Books thread

Books thread.
Post your favourite text books.

I'll start.
K&R is a classic programming book. It's very well written and very concise.
Probably the best book for a programmer to learn C.

I don't care what book it is if I can't find a DRM-free download.

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

SICP is a magical spell book.
Probably the best book for a young gentiletouhou to learn to conjure the spirits of the computer with her spells.

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00GX2B8F0

Artificial Intelligence in German

https://aa5new.wordpress.com/2015/05/13/mindforth-ist-echte-wissenschaft

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/comp.lang.javascript/bo3Am-5Qqp8/roGgi6oDJyYJ

>>2
http://bookzz.org

>>2
out

>>2
"Don't buy from amazon" -- Richard Stallman

http://www.amazon.com/Free-Software-Society-Selected-Stallman/dp/1441436200

Amazon sells a book written by Richard Stallman. LOL pwnage. Don't buy from amazon, but please buy the book on amazon by richard stallman. How did amazon slip that one through the cracks; they sell a book by their biggest critic and enemy, LULZ. Pwned.

>>7
Who's pwned? RMS Marx Stalin, or Amazon?
Because it seems to me RIMMUS has far more reason to be butthurt.

>>7

Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman is a book by Joshua Gay
book by Joshua Gay

Wow, shit.

Does Stallman even has an issue with buying physical books from Amazon?

>>10
I don't know what Stallman says but Amazon is shit: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/amazon-and-wikileaks-first-amendment-only-strong

>>11
Expecting amazon to host wikileaks is like expecting hitler to carry the gay pride flag with dildos hanging off his body through a klan meeting.

>>11
Should we be mad at Amazon, or at Homeland Security though? I'd honestly cave in if Homeland Security made a veiled threat against me.

>>1
Books are useless. Fuck the books. Hack and build your own experience. Then read a book and say "yeah, actually I do this already".

>>13
Benjamin Franklin will spit on you in the afterlife.

Learn you an Anus

http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0305049

A necessary prerequisite for anyone hoping to learn haskell.

>>17
Except that it isn't. I've never did no fancy book learning. Yet, I've written hundreds of thousands of lines of haskell. It was my exclusive language of choice for many years. Its type system and idea of purely functional programming embedded itself in my memory forever, but I won't spend a significant time with haskell anymore.

The overall ecosystem is shit and filled with compromise. Only writing web apps slightly improved since I started. (https://github.com/Gabriel439/post-rfc/blob/master/sotu.md) But hey, pure functions.

Nowadays, it's a gamut of lisp, c, c++, rust, javascript, python, ruby, perl, php, java, go, c#, asm (arm, mips, x86), haskell, ocaml, scala, idris, clojure, scheme, and erlang. Yeah, I'm serious. I said fuck it and jumped on all the band wagons. Life is more interesting that way.

With the exception of lisp-like macros, I stopped caring about language features. They're all shit in their own way. With that came a sense of freedom because I can just drop into any ecosystem and use readily available tools. I like being lazy, and I have haskell to thank for that pursuit.
THANK YOU, HASKELL.

>>18
FAAGGGGOOOT

The Science of Computing Shaping a Discipline

This is a very good book ^^^ because it describes the ongoing war of Formal methods (verification) versus unit testing (hype). The book tries to resolve the two and sees the advantage of both of them, although formal verification almost seems like a pipe dream. An A.I. may eventually be able to formally verify a complex program (like an operating system) only if the specification can be verified itself! So you end up with Godel's incompleteness theorem.

You solve the anus incompleteness problem by inserting a penis.

^ the type of people who go into programming ^^

Damn, I thought /prog/ would be full of good book recommendations.
The thread would have been on old /prog/

>>23
Martin Gardener describes some ideas for universes to create in these books:
The Colossal Book of Mathematics
The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems

Forth Programmer's Handbook
Structure and Interpretation of Programs That Are In the Memory Banks of a Computer and are Run On A Computer And Written In Lisp, by the Consman
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies by Douggie Buoy
Analogy Making as Perception - A Computer Model
Let Over Lambada by Hoiti Toiti
The Programming of Articifial Intelligenza in Communist Lisp - A Practical Maneuver

You know, that sort of thing.

PAIP

if PAIP told us a lot, then A.I certainly would have succeeded years ago. Do we need another book? Or did A.I. already succeed in 1984, and we are the A.I.

*burp*

>>18

x86

Disgusting.

Practical Guide to Structured Systems Design

PAIP is about Common Lisp, not A.I.