alt Hacker NewsI always see lists of like 100 MUST HAVE books for Computer Science. Is there like a top 5 must have books for Computer Science?
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Not sure what your goal is, but If like me you don't have a computer science degree, and want to fill some gaps, this site is fantastic.
See the "still too much section". If you want the top two books they recommend if you don't have time for the rest.
It’s very dependent on the type of work you end up doing IMO. Sort of like “which programming language should I learn?”. Not a great answer, I know..
I got no particular book recommendation, but this book seems more about the numbers than relations -- maybe my PDF search is broken, but both 'type theory' and 'category theory' return 0 results. I would recommend to also look into those if you are interested in mathematics of computer science.
no, there's no such agreeable thing. everyone has their own idea. but if i was to recommend such today, i would say, go on a self discovery method and find your idea books for algorithms/algorithm analysis & data structure, automata theory, programming languages, operating systems & machine learning.
Concrete Abstraction and next, SICP, both for Scheme. If you do these, you already understood most of the grounds of CS; learning another language will be a piece of cake.
It's more useful to practice programming through projects. Then once you feel you're missing the knowledge for a particular problem you're trying to solve, read up about that one.
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Top 5 will never cover the field. Here's my top 10
* Brookshear and Brylow - Computer Science - An Overview
* Forta - Teach yourself SQL in 10 minutes
* Stallings - Computer Organization and Architecture
* Stallings - Operating Systems - Internals and Design Principles
* CLRS
* Kurose, Ross - Computer Networking - A Top Down Approach
* Sipser - Introduction to The Theory of Computation
* Stallings, Brown - Computer Security - Principles and Practice
* Aumasson - Serious Cryptography
* Russell, Norvig - Artificial Intelligence - A Modern Approach
And even this fails to cover programming languages. Python is the lingua franca of the field. Most past recommended books are getting outdated, but perhaps Matthes' Python Crash Course 3rd edition.