On Thu, Dec 20, 2001 at 11:26:18AM +0800, Brian Baquiran wrote: > My personal favorite CS book is Structure and Interpretation of Computer > Programs by Abelson and Sussman which is used at MIT. The complete book > is available for free online. It's actually fun to read; unlike Knuth > which is very dry and academic. >
just did a search for it and found: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html after reading a chapter - yup it's damned good! it uses applied simple math, so math-lovers can relate. nice quote here: A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they aren't flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it. Marvin Minsky, ``Why Programming Is a Good Medium for Expressing Poorly-Understood and Sloppily-Formulated Ideas'' _ Philippine Linux Users Group. Web site and archives at http://plug.linux.org.ph To leave: send "unsubscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To subscribe to the Linux Newbies' List: send "subscribe" in the body to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
