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It really depends on where you are. If you've done a CS undergrad program you probably already know everything in CODE. But for a bright high school student o
by kenjackson 15y ago
It really depends on where you are. If you've done a CS undergrad program you probably already know everything in CODE. But for a bright high school student or self-taught programmer interested in CS the only book I'd rank higher would be SICP.
- dustingetz 15y agoyeah, that seems to be accurate. that's the thing about these "best book ever for all software engineers" posts -- anyone reading even just a few industry books a year already knows this stuff.
- nobody31 15y agoIf ONLY cs undergrads knew everything in code. I'm still trying to teach some of them that a memory copy isn't instant.
- dustingetz 15y agoyeah, but the ones who actually care about CS probably do know most things covered in CODE.
- jff 15y agoJust trying to teach them that somewhere, down under all that runtime, there's a bunch of hardware which deals with the world 32 bits at a time, and that in the end all these magical "objects" really cook down to a bunch of memory addresses... yeow. That's what I loved about being in computer engineering. You'll sit there and fill in charts of the cache, perform Tomasulo scheduling by hand, and by god at the end you'll have a pretty decent idea of how the machine does things. Not to say that CS students can't or don't learn the same thing, just that the ones I knew tended not to.
- nobody31 15y agoBut you don't need all that stuff any more - you have garbage collection !