Whats a good book on the fundamentals of Computer Science

Posted by trustfundbaby on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @01:58PM
from the self-post dept.

I know its a general question, but I just want to find out if there a book out there that deals with stuff like automata theory, concurrency control, algorithms, Dependency injection, optimistic locking, lazy loading, searching, sorting, exceptions ... just good ol' CS concepts.

I have a decent Computer Science background but wasn't a CS major (I did Computer Engineer but gravitated to programming and networking courses) so I feel like my fundamentals are not as strong as they should be.

I have been programming professionally (C#, PHP, Ruby/Rails etc) for years, but want to become much much better at the fundamentals.

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Re:Whats a good book on the fundamentals of Computer Science by tjr on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @03:02PM (#2199070)

I'm not aware of a single book that covers all of those topics well. The New Turing Omnibus might be a good place to start for getting an overview of CS topics, but since you say that you want to become "much much better at the fundamentals", you might consider a serious study of Knuth's Art of Computer Programming.

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Re:Whats a good book on the fundamentals of Computer Science by eeagerdeveloper on Wednesday February 09, 2011 @02:11PM (#2198845)

The defacto Algorithms and Data-structures book http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0262033844/

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