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Algorithmics: The Spirit of Computing (3rd Edition)
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All the comments and stories posted to Hacker News that reference this book.My adviser had suggested me a fantastic book for bedside reading - "Algorithmics: The Spirit of Computing" by David Harel (https://www.amazon.com/Algorithmics-Spirit-Computing-David-H...).
⬐ emmanueloga_I discovered this book by looking for more information on state charts vs state machines. Harel writing also got me interested in Topology:"Topological features are a lot more fundamental than geometric ones, in that topology is a more basic branch of mathematics than geometry in terms of symmetries and mappings. One thing being inside another is more basic than it being smaller or larger than the other, or than one being a rectangle and the other a circle. Being connected to something is more basic than being green or yellow or being drawn with a thick line or with a thin line." [1]
The New Turing Omnibus: https://www.amazon.com/New-Turing-Omnibus-Sixty-Six-Excursio...Algorithmics: The Spirit of Computing: https://www.amazon.com/Algorithmics-Spirit-Computing-David-H...
⬐ happy-go-lucky+1 for The New Turing Omnibus
The book Algorithmics: The Spirit of Computing doesn't read like a textbook to me, and it's quite interesting.http://www.amazon.com/Algorithmics-Spirit-Computing-David-Ha...
The New Turing Omnibus
http://www.amazon.com/The-New-Turing-Omnibus-Excursions/dp/0...
is also good, as is Code by Charles Petzold.
http://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Softwa...
AFTER EDIT: While I thought about the first three books I mentioned, I thought of another, Write Great Code, Volume 1: Understanding the Machine by Randall Hyde.
http://www.amazon.com/Write-Great-Code-Understanding-ebook/d...
⬐ jh3I've see Code in B&N but never did more than quickly skim through it. And I've never heard of the other two. Thanks!