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Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution (ISBN 0-385-19195-2) is a book by Steven Levy about hacker culture. It was published in 1984 in Garden City , New York by Doubleday . Levy describes the people, the machines, and the events that defined the Hacker culture and the Hacker Ethic , from the early mainframe hackers at MIT , to the self-made ...
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age is a collection of essays from Paul Graham discussing hacking, programming languages, start-up companies, and many other technological issues.
Software Design for Flexibility, by Chris Hanson and Gerald Jay Sussman; How to Design Programs (HtDP), which intends to be a more accessible book for introductory Computer Science, and to address perceived incongruities in SICP; Essentials of Programming Languages (EoPL), a book for Programming Languages courses
"Hacking, The art of exploitation" Hacking: The Art of Exploitation (ISBN 1-59327-007-0) is a book by Jon "Smibbs" Erickson about computer security and network security. [1] It was published by No Starch Press in 2003, [2] [3] with a second edition in 2008. [4] [5] All the examples in the book were developed, compiled, and tested on Gentoo ...
In 2001, Paul Graham announced that he was working on a new dialect of Lisp named Arc.Over the years since, he has written several essays describing features or goals of the language, and some internal projects at Graham's startup business incubator named Y Combinator have been written in Arc, most notably the Hacker News web forum and news aggregator program.
Some free software advocates use the terms "Free and Open-Source Software" (FOSS) or "Free/Libre and Open-Source Software" (FLOSS) as a form of inclusive compromise, which brings free and open-source software advocates together to work on projects cohesively. Some users believe this is an ideal solution in order to promote both the user's ...
"\/\The Conscience of a Hacker/\/ (aka the Hacker Manifesto)" by The Mentor has been an inspiration to young hackers since the 1980s, having been published in the 7th issue of Phrack. "Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit" [ 17 ] by Aleph One , published in issue 49, is the "classic paper" [ 18 ] on stack buffer overflows , partly responsible ...
Hacker's Delight is a software algorithm book by Henry S. Warren, Jr. first published in 2002. It presents fast bit-level and low-level arithmetic algorithms for common tasks such as counting bits or improving speed of division by using multiplication.