On topic, a great programming book other HN readers might like is Mazes for Programmers by Jamis Buck (http://www.mazesforprogrammers.com/ http://www.mazesforpr

On topic, a great programming book other HN readers might like is Mazes for Programmers by Jamis Buck (http://www.mazesforprogrammers.com/ http://www.mazesforprogrammers.com/ .) It's brilliant: very clearly explained, you can recreate source by reading the description in text which I find is the rarest of rare items in books about algorithms. Source is in Ruby, is very minimal and clearly written and is easily portable to other languages (I have to C++ and Delphi, and github contains many repos in other languages too.) It's rare that I read a programming book I rave about, but I do rave about this one - as you can all tell :)