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• MalcolmDiggs · Aug 29, 2014 · Recommends

  These are loosely related to your topic. But, depending on where your interests lie, these might be interesting for you: "Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers" - John MacCormick "Domain Driven Design" - Eric Evans "Artificial Intelligence: The Basics" - Kevin Warwick ...and on the Project management / Executive…

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• mitchelldeacon9 · Dec 15, 2016 · Recommends

  …Mythical Man-Month, 2E Hunt, Andrew and David Thomas (1999) Pragmatic Programmer Levy, Steven (2001) Crypto: How Code Rebels Beat the Government – Saving Privacy in the Digital Age MacCormick, John (2012) Nine Algorithms that Changed the Future Mitnick, Kevin and William Simon (2002) Art of Deception Poulsen, Kevin (2011) Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cyber-Crime Underworld Raymond, Eric (2003) Art of Unix Programming…

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• mitchelldeacon9 · Mar 28, 2020 · Recommends

  …Cause Great Firms to Fail Hafner, Katie and Matthew Lyon (1996) Where Wizards Stay Up Late: Origins of the Internet Hunt, Andrew and David Thomas (1999) Pragmatic Programmer MacCormick, John (2012) Nine Algorithms that Changed the Future McConnell, Steve (2004) Code Complete, 2nd ed. Mitnick, Kevin and William Simon (2002) Art of Deception Poulsen, Kevin (2011) Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cyber-Crime Underworld…

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• dbarlett · Dec 29, 2013 · Recommends

  …Theory, A Flood http://www.amazon.com/The-Information-History-Theory-Flood/d... Turing's Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe http://www.amazon.com/Turings-Cathedral-Origins-Digital-Univ... Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers http://www.amazon.com/Nine-Algorithms-That-Changed-Future/dp...

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• cenny · Feb 27, 2022 · Recommends

  …Algorithms (https://www.programmingbooks.dev/#grokking-algorithms) - The Little Schemer (https://www.programmingbooks.dev/#the-little-schemer) These two books I really found interesting as well: - Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future (https://www.programmingbooks.dev/extra/#nine-algorithms-that...) - Good Math (https://www.programmingbooks.dev/extra/#good-math)

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• dmunoz · Mar 9, 2014 · Mentions

  …the same time the book these equations were originally collected in (as pointed out in another comment, this is Ian Stewart's In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World), the book Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers also came out. They were actually published ~5 months apart, but I remember them being close together on Amazon recommendations, list of other books people…

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• techplex · Oct 10, 2016 · Mentions

  Neil Fraser wrote about getting a letter from a an inmate wanting to learn to program. He sent two books and a problem to solve. CS Unplugged: Computer Science without a computer and Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers. I've also posed a problem for him to ponder: "You have five fingers on your hand (usually -- a few people have more, many have fewer). Each finger can…

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