Books For Nerds

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Increase your knowledge of things and non-things (and all somethings's in between)! To request books for purchase by the ACM, see Wanted Books.

Contents 1 Less Pure Theory (Algorithms, Architecture, Operating Systems, Language Design, etc.) 2 Pure Theory (Logic, Computation, Complexity, Formal Things, etc.) 3 Too-Pure Theory (Math, Formal Non-Things, etc.) 4 Non-theory (Hardware, Programming Languages, etc.) 5 Non-CS (Fiction, Unrelated Non-Fiction, etc.)

[edit] Less Pure Theory (Algorithms, Architecture, Operating Systems, Language Design, etc.)

• The Goldman Bible
• Algorithm Design by Tardos and Kleinberg (CSE 441 Textbook)
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

[edit] Pure Theory (Logic, Computation, Complexity, Formal Things, etc.)

[edit] Too-Pure Theory (Math, Formal Non-Things, etc.)

• How To Think Like A Mathematician

[edit] Non-theory (Hardware, Programming Languages, etc.)

• Head First Java (the best Java book EVER, really.)
• Writing Solid Code by Steve Maguire
• The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas

[edit] Non-CS (Fiction, Unrelated Non-Fiction, etc.)

• Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll was a famous logician actually, in the modern day he might have been a cs student)
• Gödel Escher Bach
• Pragmatic Thinking and Learning: Refactor Your Wetware (A great book about thinking like a computer scientist / software engineer)