Six Works of Computer Science-Fiction (2015)

The denouement of the book is of course the implementation of the Smalltalk interpreter in Smalltalk, which is in many ways a star-map to a world much like our own, only better.A science fiction companion to this book: IslandThinking ForthThinking back on all of the programming books that I’ve read, I would be hard-pressed to think of one that was more influential on my personal programming style than Leo Brodie’s Masterpiece.A science fiction companion to this book: Native TongueConcepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer ProgrammingWhile Thinking Forth motivated change in my micro-level programming stylings, CTM definitely influenced my macro-level systems-level thinking. Bwahahahahahaha!”“SQL and Relational Theory,” or “Wow, the object/relational impedance mismatch is worse than I thought—and objects are the problem!”“Probability Theory: The Logic of Science,” because the probability you understand probability without reading this is 0.Apr 27th, 2015fogus Thanks Paul, nice additions!Apr 27th, 2015James Iry “Learn to Program X in 21 Days” can be the low grade potboiler science fantasy books with lurid covers that promise far more than the contents deliver.Apr 27th, 2015Julian McCarthy’s original LISP paper was pretty amazing, which I discovered while reading Ian Piumerta’s Maru source code (also pretty Computer Science Fictiony), even though I read it many many years after he wrote it. :) So good.Apr 27th, 2015Stephen De Gabrielle ‘The New Turing Omnibus’, along with ‘the magic machine’ and ‘the armchair universe’ by AK DEWDNEY really appealed to the young (Science fiction Reading) me.The current (older) me just had their mind blown by ‘Self’- but there is no book.Apr 27th, 2015Brian O'Reilly Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming — http://norvig.com/paip.htmlDanny Hillis’ phD thesis “The Connection Machine”Programming Pearls 1 & 2Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer ScienceApr 27th, 2015passerby I’d suggest that van Roy & Harid’s CTM would be better matched by the works of Jack Vance on the diversity of the Gaean Reach.Apr 27th, 2015Tony Hursh K&R first edition. http://thinking-forth.sourceforge.net/Apr 28th, 2015ThomasH Stepanov’s and McJones’ “Elements of Programming” opposit Herman Hesse’s “The Glass Bead Game” (which might not be considered Computer Science-Fiction in the classical sense, but still …).Apr 29th, 2015Roger Turner “…books of computer science and/or programming that when you read them you can’t quite believe that what they claim is reality”: Each chapter is basically: here’s a classic problem in operating systems, and here are three different systems to solve it, at least one of which is batshit crazy and at least one of which includes “let’s invest $100M in a new generation of microprocessors to solve this better.” It may be more “computer historical fiction” than science fiction, but still fantastical.Jul 5th, 2015righteous indignation How about the 6 books spoke of in the movie Hackers?1 (Green) International UNIX Environments