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Ask HN: Good books on the history of computer science?
I like computer science, but I would like to know more about it's history. Any good book recommendations? Maybe a good book on the overview and then some good ones on specific aspects (business, technical, biographies, etc.)
- iamdann 14y agoHackers by Steven Levy, if you haven't read that yet
- ninetax 14y agoThanks, I'll check it out!
- jrmenon 14y agoWhile not a complete history, the following book, 'Design and Evolution of C++', does go into some history of other languages that influenced C++: http://www.amazon.com/The-Design-Evolution-Bjarne-Stroustrup/dp/0201543303 http://www.amazon.com/The-Design-Evolution-Bjarne-Stroustrup... If you happen to be in bay area, visiting the 'Computer History Museum' is a good start too: http://www.computerhistory.org/ http://www.computerhistory.org/
- RNeff 14y agoComputing: A Concise History by Paul E. Ceruzzi From Airline Reservations to Sonic the Hedgehog: A History of the Software Industry by Martin Campbell-Kelly/ The Computer History Museum is in Mountain View, CA, part of Silicon Valley, close to the Googleplex and Microsoft SV. It has the second, working Babbage Difference Engine. Also a youtube channel of lectures.
- ninetax 14y agoCool, I'll take a look that those. I didn't get around to seeing the computer history museum this summer, maybe another time. It sounds awesome!
- seltzered_ 14y agoCODE by Charles Petzold might be worth it.
- turbojerry 14y agoTuring's Cathedral Darwin Among the Machines Technomanifestos Possiplex What Technology Wants A couple of not computer related, but quite interesting books- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions A Thousand Years of Nonlinear History
- ronyeh 14y agoI enjoyed this one: http://www.codersatwork.com/ http://www.codersatwork.com/ A bunch of interviews with famous coders.