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Anyone know any good books about Chemistry for those of us that know naught about it (particularly books related to programming)?

• hugh 18y ago
  Chemistry and programming? You mean, like, computational chemistry? (That's an awfully hard subject to get into, and I don't know any books written at an introductory level.)
  • mickt 18y ago
    How about a good basic Chemistry book?
    • hugh 18y ago
      Hmmm, can't think of one. There's a lot of freshman chemistry textbooks, but they're all pretty similar, and pretty boring. Chemistry, the in-between science, doesn't really lend itself so easily to popularization as physics or biology. There's no deep principles, and no amazing phenomena, it's pretty much just stamp collecting. Maybe somebody else will have some suggestions though?
      • mickt 18y ago
        Yeah that's the problem, they're all boring and don't lead to a bit of light reading after a hard day at work.
    • mechanical_fish 18y ago
      I picked up Linus Pauling's book. Famous guy, fairly literate book, but I haven't gotten far enough through it to see if it's really great or not.
      • mickt 18y ago
        Good reviews on Amazon and it's inexpensive. So maybe I'll pick up a copy. I'm asking cause I might get a gig working for a non-profit that does a lot of biological research.