On 27 Dec 2001, Luke wrote: > Hello people... Happy Holidays... > > This is my first post. Im a senior high school student and > about to graduate this year(lets just hope hehhehe).. Im just > wondering if any of you can recommend some good Computer Science > books that most universities use...my programming skills is a > little scattered (C,Java, Perl, Python..)[ALL basic stuff]....but i > still dont consider myself a programmer... > >
Well, I can't comment on what literature you are likely to be exposed to in a University CS program, since many CS programs are very different and take varying approaches to teaching computer science. However, there are some books that --some-- would consider de facto standards. If you are learning C programming, Kernighan and Ritchie's "The C Programming Language" is worth it's weight in gold, if only for it's insight into the minds of it's authors. Many of your classes at the university level are likely not to be geared toward any particular language, but rather introducing more esoteric concepts and theories of programming: algorithms, data structures, compiler theory, RDBMS's etc... As far as that goes, many of the texts by Tanenbaum are common, and of course the canonical books on the essence of algorithms, etc, are those by Knuth. My advice right now would be to focus on one, or maybe two at the most, languages and learn them well. This being a Perl mailing list, maybe it's no surprise, I would suggest Perl for that. :) Chris -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
