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Hopefully in a few more years they add a few more books to that list, the 90s and 00s are over. Unfortunately it's hard to think of a particular book that shoul

by omouse 11y ago

Hopefully in a few more years they add a few more books to that list, the 90s and 00s are over. Unfortunately it's hard to think of a particular book that should go into the series. ACM is awesome.

nn3 11y ago
Some proposals for newer classic books: Thinking Forth (That's from the 80ies. Amazing that they left that out. ACM doesn't like Forth?) Hacker's delight The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis The practice of programming Code complete
VLM 11y ago
Favorite = enjoyable, not the best textbook award, but the most fun in the sense of I wish I were sitting on the patio reading this book. Classic = worth reading multiple times at multiple stages of your life and implies its a couple decades old. The various anthologies of A. K. Dewdney of Computer Recreations columns from the 80s are still enjoyable very light reading. This brings up the issue of nostalgia, when I was a noob those were awesome noob books, today they're probably OK noob books, but maybe there are better current noob books. However in 2015 they are definitely very nostalgic and confuses the issue of favorite / current. An example of nostalgia in the book selection is Ullman's older automata book (from '69) made the cut and its very nostalgic but personally I prefer Hopcroft Motwani and Ullman's "Introduction to automata theory, languages, computation" from about a decade ago. The new book probably isn't old enough to be a classic yet and the ancient one is probably there via nostalgia. I think the "7 whatevers in 7 weeks" book series is light fun entertainment. I have no idea if the comparison/contrast style will hold entertainment value in 2035, so its hard to predict if the series will become a classic. Perhaps every IT/language book in 2035 will be comparison/contrast format, or perhaps that style will be considered hopelessly dated. Or beyond mere style issues, maybe people will never advance beyond fad of the month and neophilia. A predictive list of '00 and '10 books that may become favorite classics in 2020s, 2030s is difficult but could be interesting.

by omouse 11y ago

Hopefully in a few more years they add a few more books to that list, the 90s and 00s are over. Unfortunately it's hard to think of a particular book that should go into the series. ACM is awesome.

nn3 11y ago

Some proposals for newer classic books: Thinking Forth (That's from the 80ies. Amazing that they left that out. ACM doesn't like Forth?) Hacker's delight The Art of Computer Systems Performance Analysis The practice of programming Code complete

VLM 11y ago

Favorite = enjoyable, not the best textbook award, but the most fun in the sense of I wish I were sitting on the patio reading this book. Classic = worth reading multiple times at multiple stages of your life and implies its a couple decades old. The various anthologies of A. K. Dewdney of Computer Recreations columns from the 80s are still enjoyable very light reading. This brings up the issue of nostalgia, when I was a noob those were awesome noob books, today they're probably OK noob books, but maybe there are better current noob books. However in 2015 they are definitely very nostalgic and confuses the issue of favorite / current. An example of nostalgia in the book selection is Ullman's older automata book (from '69) made the cut and its very nostalgic but personally I prefer Hopcroft Motwani and Ullman's "Introduction to automata theory, languages, computation" from about a decade ago. The new book probably isn't old enough to be a classic yet and the ancient one is probably there via nostalgia. I think the "7 whatevers in 7 weeks" book series is light fun entertainment. I have no idea if the comparison/contrast style will hold entertainment value in 2035, so its hard to predict if the series will become a classic. Perhaps every IT/language book in 2035 will be comparison/contrast format, or perhaps that style will be considered hopelessly dated. Or beyond mere style issues, maybe people will never advance beyond fad of the month and neophilia. A predictive list of '00 and '10 books that may become favorite classics in 2020s, 2030s is difficult but could be interesting.