What is the definition of "best book"? Easiest to read? Or covering "all bases"?
There is The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth. This book has heavily influenced Guido van Rossum and Python.
Another classic is Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman. Good news is that it's available free on MIT website.
There is The Art of Computer Programming by Donald E. Knuth. This book has heavily influenced Guido van Rossum and Python.
Quote:If you think you're a really good programmer... read [Knuth's] Art of Computer Programming... You should definitely send me a resume if you can read the whole thing.
—Bill Gates
Another classic is Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman. Good news is that it's available free on MIT website.
Quote:Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP) is a textbook aiming to teach the principles of computer programming, such as abstraction in programming, metalinguistic abstraction, recursion, interpreters, and modular programming. It is widely considered a classic text in computer science,[1] and is colloquially known as the wizard book, due to the wizard on the jacket.
—wikipedia
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Da Bishop: There's a dead bishop on the landing. I don't know who keeps bringing them in here. ....but society is to blame.
Da Bishop: There's a dead bishop on the landing. I don't know who keeps bringing them in here. ....but society is to blame.