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Your Favorite Tech / Eng. / CS Books?
chris_eineke writes "I like to read and to collect good books related to computer science. I'm talking about stuff like the classic textbooks (Introduction to Algorithms 2nd ed., Tanenbaum's Operating Systems series) and practitioners' books (The Practice of Programming, Code Complete) and all-around excellent books (Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Practical Common Lisp). What's your stocking-stuffer book this Christmas? What books have been sitting on your shelves that you think are the best ones of their kind? Which ones do you think are -1 Overrated? (All links are referral-free.)"
Minor correction to your post: It actually refers to parsing the leaf level (the lower ridge) of a B (binary) tree.
Or (to put it more concisely):
A parse-ridge in a pair tree.
Yes, because the only people who read Slashdot are CS/Eng geeks, and I wasn't trying to get some information about other popular areas of study.
Geez. There's not even an FA to Read, but you skipped not only the summary but the HEADLINE?!
Where in "Tech / Eng. / CS" would you put "advertising wankery and asskissing?"
Oh also, your use of the word "marketdroids" shows me that you could really benefit from reading some of these sorts of books.
Fortunately, I don't have to. I actually possess a skill.
When I was about to write my first "Hello World" program, I thoroughly studied the theory of computability. The I had to give up the project, because I couldn't find a way to prove the consistency of such a program.