List of computer-related books which have articles on Wikipedia for themselves or their writers.
Programming
Ada John Barnes – Programming in Ada 2012
C Andrew Koenig – C Traps and Pitfalls Brian W. Kernighan – The C Programming Language Guy L. Steele Jr. – C: A Reference Manual Herbert Schildt – C, The Complete Reference Peter van der Linden – Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets
C++ Andrei Alexandrescu – Modern C++ Design Bjarne Stroustrup – The C++ Programming Language, A Tour of C++, The Annotated C++ Reference Manual Herb Sutter – Exceptional C++, More Exceptional C++, Exceptional C++ Style, C++ Coding Standards John Paul Mueller – C++ All-In-One For Dummies Scott Meyers – Effective C++, More Effective C++, Effective Modern C++ Stanley B. Lippman – Inside the C++ Object Model, C++ Gems: Programming Pearls from The C++ Report
C# Andrew Troelsen – Pro C# 10 with .NET 6: Foundational Principles and Practices in Programming Bill Wagner – Effective C# Jeff Prosise – Programming Microsoft .NET Herbert Schildt – C#: A Beginner's Guide and C# 4.0: The Complete Reference
Fortran Daniel D. McCracken – A Guide to Fortran Programming Elliot Koffman – Problem Solving and Program Design in Fortran Jeanne Clare Adams – Fortran 90 Handbook and Programmer's Guide to Fortran 90 William H. Press – Numerical Recipes
Go Brian W. Kernighan – The Go Programming Language
Java Bruce Eckel – Thinking in Java James Gosling – The Java Programming Language Joshua Bloch – Effective Java Kathy Sierra – Head First Java Herbert Schildt – Java: The Complete Reference, Java: A Beginner's Guide, Java 2 Programmer's Reference
JavaScript Chris Minnick – JavaScript All-in-One For Dummies Douglas Crockford – JavaScript: The Good Parts and How JavaScript Works Danny Goodman – JavaScript Bible Jeremy Keith – DOM Scripting Laura Lemay – Laura Lemay's Web Workshop: JavaScript John Resig – Pro JavaScript Techniques and Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja John Smiley – Learn to Program with JavaScript
Lisp Guy L. Steele Jr. – Common Lisp the Language Patrick Henry Winston – Lisp (book) Paul Graham – On Lisp and ANSI Common Lisp Peter Norvig – Paradigms of AI Programming Peter Seibel – Practical Common Lisp Richard P. Gabriel – Performance and Evaluation of Lisp Systems Sonya Keene – Object-Oriented Programming in Common Lisp
Perl brian d foy – Mastering Perl chromatic – Perl Best Practices, Perl Hacks, Perl Testing: A Developer's Notebook Damian Conway – Object Oriented Perl GNU Savannah – Perl Design Patterns Book Joseph N. Hall – Effective Perl Programming Larry Wall – Programming Perl Mark Jason Dominus – Higher-Order Perl Randal L. Schwartz – Intermediate Perl and Learning Perl Sriram Srinivasan – Advanced Perl Programming Tom Christiansen – Perl Cookbook and Programming Perl 2nd and 3rd editions
PHP Rasmus Lerdorf – Programming PHP Zak Greant – PHP Functions Essential Reference David Mercer – Beginning PHP5
Python Alex Martelli — Python in a Nutshell and Python Cookbook Mark Pilgrim – Dive into Python Naomi Ceder — The Quick Python Book Wes McKinney — Python for Data Analysis Zed Shaw – Learn Python the Hard Way
R David G. Robinson — Text Mining with R Dirk Eddelbuettel – Seamless R and C++ Integration with Rcpp Hadley Wickham – Advanced R John Chambers – Software for data analysis programming with R John Fox – Using the R Commander: A Point-and-Click Interface for R Joseph Schmuller - R All-in-One For Dummies Paul Teetor - R Cookbook Roger Bivand – Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R Yihui Xie – Dynamic Documents with R and knitr
Ruby Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas – Programming Ruby Sandi Metz — Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby Sam Ruby, Dave Thomas, David Heinemeier Hansson – Agile Web Development with Rails why the lucky stiff – why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby Yukihiro Matsumoto — Ruby, Ruby in a Nutshell, and The Ruby Programming Language Zed Shaw — Learn Ruby the Hard Way
SQL C. J. Date – An Introduction to Database Systems Hugh Darwen – Databases, Types and The Relational Model: the Third Manifesto Ben Forta – SQL in 10 Minutes, Sams Teach Yourself Joe Celko – Joe Celko's SQL for Smarties
Visual Basic John Smiley – Learn to Program with Visual Basic 6 Michael Halvorson – Microsoft Visual Basic 4 Step by Step Dan Rahmel – Visual Basic .NET Reference Book Clayton Walnum – The Complete Idiot's Guide to Visual Basic 6 Mitchell Waite – Visual Basic How To
Algorithms Donald Knuth – The Art of Computer Programming Ellis Horowitz – Fundamentals of Computer Algorithms Henry S. Warren, Jr. – Hacker's Delight Niklaus Wirth – Algorithms + Data Structures = Programs and Systematic Programming Maurice Wilkes, David Wheeler, and Stanley Gill – The Preparation of Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer Maxime Crochemore and Wojciech Rytter – Jewels of Stringology Nachum Dershowitz and Edward Reingold – Calendrical Calculations Pedro Domingos – The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World Thomas H. Cormen – Algorithms Unlocked William H. Press, Saul A. Teukolsky, and Brian P. Flannery – Numerical Recipes Jon Bentley – Programming Pearls
Compilers
Alfred Aho and Jeffrey Ullman – Principles of Compiler Design Alfred Aho, Monica S. Lam, Ravi Sethi, and Jeffrey Ullman – Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools Andrew Appel – Modern Compiler Implementation in ML, Modern Compiler Implementation in Java, Modern Compiler Implementation in C, and Compiling with Continuations Keith D. Cooper and Linda Torczon – Engineering a Compiler David Gries – Compiler Construction for Digital Computers Niklaus Wirth – Compiler Construction and Project Oberon: The Design of an Operating System and Compiler Steven Muchnick – Advanced Compiler Design and Implementation William Wulf, Richard K. Johnson, Charles B. Weinstock, and Charles Geschke – The Design of an Optimizing Compiler
Cryptocurrencies Alex Tapscott – Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin is Changing Money, Business, and the World Andreas Antonopoulos – Mastering Bitcoin, Mastering Ethereum, and The Internet of Money Ben Mezrich – Bitcoin Billionaires David Gerard – Attack of the 50-foot Blockchain Nathaniel Popper – Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money Saifedean Ammous – The Bitcoin Standard Vitalik Buterin – Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchains
Cryptography
Craig P. Bauer – Unsolved! David Kahn (writer) – The Codebreakers John Falconer – Cryptomenysis Patefacta Leo Marks – Between Silk and Cyanide Matt Curtin – Brute Force: Cracking the Data Encryption Standard Simon Singh – The Code Book Steven Levy – Crypto William F. Friedman – Military Cryptanalytics
Unix Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike – The Unix Programming Environment Eric Raymond – The Art of Unix Programming John Lions – A Commentary on the UNIX Operating System Stephen R. Bourne – The Unix System W. Richard Stevens – Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
Linux Bruce Perens – Bruce Perens' Open Source Series Eric S. Raymond – The Cathedral and the Bazaar Gerard Beekmans – Linux from Scratch Glyn Moody – Rebel Code: Linux and the Open Source Revolution Jonathan Oxer – Ubuntu Hacks Kenneth Brown – Samizdat: And Other Issues Regarding the 'Source' of Open Source Code Michael Kerrisk – The Linux Programming Interface Michael W. Lucas – Absolute OpenBSD Olaf Kirch & Terry Dawson – Linux Network Administrator's Guide
Artificial intelligence Allen Newell – Unified Theories of Cognition Brian Christian – The Alignment Problem James Barrat – Our Final Invention James Lovelock – Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence Janelle Shane – You Look Like a Thing and I Love You: How AI Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place Jeff Hawkins – On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines Jonathan Birch – The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI John Brockman – Possible Minds: Twenty-five Ways of Looking at AI Kai-Fu Lee – AI Superpowers Kate Crawford – Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence Max Tegmark – Life 3.0 Marcus Hutter – Universal Artificial Intelligence: Sequential Decisions Based on Algorithmic Probability Martin Ford (author) - Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it Marvin Minsky – The Emotion Machine and Society of Mind Melanie Mitchell – Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans Meredith Broussard – Artificial Unintelligence: How Computers Misunderstand the World Ray Kurzweil – The Age of Intelligent Machines, The Age of Spiritual Machines, The Singularity Is Nearer, How to Create a Mind Richard Dooling – Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ Roger Penrose – The Emperor's New Mind and Shadows of the Mind: A Search for the Missing Science of Consciousness Stan Franklin – Artificial Minds Stuart J. Russell – Human Compatible
Machine learning and deep learning Christopher Bishop – Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Bengio – Deep Learning John Paul Mueller and Luca Massaron - Machine Learning For Dummies Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert – Perceptrons Yann LeCun – Quand La Machine Apprend
Quantum computing
Scott Aaronson – Quantum Computing Since Democritus Jack Hidary – Quantum Computing: An Applied Approach George Johnson – A Shortcut Through Time: The Path to the Quantum Computer N. David Mermin – Quantum Computer Science: An Introduction Michael Nielsen and Isaac Chuang – Quantum Computation and Quantum Information Eleanor Rieffel and Wolfgang Polak – Quantum Computing: A Gentle Introduction Seth Lloyd – Programming the Universe
Other / general programming Andrew S. Tanenbaum – Modern Operating Systems and Operating Systems: Design and Implementation Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas – The Pragmatic Programmer Benjamin C. Pierce – Types and Programming Languages Bertrand Meyer – Object-Oriented Software Construction Bryan O'Sullivan, Don Stewart, and John Goerzen – Real World Haskell Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike – The Practice of Programming Brian W. Kernighan – The AWK Programming Language and The Elements of Programming Style Tony Hoare and He Jifeng – Unifying Theories of Programming Charles Petzold – Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software Chris DiBona – Open Sources and Open Sources 2.0 Chris Wiggins and Matthew L. Jones – How Data Happened Claude Shannon – A Mathematical Theory of Communication Diomidis Spinellis – Code Reading Danny Hillis – The Pattern on the Stone Edward Yourdon – Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer and other publications Ellen Ullman – Close to the Machine Fred Brooks – The Mythical Man-Month Gang of Four – Design Patterns Geoffrey James – The Tao of Programming Gerald M. Weinberg – The Psychology of Computer Programming Gregor Hohpe and Bobby Woolf – Enterprise Integration Patterns Ivo D. Dinov – Data Science and Predictive Analytics Jack Copeland, Jonathan Bowen, Robin Wilson – The Turing Guide Jean E. Sammet – Programming Languages: History and Fundamentals Jean-Raymond Abrial – The B-Book Joel Spolsky – The Best Software Writing I Joshua Pearce – Open-Source Lab Keith Curtis – After the Software Wars Martin Fowler – Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code and Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture Marvin Minsky and Seymour Papert – Perceptrons: An Introduction to Computational Geometry Michael Garey and David S. Johnson – Computers and Intractability Michael Halvorson – Learn BASIC Now Michael Sipser – Introduction to the Theory of Computation Myron W. Krueger – Artificial Reality Narendra M. Thumbhekodige – The Oracle J2EE Companion Neal Stephenson – In the Beginning... Was the Command Line Nicole Forsgren – Accelerate: The Science of Lean Software and DevOps Pekka Himanen and Linus Torvalds (epilogue) – The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the Information Age Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture Paul Graham – Hackers & Painters Peter Norvig – Paradigms of AI Programming Peter Seibel – Coders at Work Randi J. Rost — OpenGL Shading Language and X and MOTIF Quick Reference Guide Richard M. Stallman – Free Software, Free Society Richard P. Gabriel – Patterns of Software and Innovation Happens Elsewhere Robert C. Martin – Clean Code Rodnay Zaks – Programming the Z80 Sam Williams – Free as in Freedom Scott Rosenberg – Dreaming in Code Steve McConnell – Code Complete Stephen Wolfram – A New Kind of Science Tom DeMarco and Tim Lister – Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams William Brown – AntiPatterns: Refactoring Software, Architectures, and Projects in Crisis
Internet Douglas Rushkoff — Cyberia: Life in the Trenches of Hyperspace Jack Goldsmith, Tim Wu — Who Controls the Internet? Illusions of Borderless World Tim Berners-Lee — Weaving the Web
Hackers and hacker culture Bill Blunden – The Rootkit Arsenal Bill Landreth and Howard Rheingold – Out of the Inner Circle Bruce Sterling – The Hacker Crackdown Clifford Stoll – The Cuckoo's Egg Cory Doctorow – Little Brother Douglas Thomas – Hacker Culture Daniel Golden and Renee Dudley – The Ransomware Hunting Team Eric S. Raymond – The New Hacker's Dictionary and Revenge of the Hackers Glyn Moody – Rebel Code Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, and Julie Sussman – Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Hugo Cornwall – The Hacker's Handbook Jon "Smibbs" Erickson – Hacking: The Art of Exploitation Joseph Menn – Fatal System Error Julian Assange – Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet Kevin Mitnick – Ghost in the Wires and The Art of Intrusion Kevin Poulsen – Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground Linus Torvalds and David Diamond – Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary Malcolm Nance – The Plot to Hack America Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution Sam Williams – Free as in Freedom Scott J. Shapiro – Fancy Bear Goes Phishing Sean Bodmer, Max Kilger, Gregory Carpenter, and Jade Jones – Reverse Deception Steven Levy – Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution Suelette Dreyfus – Underground: Tales of Hacking, Madness and Obsession on the Electronic Frontier William Cheswick and Steven M. Bellovin – Firewalls and Internet Security
See also American Graphics Institute - Educational content Category:Computer books Head First (book series) Linux Documentation Project List of computer magazines List of programmers List of computer science journals List of mathematics books List of software programming journals List of artificial intelligence journals List of books in computational geometry Norton Guides Programming education Prentice Hall International Series in Computer Science Wikibooks computer programming resources
Textbooks Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach Artificial Intelligence (textbook) Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools Computer Graphics: Principles and Practice Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming - MIT Press Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science Core Python Programming Essentials of Programming Languages How to Design Programs How to Solve it by Computer Introduction to Algorithms Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation Lisp (textbook) Operating System Concepts Principles of Compiler Design Principles of Model Checking Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation Quantum Computation and Quantum Information Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering The Visualization Handbook Walls and Mirrors
Essays / other Satoshi Nakamoto — The Bitcoin Whitepaper Electronic Workshops in Computing Handbook of Automated Reasoning — survey articles on automated reasoning by MIT Press Lecture Notes in Computer Science Chris Lattner — LLVM: A Compilation Framework for Lifelong Program Analysis & Transformation No Silver Bullet The Hacker Manifesto Bill Gates — "The Internet Tidal Wave" The Magic Cauldron David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH) — The Rails Doctrine The Zen of Python Techno-Optimist Manifesto Turtle Geometry
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