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Re:Ask HN: Good all-round CS book by pclark on Sunday February 08, 2009 @07:16AM (#472114)
The Computer and the Brain, by John von Neumann

Introduction to Algorithms, by Thomas H. Cormen

The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth [naturally!]

Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines, by Marvin L. Minsky

Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter

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Re:Ask HN: Good all-round CS book by jacquesm on Sunday February 08, 2009 @08:25AM (#472142)
Second The Art of Computer Programming, definitely not Godel, Escher, Bach (though it makes for interesting reading).

I really liked 'Introduction to Algorithms' by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest and Stein, MIT press.

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