Reading List

Pages read: 463 as of the beginning of August 2023

1. The Design and Evolution of C++, by Bjarne Stroustrup


2. Beautiful C++, by J. Guy Davidson & Kate Gregory


3. The Elements of C++ Style, by Misfeldt, Bumgardner, & Gray


4. C++ Pocket Reference, by Kyle Loudon




5. Modern C++ Programming with Test Driven Development, by Jeff Langr


6. Building Your Own Compiler with C++, by Jim Holmes


7. C++20 for Lazy Programmers, by Will Briggs


8. Algorithms in C++, Parts 1-4, by Robert Sedgewick with Christopher J. Van Wick




9. Unix Haters Handbook (with a chapter on C++, "The COBOL of the 90s"), edited by Garfinkel, Weise, & Strassmann


10. Jason Turner's Object Lifetime Puzzlers, by Jason Turner


11. The Black Art of 3D Game Programming


12. Make: Jumpstarting C, by Wolfram Donat

Pages read: 542 as of the beginning of August, 2023

1. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid, by Douglas Hofstadter


2. A Philosophy of Software Design, by John Ousterhout


3. Abstracting Away the Machine: The History of the Fortran Programming Language, by Mark Jones Lorenzo


4. Selected Writings on Computing: A Personal Perspective, by Edsger W. Dijkstra




5. The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. I: Fundamental Algorithms, by Donald Knuth


6. The Art of Computer Programming, Vol. III: Sorting & Searching, by Donald Knuth


7. Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About, by Donald Knuth


8. The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants, by Prusinkiewicz & Lindenmayer




9. The Design of Well-Structured & Correct Programs, by Arbib & Alagic


10. Chess Skill in Man & Machine, edited by R.W. Frey


11. The Science of Programming, by Gries


12. A Basis for Theoretical Computer Science




13. Compiler Construction, by Waite & Goos


14. The Design & Construction of Compilers, by Hunter


15. Software Tools, by Kernighan & Plauger


16. Software Tools with Pascal, by Kernighan & Plauger




17. Millions, Billions, Zillions, by Brian Kernighan


18. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, by Petzold


19. Blackwell's Philosophy of Technology: The Technological Condition: An Anthology, edited by Scharff & Dusek


20. Unix: The Textbook, by Sarwar, Koretsky, & Sarwar




21. The Unix Hater's Handbook, edited by Garfinkel, Weise, & Strassmann


22. Computers, Ethics, & Society, by Ermann, Williams, & Shauf


23. Ethics in Information Technology, by Reynolds


24. Seven Web Frameworks in Seven Weeks, by Moffitt & Daoud




25. Seven Concurrency Models in Seven Weeks, by Butcher


26. Introduction to Languages, Machines, & Logic, by Parkes


27. The Philosophy of Set Theory: A Historical Introduction to Cantor's Paradise, by Mary Tiles


28. Set Theory: An Open Introduction, edited by Tim Button




29. Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, by Bertrand Russell


30. A Realistic Theory of Categories, by Roderick Chisholm


31. How to Speak Tech: The Non-Techie's Guide to Key Technology Concepts, by Vinay Trivedi & Others


32. Oxford's Very Short Introduction: Godel's Theorem, by A.W. Moore

Pages read: [more than 209, but I haven't added it up yet]

1. The Go Programming Language, by Donovan & Kernighan


2. Introducing Go, by Doxsey


3. Programming in Modula-2, by Niklaus Wirth


4. Introduction to occam 2 on the Transputer, by Brookes & Stewart




5. A Fortran Coloring Book, by Roger Kaufman


6. Adventure in Prolog, by Dennis Merritt


7. Lisp, by Horn & Winston


8. Common Lisp, by Guy Steele




9. Learning Perl


10. Perl Programming


11. Higher Order Perl


12. Mastering Regular Expressions




13. Programing Erlang, by Joe Armstrong


14. Erlang & OTP in Action


15. Erlang Programming


16. Building Web Applications with Erlang, by Zachary Kessin




17. Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, by Bruce Tate


18. Elements of ML Programming, by Ullman


19. APL: The Langauge & Its Usage


20. sed & awk Pocket Reference




21. Perl Pocket Reference

1. Learn C++ Quickly, by Code Quickly (audiobook, x3)


2. The Second Age of Computer Science: from algol genes to neural nets, by Subrata Dasgupta (audiobook)


3. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, by Thomas S. Kuhn (first physical copy, recently audiobook)


4. Coders At Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming, by Peter Seibel (audiobook, x3)




5. Becoming an Ethical Hacker, by Gary Rivlin (audiobook)


6. Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution that Made China Modern, by Jing Tsu (audiobook)


7. Oxford's Very Short Introduction to Logic, by Graham Priest (first physical copy, recently audiobook x2)


8. Oxford's Very Short Introduction to Cryptography, by Fred C. Piper & Sean Murphy (audiobook, x3)



mostly unfinished Audiobooks:




Designing Data-Intensive Applications, by Martin Kleppmann


Fundamentals of Software Architecture, by Richards & Ford (audiobook)


Understanding Software, by Max Kanat-Alexander (audiobook)


Software Engineering at Google, Titus Winters, et al (audiobook)




A Vulnerable System: The History of Information Security in the Computer Age, by Andrew J. Stewart (audiobook)


How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone, by Brian McCullough (audiobook)


Oxford's Very Short Introduction to Fractals, by Falconer (audiobook)


Oxford's Very Short Introduction to Game Theory, by Binmore (audiobook)




Oxford's Very Short Introduction to Numbers, by Higgins (audiobook)


The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series: Robots, by Jordan (audiobook)


Code Girls: The Untold Story of the American Women Code Breakers of World War II, by Liza Mundy (audiobook)