Edgar Dijkstra's 1988 Paper "On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science" It's just a paper, but still I'd recommend it, because it was highly influenti

Edgar Dijkstra's 1988 Paper "On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science" It's just a paper, but still I'd recommend it, because it was highly influential. It was indeed so influential that it has its own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Cruelty_of_Really_Teaching_Computer_Science https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Cruelty_of_Really_Teach... In the paper he argues that - the computer industy has been progressing with exponential growth 1948-1988, - will continue to do so for decades (he was right in that) - this rate of progress is unprecedented, and the human brain is unfit to deal with such growth, thus - the only way to deal with such enormous mount of power is: Mathematics, because proofs are rigorous. (I'm simplifying a bit here.)