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What is one book to read if you want to have a solid background in programming?

  • Writer: davidcarew19
    davidcarew19
  • Mar 30, 2020
  • 1 min read

Updated: Apr 12, 2020


To me, the answer to this is easy, to wit:



by acknowledged genius and much-honored professor (now retired I believe),

Donald E. Knuth. Note the name of the work (not complete in the URL above) is:

"The Art of Computer Programming"


OTOH, do *not* expect an easy time reading this book —- It is 4 volumes (so far), of a projected 7 volumes, I believe.


When Bill Gates was president and CEO of Microsoft, he said that anyone who read this book, and understood it, should definitely send him a resume. It is (for me anyway) a life’s work just to read this book, and do some reasonable subset of the exercises at the end of each chapter. I am still engaged in that activity, (off and on)…


 
 
 

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