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Great Computer Science Books

Bentley, Jon Louis. More Programming Pearls: Confessions of a Coder. Addison-Wesley, 1988

---. Programming Pearls. Association for Computing Machinery, 1986. ISBN 0201500191.

---. Writing Efficient Programs. Prentice Hall, 1982. ISBN 013970251.

Boehm, Barry W. Software Engineering Economics. Prentice Hall, 1981. ISBN 0138221227.

Brand, Stewart. How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built. Penguin USA, 1995. ISBN 0140139966.

Brooks, Frederick P., Jr. The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering. Addison-Wesley, 1995. ISBN 0201835959.

Carroll, Lewis. Alice in Wonderland/Through the Looking Glass. Smithmark Publishing, 1996. ISBN 0831766948.

Demarco, Tom and Timothy Lister. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams. Dorset House, 1987. ISBN 0932633056.

Hofstadter, Douglas R. Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid. Vintage Books, 1989. ISBN 0394756827.

Kernighan, Brian W. and P.J. Plauger. Software Tools in Pascal. Addison-Wesley, 1981. ISBN 0201036681.

Knuth, Donald E. Selected Papers on Computer Science. Cambridge University Press, 1995. ISBN 1881526925.

---. The Art of Computer Programming: Fundamental Algorithms, Volume 1, Third Edition. Addison-Wesley, 1974. ISBN 0201896834.

---. The Art of Computer Programming: Seminumerical Algorithms, Volume 2, Third Edition. Addison-Wesley, 1981. ISBN 0201896842.

---. The Art of Computer Programming: Sorting and Searching, Volume 3, Second Edition. Addison-Wesley, 1997. ISBN 0201896850.

Minsky, Marvin Lee. Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines. Prentice Hall, 1967. ISBN 0131655639.

Patterson, David A., John L. Hennessy, and David Goldberg. Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach, Second Edition. Morgan Kaufman Publishers, 1996. ISBN 1558603298.

Petzold, Charles. Programming Windows 3.1, Third Edition. Microsoft Press, 1992. ISBN 1556153953.

Stevens, W. Richard. Unix Network Programming. Prentice Hall, 1990. ISBN 0139498761.

Strunk, William and E.B. White. Elements of Style, Third Edition. Allyn & Bacon, 1979. ISBN 0024181900.