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Textbooks by the Faculty of the C.S. Department of Kansas State University

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Post by userbinator »

I can understand calling these "texts", but "books"? These remind me more of the sectioned documentation pages that one often comes across on the "document web"; e.g. https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO.html

To me, "book" implies constant-sized pages and content formatted such that it could be used to produce an actual hardcopy book (e.g. a PDF).

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Post by anamexis »

userbinator wrote: post #2

I can understand calling these "texts", but "books"? These remind me more of the sectioned documentation pages that one often comes across on the "document web"; e.g. https://tldp.org/HOWTO/Plug-and-Play-HOWTO.html To me, "book" implies constant-sized pages and content formatted such that it could be used to produce an actual hardcopy book (e.g. a PDF).

"Textbook" often has a connotation of being written to the needs of teaching a particular course, which I think "text" does not.

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Post by chrissnell »

frontierkodiak wrote: post #3

Go cats!

Came for it and did not leave disappointed.

EMAW

I love to see this kind of stuff, especially when the books are used in the curriculum. Textbooks are a racket and K-State, like so many state schools, struggles to be affordable to the student of the state. This kind of thing can help a lot.

Schools should incentivize this!

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Post by Victerius »

This is a good resource.

Is there an equivalent to Feynman's lectures on physics but for computer science?

Which books about computer science will remain relevant in one hundred years, when most engineers will probably be using programming languages and frameworks whose creators are not even born yet? I don't work in software, but I like to collect foundational texts in various disciplines. I have some programming experience under my belt, and I've taken a few introductory classes about data structures and algorithms, but my personal library lacks CS texts.

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Post by thaumasiotes »

Victerius wrote: post #8

This is a good resource. Is there an equivalent to Feynman's lectures on physics but for computer science? Which books about computer science will remain relevant in one hundred years, when most engineers will probably be using programming languages and frameworks whose creators are not even born yet? I don't work in software, but I like to collect foundational texts in various disciplines. I have some programming ex…

People talk about The Art of Computer Programming that way. I can't personally speak for the contents though.
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