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| Ask HN: I'm looking for a good book on the fundamentals of CS | ||
| recommended by 2 users | 2021 | 253 points by Karsteski | learning to code | original thread | | ||
I'm at the beginning of my software dev career, and as I didn't go to school for anything related (B.Sc. Chemistry), I feel like I really would like to have the fundamentals of CS down. Doubly so as I would like to go into the field of VR, and right now I'm working on my own toy rendering engine, which I feel is really exposing my lack of knowledge... Anyways, any suggestions welcome. Ideally it'd be more digestible than just a plain textbook but I'm open to anything. I imagine either way it'll be a tough but great read to work through :) | ||
| 2 users recommended this thread. What they said: |
| Rzor Sep 19, 2024 | on: Ask HN: Book recommendations for CS fundamentals for a… | context |
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Jtsummers Jan 13, 2025 | on: Ask HN: What's the best book you've read regarding software… | context
Kind of hard to search for because the titles are all over the place, but here are some of the past book discussions I've found that had a lot of comments and good suggestions and discussion. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41387062 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35929112 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32130578 |
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| 1. | GPG and Me (thoughtcrime.org) | |
| recommended by 1 user | 2015 | 588 points by jashkenas | original thread | | ||
| 2. | Law Enforcement’s “Warrior” Problem (harvardlawreview.org) | |
| recommended by 2 users | 2015 | 116 points by sergeant3 | original thread | | ||
| 3. | “arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras.” (comment) | |
| recommended by 1 user | 2016 | justin66 on: Letters between Backus and Dijkstra (1979) | original thread | | ||
| 4. | Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud (inkandswitch.com) | |
| recommended by 1 user | 2019 | 566 points by c-cube | original thread | | ||
| 5. | Local-first software: you own your data, in spite of the cloud (blog.acolyer.org) | |
| recommended by 1 user | 2019 | 748 points by godelmachine | original thread | | ||
Check the threads below and this could also help: https://missing.csail.mit.edu/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21919465
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29498220
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13014900
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34854488