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The Secret Guide to Computers is a book on computer hardware and software techniques by Russ Walter. [1] The book was written to be useful in both teaching and professional environments. [2] Its goal is to describe everything necessary to become a "computer expert," covering philosophies, technicalities, hardware, software, theory, and practice ...
SICP has been influential in computer science education, and several later books have been inspired by its style. Structure and Interpretation of Classical Mechanics (SICM), another book that uses Scheme as an instructional element, by Gerald Jay Sussman and Jack Wisdom; Software Design for Flexibility, by Chris Hanson and Gerald Jay Sussman
Publishers Weekly, shortly after Code's publication, said "Initial response, at least among traditional tech book readers, has been positive" and quotes the book's editor, Ben Ryan, as saying "We're trying to cross the boundary of the computer section, and break out Code as general nonfiction science". It also praises both the quality of the ...
For each kind of data definition, the book explains how to organize the program in principle, thus enabling a programmer who encounters a new form of data to still construct a program systematically. Like Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP), HtDP relies on a variant of the programming language Scheme.
How to Solve it by Computer is a computer science book by R. G. Dromey, [1] first published by Prentice-Hall in 1982. It is occasionally used as a textbook, especially in India.
The first volume of ‘The Art of Computer Programming’, ‘Fundamental Algorithms’, took five years to complete between 1963 and 1968 while working at both Caltech and Burroughs. Knuth's dedication in Volume 1 reads: This series of books is affectionately dedicated to the Type 650 computer once installed at Case Institute of Technology,
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Computer Literature Survey: A Key to the Language of Computers. IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. Misa, Thomas J. (2009). "Bibliography for History of Computing". Charles Babbage Institute; Pritchard, Alan (1969). A Guide to Computer Literature. Archon Books. Rojas, Raul (2001). Encyclopedia of Computers and Computer History. Routledge.