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Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by sethhochberg »

Putting my mostly-retired audio engineer hat back on for a minute...

The Yamaha Sound Reinforcement Handbook

https://www.amazon.com/Sound-Reinforcement-Handbook-Gary-Dav...

This is basically the soundman's bible. Sold for an aspiring live sound engineer, has much more than just advice for live sound guys - covering everything from microphones to acoustics to basic electronics to handy rules of thumb to MIDI, all written to be relentlessly pragmatic. It even has a handy appendix covering logarithms.

This isn't the book to give you the final "20%" of knowledge on anything it covers - but it will help you on your way to the first 80% a lot more quickly than most other writing on anything related to semi/pro audio, and pretty much every expert in the field is at least familiar with it, if they don't own a copy.

There seem to be plenty of people interested in music and audio around here, so hopefully someone finds the unusual reference useful.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by HaoZeke »

As a chemical engineer (many of these go beyond the undergraduate level):

1) The principles of chemical equilibrium, by Kenneth George Denbigh 2) Mass Transfer by Sherwood 3) Process Dynamics, Modeling, and Control by Babatunde Ogunnaike and W. Harmon Ray 4) Chemical Process Industries by Shreeves 5) An Introduction to Numerical Methods and Analysis by James F. Epperson 6) Optimization: Theory and Practice by Gordon S.G. Beveridge and Robert S. Schechter 7) Unit Operations by Maccabe and Smith 8) Advanced transport phenomena by John Charles Slattery

Admittedly these are not the best known of books (eg. Sherwoods Mass Transfer is almost out of print, in favor of Treybal) but I these are my favorites.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by charlysl »

allenleee wrote: post #14

In functional programming: [0] The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs [1] The_Little_Schemer [2] Programming in Haskell - Graham Hutton [3] Types and Programming Languages-Benjamin C. Pierce --- PDFS [0]( https://github.com/allenleein/brains/blob/master/Zen-of-Func... ) [1]( https://github.com/allenleein/brains/blob/master/Zen-of-Func... ) [2]( https://github.com/allenleein/brains/blob/master/Zen-of-Fu…

I am not an expert, but maybe because of that I believe that I can offer valuable advice to those who are totally new to functional programming (or feel that they are missing something), and want to get the core basics down cold without getting drowned in accidental complexity, do yourself a favor and start with edx's free moocs "How To Code" [1] [2], which are based on "How To Design Programs" [3]. After that, you will cruise through the recommended classics above.

If interested in why if you are an FP newbie said material is superior to SICP , read the pdf paper "The Structure and Interpretation of the Computer Science Curriculum" [4]

[1] https://www.edx.org/course/how-code-simple-data-ubcx-htc1x

[2] https://www.edx.org/course/how-code-complex-data-ubcx-htc2x

[3] https://htdp.org/

[4] https://www2.ccs.neu.edu/racket/pubs/jfp2004-fffk.pdf

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by sterlind »

Algorithm Design Manual by Steven Skeina. CLRS has all the nitty-gritty but I didn't jive with it at all. Skeina won't tell you line-for-line how to balance a red-black tree, but it gets the idea across with clarity.

Also, the war stories are both interesting and useful. Not the book for everyone; most important is to pick one you enjoy reading.

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Post by ssl232 »

The Art of Electronics. My field is experimental physics so this introductory textbook is often the starting point for our designs for photodetectors, power supplies, amplifiers and the like. I'm excitedly waiting for the X Chapters follow-up to the third edition.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by snovv_crash »

atroyn wrote: post #46

In Robotics / Computer Vision: - Thrun et. al, Probabilistic Robotics - Multiple View Geometry, Hartley / Zisserman - An Invitation to 3D Vision, Ma - Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning, Bishop -Convex Optimization, Boyd

We've recently replaced Hartley/Zisserman (which was getting a bit long in the tooth) with:

Photogrammetric Computer Vision: Statistics, Geometry, Orientation and Reconstruction by Wrobel and Förstner.

Re: Ask HN: What are the best textbooks in your field of expertise?

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Post by RandomSort »

In Continuous Delivery and DevOps:

Lean software Development - Mary & Tom Poppendieck

The DevOps Handbook - Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois

Accelerate - Nicole Forsgren, Jez Humble, Gene Kim

Continuous Integration - Paul M. Duvall, Andrew Glover, Steve Matyas

Continuous Delivery - Jez Humble, David Farley

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