ECRB: Great Books

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ECRB list of Great Books is an article written by Greg V. Wilson in Dr. Dobbs Technical Journal. ECRB stands for Electronic Review of Technical Books. It's an important article and forms a good basis for beginning computer programming theorists to expand their backgrounds with solid fundamentals. The article in its entirety can be found at: http://www.ercb.com/feature/feature.0013.html

The list is as follows:

Donald Knuth The Art of Programming
Fred Brooks The Mythical Man-Month
Christopher Alexander A Pattern Language
Douglas Hofstadter Godel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Jon Bentley Programming Pearls
Barry Boehm Software Engineering Economics
Tom DeMarco Peopleware
Hennessy and Patterson Computer Architecture
Marvin Minsky Computation: Finite and Infinite Machines
Strunk and White The Elements of Style
Lewis Carroll Through the Looking Glass

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Reasons to read books	Donald Knuth	Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid	Books
The Book of Lies: Forward	The Elements of Style	Loeb Classical Library	St. John's College
Galactic Patrol	5 recommended books for young men	Dr. Dobb's Journal	Microsoft does your mom
Mr. Book	Earl of Aberdeen	Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance	To Kill a Mockingbird
Avram Davidson	Marvin Minsky	KDE	University of Cambridge
Armenia	The Mythical Man-Month	ECR	computer

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