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Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.37 � 22,749 ratings � published 2007
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 � 23,200 ratings � published 1999
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 � 16,697 ratings � published 2011
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.47 � 4,802 ratings � published 1984
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.40 � 10,188 ratings � published 1999
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 � 14,760 ratings � published 1975
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 � 11,757 ratings � published 1994
Thinking in Java (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 � 2,214 ratings � published 1998
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.13 � 33,622 ratings � published 2016
Effective Java (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.51 � 7,985 ratings � published 2001
Introduction to Algorithms (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 � 9,178 ratings � published 1989
The C Programming Language (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 � 11,111 ratings � published 1978
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 � 8,729 ratings � published 1999
The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.74 � 6,312 ratings � published 2015
Biomedical Informatics: Computer Applications in Health Care and Biomedicine (Health Informatics)
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avg rating 3.86 � 69 ratings � published 2006
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 � 20,050 ratings � published 2014
The Web Application Hacker's Handbook: Discovering and Exploiting Security Flaws (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.23 � 1,211 ratings � published 2007
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 � 9,400 ratings � published 1993
Test-Driven Development: By Example (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 � 4,351 ratings � published 2002
Head First Design Patterns (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 � 8,874 ratings � published 2004
Algorithms (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.42 � 1,808 ratings � published 1983
Speech and Language Processing: An Introduction to Natural Language Processing, Computational Linguistics and Speech Recognition (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 � 623 ratings � published 2000
The Hacker Ethic: A Radical Approach to the Philosophy of Business (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 � 773 ratings � published 1999
An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R (Springer Texts in Statistics)
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avg rating 4.59 � 2,277 ratings � published 2013
Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 � 1,096 ratings � published 2002
Purely Functional Data Structures (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 � 666 ratings � published 1996
Domain-Driven Design: Tackling Complexity in the Heart of Software (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 � 5,685 ratings � published 2003
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 � 4,973 ratings � published 2021
Hello World: Being Human in the Age of Algorithms (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 � 11,305 ratings � published 2018
Mastering JavaScript Design Patterns (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 � 33 ratings � published 2014
Cracking the Coding Interview: 150 Programming Questions and Solutions (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 � 6,847 ratings � published 2008
Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters (ebook)
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avg rating 4.27 � 2,754 ratings � published 2019
Java Concurrency in Practice (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.48 � 2,885 ratings � published 2005
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 � 2,203 ratings � published 2000
Computer Organization & Design: The Hardware/Software Interface (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 � 1,682 ratings � published 1993
Nursing Informatics and the Foundation of Knowledge (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.37 � 38 ratings � published 2011
Nursing Informatics: Scope and Standards of Practice (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.65 � 40 ratings � published 2007
Permanent Record (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 � 55,870 ratings � published 2019
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 � 28,877 ratings � published 2016
Operating System Concepts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 � 2,184 ratings � published 1985
How We Became Posthuman: Virtual Bodies in Cybernetics, Literature, and Informatics (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 � 873 ratings � published 1999
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence (Audio CD)
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avg rating 4.00 � 26,391 ratings � published 2017
Parallel Distributed Processing: Explorations in the Microstructure of Cognition: Volume 1: Foundations (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 � 62 ratings � published 1986
C++ Primer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 � 980 ratings � published 1989
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd Ed. (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.39 � 8,532 ratings � published 1983
The Algorithm Design Manual (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.35 � 2,653 ratings � published 1997
Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.21 � 2,128 ratings � published 1993
Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 � 9,845 ratings � published 1987
Soft Skills: The Software Developer's Life Manual (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 � 2,820 ratings � published
Interactive Data Visualization for the Web: An Introduction to Designing with D3 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 � 532 ratings � published 2013
“Leibniz wanted to combine physics, mathematics, logic, and philosophy, and he would no doubt have loved this joke:
An engineer, a mathematician, a logician, and a philosopher were traveling through Scotland when they saw a black sheep through the window of the train.
"Aha", says the engineer, "I see that Scottish sheep are black."
"Hmm", says the mathematician, "You mean that some Scottish sheep are black."
"No", says the logician, "All we know is that there is at least one black sheep in Scotland."
"And even", the philosopher continued, "The only thing we can be really sure of is that the side facing us is black.”
― Homo Informatix
An engineer, a mathematician, a logician, and a philosopher were traveling through Scotland when they saw a black sheep through the window of the train.
"Aha", says the engineer, "I see that Scottish sheep are black."
"Hmm", says the mathematician, "You mean that some Scottish sheep are black."
"No", says the logician, "All we know is that there is at least one black sheep in Scotland."
"And even", the philosopher continued, "The only thing we can be really sure of is that the side facing us is black.”
― Homo Informatix
“Freud described three great historical wounds to the primary narcissism of the self-centered human subject, who tries to hold panic at bay by the fantasy of human exceptionalism.
First is the Copernican wound that removed Earth itself, man’s home world, from the center of the cosmos and indeed paved the way for that cosmos to burst open into a universe of inhumane, nonteleological times and spaces. Science made that decentering cut.
The second wound is the Darwinian, which put Homo sapiens firmly in the world of other critters, all trying to make an earthly living and so evolving in relation to one another without the sureties of directional signposts that culminate in Man. Science inflicted that cruel cut too.
The third wound is the Freudian, which posited an unconscious that undid the primacy of conscious processes, including the reason that comforted Man with his unique excellence, with dire consequences for teleology once again. Science seems to hold that blade too.
I want to add a fourth wound, the informatic or cyborgian, which infolds organic and technological flesh and so melds that Great Divide as well.”
― When Species Meet
First is the Copernican wound that removed Earth itself, man’s home world, from the center of the cosmos and indeed paved the way for that cosmos to burst open into a universe of inhumane, nonteleological times and spaces. Science made that decentering cut.
The second wound is the Darwinian, which put Homo sapiens firmly in the world of other critters, all trying to make an earthly living and so evolving in relation to one another without the sureties of directional signposts that culminate in Man. Science inflicted that cruel cut too.
The third wound is the Freudian, which posited an unconscious that undid the primacy of conscious processes, including the reason that comforted Man with his unique excellence, with dire consequences for teleology once again. Science seems to hold that blade too.
I want to add a fourth wound, the informatic or cyborgian, which infolds organic and technological flesh and so melds that Great Divide as well.”
― When Species Meet
