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Andrew Tropin

If you could recommend only one book from your field of interest/expertise. What it whould be?

#book #books

Like 11 May at 5:30 | Open on fosstodon.org

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Andrew Tropin

nand2tetris :: the whole path from a simple logical element to high-level user-facing software. Don't require any specific knowledge, gives a very solid understanding about computers.

11 May at 5:34 | Open on fosstodon.org

Dr Know

@abcdw love that book

11 May at 12:27 | Open on techhub.social

dgr

@abcdw reminds me to resume playing https://store.steampowered.com/app/1444480/Turing_Complete/

11 May at 14:24 | Open on toot.li

Andrew Tropin

@dgr oh, that's nice!

11 May at 15:22 | Open on fosstodon.org

brokenix

@abcdw well there is field of interest and there re addictions
this one has both
disclaimer - I am not a voracious book reader

11 May at 5:34 | Open on emacs.ch

enistello

@abcdw Sed & Awk - Dale Dougherty. Essential reading if text is your thing. #books

11 May at 5:38 | Open on fosstodon.org

Gee

@abcdw power system analysis and design. 4th edition by J. Duncan Glover et al

11 May at 7:59 | Open on mstdn.social

Camel

@abcdw
'Monsoon Dervish' by Kris Larsen.

11 May at 13:53 | Open on lor.sh

Brian O'Reilly

@abcdw Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming (PAIP) by Peter Norvig. A book that has very little to do with what we now consider "AI", but which is the best extant tutorial on idiomatic Common Lisp.

11 May at 14:27 | Open on emacs.ch

fnurkla

@abcdw 'The Visual Display of Quantitative Information' by Edward Tufte

11 May at 20:28 | Open on emacs.ch

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