Computer Science

Computer science is the scientific and practical approach to computation and its applications. It is the systematic study of the feasibility, structure, expression, and mechanization of the methodical procedures (or algorithms) that underlie the acquisition, representation, processing, storage, communication of, and access to information, whether such information is encoded as bits in a computer memory or transcribed in genes and protein structures in a biological cell. A computer scientist specializes in the theory of computation and the design of computational systems.

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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
The Thinking Machine: Jensen Huang, Nvidia, and the World's Most Coveted Microchip
The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI
The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI
AI 2041: Ten Visions for Our Future
Picks and Shovels (Martin Hench, #3)
AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference
Why Machines Learn: The Elegant Math Behind Modern AI
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
Quantum Supremacy
Pegasus: How a Spy in Your Pocket Threatens the End of Privacy, Dignity, and Democracy
Scary Smart: The Future of Artificial Intelligence and How You Can Save Our World
Fundamentals of Data Engineering: Plan and Build Robust Data Systems
Introduction to Algorithms
The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
The C Programming Language
Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
The Algorithm Design Manual
Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
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Ich langte in meine Tasche nach einem Milky Way - was sonst für einen Astronomen - und machte es mir bequem, um den Hacker auf meinem grünen Monitor zu beobachten.
Clifford Stoll, The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage

Donald Ervin Knuth
The best programs are written so that computing machines can perform them quickly and so that human beings can understand them clearly. A programmer is ideally an essayist who works with traditional aesthetic and literary forms as well as mathematical concepts, to communicate the way that an algorithm works and to convince a reader that the results will be correct.
Donald E. Knuth, Selected Papers on Computer Science

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