Good books about (famous/known) programmers ?
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Is there a reading list of famous/known programmers or (CS) engineers or ? biographies or related ? A friend ask about some suggestions, and other than Bill Gates or Steve Jobs, I really don't have a clue. Any suggestions ? Thanks, Max.
I'd rather be phishing!
K&R comes to mind. Best book ever crafted! The first to introduce to the world a "Hello, World" in pure C :cool:
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Well, it's not in book form, but there's Marc Clifton[^] and in e-book format, also by Marc Clifton: Syncfusion Free Ebooks | Web Servers Succinctly[^] Syncfusion Free Ebooks | Unit Testing Succinctly[^] Syncfusion free ebooks | Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly[^] :rolleyes: Marc
Imperative to Functional Programming Succinctly Contributors Wanted for Higher Order Programming Project! Learning to code with python is like learning to swim with those little arm floaties. It gives you undeserved confidence and will eventually drown you. - DangerBunny
Real cool dude, seriously :cool:
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Umm, not sure what Bill Gates has personally programmed by himself except maybe QBasic and Steve Jobs didn't do programming at all. They were business people and entrepreneurs. They used to hire programmers.
it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.
Um, he and his mates were the ones that made "writing code in your Mother's garage, while blasting out hard rock" famous, when they wrote MSDOS* * You can skip googling the MSDOS/QDOS-86 thing. I know. And everyone here should be aware that upgrading something like QDOS-86 to become MSDOS (and to be used on different hardware, which was much more of a minefield, back then) was no small thing.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Ada Lovelace? [^] (Sorry, couldn't help it.)