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Five Programming Books I Couldn't Survive Without

• michael_dorfman 18y ago
  Not a bad list, but missing a few important ones: SICP, TAOCP and OSDI, for starters...
  • kylec 18y ago
    He does mention that he "...reach[es] for Introduction to Algorithms before Knuth's The Art of Computer Programming every time.", so it looks like TAOCP was intentionally omitted.
    • michael_dorfman 18y ago
      Yeah, I saw that. I commented on his site that I think CLRS and TAOCP are two very different types of books, and shouldn't be viewed as substitutes for each other.
  • pchristensen 18y ago
    What is OSDI?
    • haasted 18y ago
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_Systems_Design_and_Implementation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operating_Systems_Design_and_Im... probably... Found through the disambiguation page for OSDI.
  • aschobel 18y ago
    I would also throw in K&R, Effective Java, and Concrete Math. Not a bad list otherwise.
• evgen 18y ago
  Should be renamed "Five programming books I read once back in college but now only keep on the shelf to make sure that other CS geeks know how 'leet' I am."