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Ask HN: What are your favourite textbooks?

• cpach 5y ago
  Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_of_Computer_Programs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_o...
• cafard 5y ago
  Operating Systems: Design and Implementation by Andrew Tanenbaum Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by Hennessy and Patterson An Introduction to Database Systems by C.J. Date Transaction Processing: Principles and Techniques by Gray and Reuter Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation by Hopcroft and Ullman
• jalcazar 5y ago
  "A first course in differential equations" by Dennis G. Zill "Introduction to Algorithms" by Cormen "Distributed Computing Through Combinatorial Topology" by Kozlov, Herlihy & Rajsbaum "Practical UNIX programming" by A. Robbins
• genjipress 5y ago
  "Telling Writing" (4th Ed.), Macrorie. Easily the single best text I have ever read about how to become a better writer. "The Visual Display Of Quantitative Information", Edward Tufte.
• Tarucho 5y ago
  "The C programming language" by Kernighan & Ritchie
• rex_lupi 5y ago
  just a few: Feynman's lectures on physics David J Griffith's Electrodynamics and quantum mechanics Molecular biology of the cell The art of electronics, Horowitz and Hill