Books identified as useful no matter how old they are, since they illustrate concepts that are still valid to computer science. - The Art of Computer Programming, Donald Knuth, 1973 (and earlier)
- The Pragmatic Programmer, Andrew Hunt & Dave Thomas, 1999
- Kernighan and Plauger's Software Tools.
- Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code. Martin Fowler, 1999
- A Book on C, (first edition) by Al Kelley and Ira Pohl.
- The Design of Everyday Things (Donald A Norman), first published in 1988.
- The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, by Edward Tufte.
- Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp. Peter Norvig/1992
- The UNIX C Shell Field Guide -- Great read!
- The UNIX Programming Environment by Kernghan & Pike
- Fred Brooks' The Mythical Man-Month, 2nd ed. published 1995
- Programming Perl (O'Reilly Camel book), 1995
- Dragon Book by Alfred V. Aho, Ravi Sethi
- "The C Programming Language" (K&R2) (1988) by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie.
- Numerical Methods that Work.
- Design Patterns Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software - GOF (1995)
- Introduction to Algorithms, 2nd edition (2001) - MIT Press
- Martin Fowler's "UML Distilled"
- Introduction to Algorithms by Cormen, Leiserson, and Rivest
Links and cleanup forthcoming.
Compiled from: - Stack Overflow (upvoted answers)
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