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On June 10, 2022, Petzold announced that an expanded second edition would be published later that year. The second edition was released on July 28, 2022, along with an interactive companion website developed by Petzold. [2] [3] The idea of writing the book came to him in 1987 while writing a column called "PC Tutor" for PC Magazine. [4]
The C Programming Language (sometimes termed K&R, after its authors' initials) is a computer programming book written by Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie, the latter of whom originally designed and implemented the C programming language, as well as co-designed the Unix operating system with which development of the language was closely intertwined.
The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP) is a comprehensive monograph written by the computer scientist Donald Knuth presenting programming algorithms and their analysis. Volumes 1–5 are intended to represent the central core of computer programming for sequential machines.
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master is a book about computer programming and software engineering, written by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas and published in October 1999. [1] [2] [3] It is used as a textbook in related university courses. [4] It was the first in a series of books under the label The Pragmatic Bookshelf.
The first edition (1986) is informally called the "red dragon book" to distinguish it from the second edition [5] and from Aho & Ullman's 1977 Principles of Compiler Design sometimes known as the "green dragon book". [5] Topics covered in the first edition include: Compiler structure; Lexical analysis (including regular expressions and finite ...
Crash! The Story of the Computer and IT from Babbage to the Era of Internet Worms, Open Source, Web Services and SOA. Corrillium Press Limited. ISBN 0-9552634-0-9. Williams, Michael R. (1997). A History of Computing Technology, 2nd ed. IEEE Computer Society Press. ISBN 0-8186-7739-2.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) is a computer science textbook by Massachusetts Institute of Technology professors Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman. It is known as the "Wizard Book" in hacker culture. [1]
The first version, 101 went into a second printing and eventually sold 10,000 copies. Ahl later noted that “was far more books than there were computers around, so people were buying three, four, five of them for each computer.” [2] The second version, BASIC, was re-printed many times and was the first computer book to sell a million copies ...