ACM Classic Books Series

This list of classic books is the result of a poll ACM conducted where members named their favorite computer science books.

Good list. Bar the last two, which I have nothing against, the list consists of favorites of mine. It is always nice to see how many classics of CS come from work on programming languages. Not a surprise for anyone here, of course, but not always acknowledged. While we are on the subject of classic books, check out Luke's twitter poll here.

By Ehud Lamm at 2015年08月16日 06:24 | History | Misc Books | other blogs | 17425 reads

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The list is available at http://dl.acm.org/classics.cfm.

By gasche at Sun, 2015年08月16日 07:19 | login or register to post comments

Thanks. Fixed.

Thanks. Fixed.

By Ehud Lamm at Sun, 2015年08月16日 07:48 | login or register to post comments

My Book List.

I thought I would have a quick look through my bookshelves and see which books I thought were classics (or future classics?). I have a lot of books, but I am going to avoid anything about programming in language 'X'. I think a lot of books are really too specific in scope to be classics.

If I had to pick only two 'books' (TAOCP box set) it would be:

1. Stepanov, A. (2009) Elements of Programming: Addison-Wesley.
2. Knuth D.E. (1997) The Art of Computer Programming, 3rd edition: Addison-Wesley.

Other books that seem like they could be classics:

3. Pierce, B.C. (2002) Types and Programming Languages: MIT Press
4. Pierce, B.C. ed. (2005) Advanced Topics in Types and Programming Languages: MIT Press.
5. Mitchell J.C. (1996) Foundations for Programming Languages: MIT Press.
6. Chrystal, G. (1886) Algebra, An Elementary Text-Book: AMS Chelsea Publishing.
7. Tarjan, R.E. (1983) Data Structures and Network Algorithms: SIAM books.
8. Foley, J.D. & Van Dam, A. (1982) Fundamentals of Interactive Computer Graphics: Addison-Wesley.
9. Russell S. & Norvig P. (2010) Artificial Intelligence, A Modern Approach, 3rd edition: Pearson.
10. Hennessy J.L. & Patterson D.A. (2012) Computer Architecture, A Quantitative Approach, 5th edition: Morgan Kaufmann.

By Keean Schupke at Sun, 2015年08月16日 09:11 | login or register to post comments

Introduction to Algorithms

Cormen, Thomas H.; Leiserson, Charles E., Rivest, Ronald L., Stein, Clifford (2009) [1990]. Introduction to Algorithms (3rd ed.). MIT Press and McGraw-Hill. ISBN 0-262-03384-4.

By marco at Sun, 2015年08月16日 10:45 | login or register to post comments

While I love most of the

While I love most of the books on the ACM list, I'll deviate sharply from the early trend and mention The Mythical Man-Month and Peopleware. The context of programming is as important as its content.

I also disagree that classics must be generalized. The oldest Western classic work is about a specific war.

By johnwcowan at Sun, 2015年08月16日 16:46 | login or register to post comments

Did you see my response to

Did you see my response to Luke's poll? :-)

By Ehud Lamm at Sun, 2015年08月16日 17:22 | login or register to post comments

Seems the same list as in

Seems the same list as in 2008.

By Ehud Lamm at Tue, 2015年08月18日 13:44 | login or register to post comments

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