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Which is your favorite 70-80s computer book?
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#12BBC Micro Advanced Users Guide
Programming the Z80, Rodnay Zacks
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#13"Programming Pearls" by Jon Bentley.
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#14"Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution" by Steven Levy.
It's not technical, but it is very much about computers.
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#15Kernighan Ritchie: The C Programming Language.
I had a copy lying near my unix lab computer. It must have been around 85 and I hated it back then (it was a very bad german translation).
4 weeks ago I grabbed an old copy from our library (this time the american 2nd edition) and now I appreciate how well this book is written.
If you have some time, read it. Its a real pleasure!
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#16Leo Brodie's 'Starting Forth'. Just a great book on how to think about factoring a program.
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#17"The Soul of a New Machine" by Tracy Kidder.
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#18SICP
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#19Must have been this one: http://www.scribd.com/doc/2710812/c64users-guide00toc-introd...
When computers still came with a manual that taught you how to program...
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#20I'm too young to play... :(
I fall into some grey area...
All I can remember is waiting for my dad to bring home the latest "3-2-1 Contact" so that I could look at the basic program that was in it. Then my dad broke the computer and it wasn't until 10+ years later that I was in a C programming class in college.
I kinda skipped all the good stuff, so even with an early start I'm playing catchup.