My Top 100 Programming, Computer and Science Books: Part Three

Very much looking forward to the rest of this list. Obviously there are tons of lists on the topic, but his list has been slightly different so far, and his personal takes have been nice.

Here are the other two posts in the series:

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/top-100-books-part-one/

http://www.catonmat.net/blog/top-100-books-part-two/

And here are a few more links on this general topic in case anyone's not seen them before:

http://cspray.github.io/my.so-archive/100-most-influential-p...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711/what-is-the-single-m...

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38210/what-non-programmin...

http://blog.codinghorror.com/recommended-reading-for-develop...

Re: My Top 100 Programming, Computer and Science Books: Part Three

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Post by classicsnoot » Tue, Jun 02, 2015, 2:54 PM UTC

Share what you are reading with the HN bookclub.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9636361

Re: My Top 100 Programming, Computer and Science Books: Part Three

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Post by celticninja » Tue, Jun 02, 2015, 3:07 PM UTC

98Windows wrote: post #3

celticninja wrote: post #2

just a placeholder for later

why do a placeholder comment?

work account on a work computer

Re: My Top 100 Programming, Computer and Science Books: Part Three

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Post by harperlee » Tue, Jun 02, 2015, 4:53 PM UTC

celticninja wrote: post #2

just a placeholder for later

You can just upvote the story and it will be saved on your profile.

Re: My Top 100 Programming, Computer and Science Books: Part Three

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Post by kenjackson » Tue, Jun 02, 2015, 8:10 PM UTC

Good books it seems, but the one book I'd never seen before was the Thermodynamics book. He makes this claim:

"From my own experience this book can be worked through in two full nights"

Really? In my experience there's no way I could make it through a 150 page physics book in two nights, unless I already knew the material. And even then I think it would be tough.

That said, if this is a book I could do in two nights, and actually learn Thermodynamics -- then I'm all in!