I was surprised that no one mentioned this one: http://ricardogeek.com/docs/clean_code.pdf Robert C. Martin - Clean Code
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What is illegal download?
Ask HN: What's the best computer science book you've read recently?
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Please don't post links to illegal downloads. Flagged.
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From the linked material:
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All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. This publication is protected by copyright, and permission must be obtained from the publisher prior to any prohibited reproduction, storage in a retrieval system, or transmission in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or likewise.
I see no indication that the site is affiliated with Pearson or Bob Martin or that they have permission to redistribute the PDF. It's much more likely they're hosting it without permission, and therefore illegally.
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#194High Performance Browser Networking by Ilya Grigorik
Available also online for free at https://hpbn.co/
Lots of great insights about how TCP/IP, 3G etc work and how it affects the performance of websites
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#195Network Security Through Data Analysis
http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920028444.do
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I disagree with this pretty strongly, actually. The best skill you can get from SICP-level exercises is looking at the code and being completely confident that you understand it and that it is correct. The best way to use them is to write the code without running it, and once you are sure, review it with someone else to find out if you were right. This breaks down a bit around chapters four and five where you are plu…
Reviewing with someone else can be a challenge for self-study; that's the step a test suite would replace. Of course someone could use the test suite to just make changes semi-randomly until it works, but there's no reason it has to be used that way.
Self-study students can find someone online to study together.
I like the amount of projects SICP inspires. That's one of the best things about it. I wouldn't want to discourage writing a test suite, but I wouldn't suggest studying it by using one.
SICP questions are designed to have elegant solutions, which may be missed, this is one reason why a study group is better than a test suite.
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Reading GEB always makes me feel like such a philistine.
haha, I'm reading it now - finally after many years - and I can absolutely relate to the feeling you describe. I decided that I won't be hard on myself for not understanding it all at the first read. Still quite enjoying it so far (1/3rd read). Additionally I also decided that I don't have to finish it unless I feel like ( specially considering it's 800pages).
You just read and re-read it over and over and still find something interesting
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#198What if - by Randall Monroe. It's not a computer science book but has lots of great questions and answers to what if questions. He answers with pretty pictures and funny explanations.
I learnt a lot about what I don't know Being able to do rough math off the head, thinking critically and out of the box.
Also the book smells good. Most of the time I read certain books because they smell good.
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Working through the class on Coursera now, and it's a lot of fun. https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer
I wonder if, in that same spirit, it's possible to make building, together , a complex microcontroller , a fun project ?
That classes basically builds a microcontroller. It's Harvard Architecture with a split iROM and dRAM. Simple ALU, 16 bit CPU. You'd need one hell of a bread board to physically build it, though.
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Working through the class on Coursera now, and it's a lot of fun. https://www.coursera.org/learn/build-a-computer
I wonder if, in that same spirit, it's possible to make building, together , a complex microcontroller , a fun project ?
Well there is the FAP80 now.
https://github.com/dekuNukem/fap80
https://dekunukem.wordpress.com/