This is the place to recomend any good (computer) books that you think would be helpful or fun to read. Tell why you liked the book, and, if its available for free download on the internet tell where to get it.

In the Beginning was the Command Line
Here is a fun little (or not so little) essay about computers now and in the past by Neal Stephenson. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this, and I would definately recomend it to anyone interested in computers and operating systems. You can just print it out and read it during your boreing classes at school. That's what I did.

download it (.zip) at http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html

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The Heretic is a cool book! It's a science-fiction-hacker-story that you can read online at www.happyhacker.org . Hacker of course, not in the scence of haX0r.
Unfortunatelly, I've only read it half way because I haven't had the time to finish reading it. The first half of the book is really cool though, I can assure you that
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Computer science books I've greatly enjoyed (incomplete details, as I'm doing this from memory):

* Code Complete - Quite a good book. Talks about coding practices, software development processes...

* The Mythical Man Month - Fred Brooks. Dated, but much of his observations are extremely accurate today. Best-known for "Adding programmers to a late project makes it later."

* Programming Perl - O'Reilly. Camel book. Great!

* Algorithms - Sedgewick - must-read in college.

* Art of Computer Programming - Knuth, 3 volumes out of 7. Dated and archaic, but it's still pretty cool.

More that I just can't think of at this time.

Michelle Slatalla & Joshua Quittner: Hacker (don't ask me how they are spelled) is a cool book I've read a couple of times...

Herbert Schildt: C/C++ Reference is a very useful book...

Robert Burns: HTML Goodies (it's not only a book but a website as well - I recommend the latter: http://www.htmlgoodies.com)

I have a couple of Hungarian books... A really neat C/C++ book among them.

http://www.oreilly.com/openbook/

a couple of interesting books can be found here, including 1 on writing linux device drivers which i found very good at teaching some of the linux kernel innards.

How Computers Work, I like this book. Very visualy, I have an old edition in pdf if anyone wants it.

hey , also don't forget to check http://www.informit.com ... also many good stuff to read =D
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I have an OS Development forum set up in the Projects section. dxprog (who prefers Obi-wan, not Yoda) told me about a book called MMURTL 1.0 (huh???) that is supposedly good for OSdevers like me.

eosp

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I'll demystify the MMURTL thing for you. The book was originally called "Developing Your Own 32-bit Operating System" (the book I have). The OS they make is called MMURTL (a very poor acronym for Message-based, muLtitasking, Real-Time OS). The book was rereleased a few years later under the title MMURTL 1.0. Search Amazon.com for it and you'll find it in no time

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[ This Message was edited by: dxprog on 2003-09-21 12:26 ]

OK.

Also, there's one called Just for Fun by Linus Torvalds. It is the story of him making linux, starting before the A/B/A/B program to test PMode. There's a whole list on http://www.osdever.net/ too. [addsig]

Lately since I've been programming, I haven't done HTML for months. So I decided to touch up on my HTML skills, and go farther into XML and XHTML.

So I got Sam's Teach Yourself HTML and XHTML in 24 Hours by Dick Oliver and Michael Morrison. Not only that, it also covers Javascript, DHTML, graphics, and animations.

Kudos to this book. It definitely doesn't lollipop. [addsig]