Best Books For Computer Science. Tracy Kidders The Soul of a New Machine is one of the few must-read histories about the world of Computer Science. The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths.
Ideas That Created the Future. First published in 1981 Kidders classic remains one of the most highly regarded books about computers to ever hit the shelves. This book is state-of-the-art as Bill Gates once said If you think youre a really good programmer read Art of Computer Programming.
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Code by Charles Petzold. There is also the Data Science category so if you are interested in Machine Learning Computer Vision Deep Learning NLP or Artificial Intelligence in general this can be a source of top-class knowledge for you. It is an easy quick read and is accessible even for non-Computer Scientists. Plain language plenty of additional tips and annotated code make it a really good first computer science book.