Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach is a great read!
Ask HN: What's the best computer science book you've read recently?
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#92Internetworking with TCP/IP by Dr. Douglas Comer.
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#93Structured Parallel Programming: Patterns for Efficient Computation by von Michael McCool, James Reinders, Arch D. Robison
It introduces some important parallel patters, explains what makes them tick and how to make them efficient. The book makes a strong case for using parallel frameworks, namely TBB and Cilk+ to create general and portable solutions.
There's also a set of slide available, - http://ipcc.cs.uoregon.edu/curriculum.html
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#94The Mythical Man-Month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month It was written 40 years ago, but it is still relevant to today. Its so important to think about how to build effective engineering teams.
One of the most important books ever written on software engineering practice. Author Frederick Brooks won the Turing Award for this book and for his work on IBM's System/360 (the main example project used in the book).
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#95More about programming than computer science, but it does talk a lot about and show some custom algorithms (it's more about programming-in-the-small, though it does talk about some big picture too), also it is old and out of print (last I checked), but I thought it was really good when I bought and read it, so mentioning it: Writing Efficient Programs Also has a great bunch of "war stories" about performance tuning i…
It seems an earlier related draft (s/Programs/Code) is available at http://repository.cmu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3435&c...
Cool, thanks. Will check it out.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best computer science book you've read recently?
#96More about programming than computer science, but it does talk a lot about and show some custom algorithms (it's more about programming-in-the-small, though it does talk about some big picture too), also it is old and out of print (last I checked), but I thought it was really good when I bought and read it, so mentioning it: Writing Efficient Programs Also has a great bunch of "war stories" about performance tuning i…
Despite its age, I think it is still very worthwhile, just like Programming Pearls .
Yes, and the same goes for More Programming Pearls - all 3 by Bentley (for those who don't know).
Re: Ask HN: What's the best computer science book you've read recently?
#97Understanding Computation: From Simple Machines to Impossible Programs by Tom Stuart
https://www.amazon.co.uk/Understanding-Computation-Machines-...
Not finished it yet, but it's a joy to read and explains fundamental concepts of things like parsers, interpreters and Lambda Calculus using minimal Ruby syntax.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best computer science book you've read recently?
#98The Mythical Man-Month. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month It was written 40 years ago, but it is still relevant to today. Its so important to think about how to build effective engineering teams.
This is one of the books I hear about every year and people always find useful and not outdated. Time for a read I guess
Re: Ask HN: What's the best computer science book you've read recently?
#99Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach is a great read!
actually, i found the "Paradigms Of AI Programming" by peter-norvig to be waay better.
Re: Ask HN: What's the best computer science book you've read recently?
#100Like others in this thread, this is more (only, in fact) about programming but I found The Go Programming Language to be an absolutely perfect introduction to Go with fantastic examples and succinct prose. It's beautifully typeset as well, which doesn't hurt. http://www.gopl.io ISBN: 978-0134190440
I've been planning to get into GO this spring, would this be a good start? Or is there a possibility that it goes out of date?