From: Chad Perrin <code@...>
Date: 2011-06-11T01:36:18+09:00
Subject: Re: Classic Computer Science Books

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On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:33:43PM +0900, Patrick Lynch wrote:
>
> Logic:

The list that followed brings up an interesting point -- that logic is an
academic subject that is (I believe) invaluable to programmers and
computer scientists, but is not a requirement in any computer science
degree program I've seen.  I've only read one logic book, myself, and it
was the textbook for a symbolic logic course in college.  The instructor
was, bar none, the best teacher I have ever had.  The book is *The Logic
Book*, by Bergmann, Moor, and Nelson; I don't know how it compares to
other texts on the subject (as I said, I have not read any others), but
it did the job.  I'd recommend, to anyone who wants to be a better
programmer, find yourself a tolerable book about symbolic logic and read
it.

Some other books that occurred to me as interesting reads that help out
with becoming a better programmer are *Learning Perl* (the llama book),
*Intermediate Perl* (the alpaca book, originally called *Perl Objects,
References, and Modules*), and *Seven Languages in Seven Weeks*.  SICP is
an incredibly dense text that can be of great help to a sufficiently
diligent reader -- though I have unfortunately not been diligent enough.
I've stalled out partway through both times I tried tackling it.

I might mention some more later, if more books occur to me.

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Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]

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