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Used textbooks can get pretty cheap when you don't need the exact edition for the problem sets. Textbooks I still have: - Operating Systems, Tannenbaum - MIN
by jldugger 3y ago
Used textbooks can get pretty cheap when you don't need the exact edition for the problem sets.
Textbooks I still have:
- Operating Systems, Tannenbaum
- MINIX, Tannenbaum
- Computer Networks, Tannenbaum
Not schoolbooks:
- UNIX & Linux System Administrator Handbook
- The Linux Programming Interface
- Time Management for System Administrators, Limoncelli
- The Practice of System and Network Management, Limocelli et al.
NonCS:
- Statistics, Freedman
- MLA Handbook
- Technical Communication, Markel
- jldugger 3y agoOh, and one book I rather enjoyed was Ideas That Created the Future, which is not exactly a textbook (but is probably used by the author as such) so much as a survey on the history of computer science via primary sources. Each source has a 1-2 page summary providing context, but the meat is reading the original papers on computer design, Complexity Theory, various papers on logic and proofs and proofs of software properties, theorem provers, NP completeness, neural networks, etc. One thing I learned is that the idea of a computational neural network predates actual working general purpose computers by a few years, and is actually cited in the construction of computers as an inspiration. https://direct.mit.edu/books/edited-volume/5003/Ideas-That-Created-the-FutureClassic-Papers-of https://direct.mit.edu/books/edited-volume/5003/Ideas-That-C...