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Classic computer science text and papers on the web

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Classic computer science text and papers on the web

Mark Watson
Oct 29, 2005
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I have seen the old Frank Sinatra movie that my wife is watching so I decided to read tonight. I still appreciate my rather large personal library because physical books, journals, and reprints are more fun to read than balancing a laptop. That said, I thought that it would be interesting to share some of my favorite links to classic computer science texts and papers:

  • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is arguably the best single text book

  • Original 'Lambda Papers' by Guy Steele and Gerald Sussman

  • General reading on Kolmogorov Complexity; for example: 1 2

This is just a sampling taken from my bookmarks. The ACM has a program to make classic texts available. Other must-study 'classics' like "Introduction to Algorithms" (Cormen, et. al.) are still too new (first edition 1991) to be freely available.

I find it interesting to re-read material that I used many years ago - you get a different take on papers and texts after years of experience, making them interesting in new ways.

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