A nice lazy saturday afternoon
Just kicking back on the couch, listening to Tool and painstakingly working my way through the Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. As David, Gavin, Rasmus and Sterling have all commented, it is about time that I become a real programmer. :)
So far, the book is amazingly engaging, though a rather dense read. It has taken me 3 days of evening reading to work my way though the first 36 pages, along with the prefaces and questions/examples.
Over the last few weeks, I have also been reading the much lighter "Introduction to Computer Science" by Francis Scheid. This text from 1970 is a surprisingly good read - the author has done an excellent job of laying out the fundamental low-level principles of computing.
The title is long out of print - however, if you happen to spot it in a second hand book shop, I would highly recommend it. I picked my copy up at a Salvation Army thrift shop for one Canadian dollar (along with a 1st edition copy of the K + R C book, Lispcraft and a few other older CS books :)
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Posted on Saturday, January 11th, 2003 at 0:00
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