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"The Annotated Turing" by Charles Petzold: https://www.amazon.com/Annotated-Turing-Through-Historic-Computability/dp/0470229055 https://www.amazon.com/Annotated

• pliftkl 10y ago
  This is one of the more fascinating books that I've read recently. The commentary makes the paper itself very accessible. I rather enjoyed the direct reproduction of the paper itself (with typos!) in the book, and the near line by line commentary at points. It's not the way that I would want to be taught about Turing machines, but it's amazing to see them articulated for the first time.
• henrik_w 10y ago
  On my "to read" list, but haven't read it yet. However, I started watching these screencasts on Turing Machines and Lambda Calculus (examples in Python), and they are fantastic: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/introduction-to-computation https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/intro... Also, I found this blog post good: "Tech Book Face Off: Gödel, Escher, Bach Vs. The Annotated Turing" http://sam-koblenski.blogspot.se/2016/01/tech-book-face-off-godel-escher-bach-vs.html http://sam-koblenski.blogspot.se/2016/01/tech-book-face-off-...
• mindfulgeek 10y ago
  I was very happily surprised by how much I enjoyed this book.