Ask HN: What are your favourite textbooks?

[schappim]

[cafard]

Operating Systems: Design and Implementation by Andrew Tanenbaum

Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach by Hennessy and Patterson

An Introduction to Database Systems by C.J. Date Transaction Processing: Principles and Techniques by Gray and Reuter

Introduction to Automata Theory, Languages, and Computation by Hopcroft and Ullman

[Tarucho]

"The C programming language" by Kernighan & Ritchie

[cpach]

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Structure_and_Interpretation_o...

[jalcazar]

"A first course in differential equations" by Dennis G. Zill

"Introduction to Algorithms" by Cormen

"Distributed Computing Through Combinatorial Topology" by Kozlov, Herlihy & Rajsbaum

"Practical UNIX programming" by A. Robbins

[genjipress]

"Telling Writing" (4th Ed.), Macrorie. Easily the single best text I have ever read about how to become a better writer.

"The Visual Display Of Quantitative Information", Edward Tufte.

[rex_lupi]

just a few: Feynman's lectures on physics David J Griffith's Electrodynamics and quantum mechanics Molecular biology of the cell The art of electronics, Horowitz and Hill