Re:Great programming and CS books you've never heard of
by Jach on Tuesday June 01, 2010 @11:29PM
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I actually own Concrete Mathematics. Though I haven't read through it very seriously, what I have read has been excellent. (It was a great companion book for my Discrete Math course, whose book wasn't very good. (Discrete Mathematics and its Applications))
I might have heard of CTM before, but that's about it from this list.
Re:Great programming and CS books you've never heard of
by revolvingcur on Tuesday June 01, 2010 @11:38PM
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I hated using the Rosen book in undergrad. Concrete Mathematics would have been fine as the sole text for such a course.
Re:Great programming and CS books you've never heard of
by pmiller2 on Wednesday June 02, 2010 @01:20AM
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The great thing about Concrete Mathematics is that you can use it for what it is: a really cool "grab bag" of techniques.
Re:Great programming and CS books you've never heard of
by silentbicycle on Tuesday June 01, 2010 @11:52PM
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Concrete Mathematics is fun. (You might also like _Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers_. And http://projecteuler.net !)
The HOPL book has a big paper about the history of Lisp and dozens of pages of Chuck Moore, Icon, and Prolog AI chatting in French. What more do you need? (Also: Smalltalk. C.)
CTM is the best thing ever.
I've heard of the third one, Concrete Mathematics.
I vaguely remember reading of the 4th, HOPL 2, and the 5th, Computer Organisation and Design. As far as I recall, they are good actually.