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Bret Victor's Bookshelf (2015)

by kennethfriedman on 7/2/19, 6:19 PM with 5 comments

• by hwj on 7/3/19, 8:08 AM

  These are his books on "Programming Languages" and "Programming" (in the bottom right corner of the image):

  * APL: The Language and its Usage

  * The Design an Evolution of C++

  * The annotated C++ Reference Manual

  * The Joy of Clojure

  * Eiffel the Language

  * Programming Erlang

  * Forth (Salman et al.)

  * Thinking Forth

  * Introduction to Fortran

  * The Little Schemer

  * The Seasoned Schemer

  * The Reasoned Schemer

  * The Little MLer

  * Programming in Lua

  * Lucid, the Dataflow Programming Language

  * Functional Programming in Scala

  * Clause and Eiffel

  * Scatchpad

  * Smalltalk-80, The Interactive Programming Environment

  * Smalltalk-80, Bits of History, Words of Advice

  * The TeXbook

  * The METAFONTbook

  * TeX: The Program

  * METAFONT: The program

  * Viewpoint: Toward a computer for visual thinkers

  * Visual Grammars for Visual Languages

  * How to design programs (Felleisen et al.)

  * Design Patterns (Gamma et al.)

  * The art of the Metaobject Protocol

  * Elements of Programming

  * Concepts, techniques and models of computer programming

  * Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

  * Types and Programming Languages

  * Essentials of Programming Languages

  * Advanced compiler design and implementation (Muchnick)

  * Introduction to Algorithms (Cormen et al.)

  * Hacker's Delight

  * Programming Pearls

  * Coders at Work

  * Computation: finite and infinite machines

  * Purely functional data structures

  * The space and motion of communication Agents

  * Superdistribution

  * A small matter of programming

  * Basic Theory for Computer Scientists

• by ThomPete on 7/2/19, 6:59 PM

  His digital bookshelf is great too

  http://worrydream.com/#!/Links

  I've read most of those books but when it comes to math/electronics I unfortunately only understand some of it a big fault in my choice of areas to study.

  If I could do it over again, math would at least have been as important to me as the arts and philosophy.

  I'm always a little envious of people who are able to read the kind of books on his 2015 bookshelf and actually understand them.

  Then again we can't be good at everything.

• by sam_lowry_ on 7/2/19, 8:43 PM

  Why do we keep talking about Victor Bret? The world largely ignored his ideas.

• by Anon84 on 7/2/19, 7:40 PM

  Interesting selection. I'm surprised to find some of my more eclectic favorites included:

  - Naked Ape, Desmond Morris

  - Feynman Lectures on Computation - Feynman

  - Guide to Feynman Diagrams - Mattuck

  - Visual Complexity - Lima

  - Data Analysis - Sivia

  - Emergence - Jonhson