Porter
By pressing down a special key It plays a little melody
