In article <7xocssvzrh....@ruckus.brouhaha.com>, Paul Rubin <http://phr...@nospam.invalid> wrote: >koranthala <koranth...@gmail.com> writes: >> Which are the classic books in computer science which one should >> peruse? >> I have (a) Code Complete (b) GOF (c) Art of programming. >> >> Art of programming was too tough for me - and I couldnt understand >> much. The other two were good books - I understood and implemented >> quite a bit from both. >> What are the other books which I should peruse? > >Code Complete and GOF are software engineering books but not really >CS books. TAOCP is a CS book but a bit old fashioned. Other classics: > >Introduction to Algorithms by Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, >Ronald L. Rivest, and Clifford Stein.
Thanks. I lost that title a while ago, must buy. Also "Numerical Recipe's in FORTRAN/Pascal/C" (Have they done Python yet?) > >Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson >and Gerald Jay Sussman (online at mitpress.mit.edu/sicp) Groetjes Albert -- -- Albert van der Horst, UTRECHT,THE NETHERLANDS Economic growth -- being exponential -- ultimately falters. alb...@spe&ar&c.xs4all.nl &=n http://home.hccnet.nl/a.w.m.van.der.horst -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list