Best Computer Books For The Smart

You'll remember last week, I asked for recommendations of the Best Websites for developers. This was a -great- thread and in the story, I mentioned that I was planning on doing the same regarding books this week. So here it is. What do you, the slashdot reader consider seminal works? What would you consider great introductions to technical topics? If you are interested, check it out... As part of this I'm looking for books on C, C++, Perl, Python, PHP , System Administration, anything...you name. As before I have opinions on great books, but I want to see what you think. Also, what do people think is a great introductory book for people new to linux.

Comments

Isn't it obvious?

[guttentag]

I would recommend the "Dummies" series to any smart person.

seminal works

[Anonymous Coward]

My favorite resources about cum:

Playboy
Penthouse
Hustler
Chasey Lain
FUCK I CAN'T REMEMBER THAT FAMOUS ONE'S NAME!!!

easy

[Astrorunner]

select * from books
where author = 'Knuth';

Here are some for you..

[Axe]

King Wen & Duke Chou: The I Ching
Zoroaster: The Avesta
Lucretius: On the Nature of Reality
Marcus Aurelius: Meditations
Immanuel Kant: Critique of Pure Reason
Albert Einstein: Relativity

Then, more specific for developers:
The Lord of the Rings. (doh)
Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy.
How to date a woman.
..and
Definitive guide to mental and sexual masturbation.
..by me. ;-)

Re:Here are some for you..

[davebob]

I would personally recommend anything by Franz Kafka. That would prepare you for dealing with management.

Re:A brief list

[(H)elix1]

Schneier, "Applied Cryptography" -- this is a must have if you ever do any type of crypto work, from munging files to hard encryption. Good for those who really want to know what the PKI thing is all about, and then some.

Re:Kant read.

[mabinogi]

You nearly pulled it off, but unfortunately, appropriate use of an apostrophe proved your literacy.

Re:some good ones....

[bastard01]

as for knuth books, would this one be a good book? here

Re:Just a few that come to mind....

[Inthewire]

One day I saw a list of *must read* computer / programming books compiled by Steve McConnell. I had a brainfart and forgot he wrote CC.
I emailed him and told him that I loved his list, had read a good portion of it, and was copying the rest down to look for. Then I recommended he look into a fantastic book called "Code Complete."
Just before I hit 'send' I realized what I'd done. So I changed the text, but told him what happened. He sent back a nice reply that I probably still have around here somewhere.

So fscking obvious

[r_j_prahad]

UF Book I: User Friendly the Comic Strip - $12.95
UF Book II: Evil Geniuses in a Nutshell - $12.95
UF Book III: The Root of All Evil - $12.95
http://www.computergear.com/usfriencarbo.html

Because any fscking dork can code, but it takes a mondo sense of humor to create.

Re:Not all of us

[Abstrakt]

I loose money

writing pays off I'm writing,

piddly royaltees

At the risk of sounding pedantic... Shouldn't an author possess, at the very least, a basic grasp of spelling and grammar?

Yes, I'm a smartass and an asshole. Would you expect any less from a Slashdot poster? ;)

Cheers.

Re:Warning: Redundant Troll Pandering

[Anonymous Coward]

> --
> mv /bin/laden /dev/null

hi, which unix allows you to "mv" stuff to /dev/null, as a way of removing it i assume ?

it doesnt work on linux or NetBSD, please advise.

Linux:
$ mv hello /dev/null
mv: cannot move `hello' to `/dev/null': Invalid cross-device link

NetBSD:
$ mv hello /dev/null
mv: rename hello to /dev/null: Permission denied

also, why is this method useful, when with considerably less keystrokes you can just "rm" it?