Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!zeus!amadeus!karenc From: karenc@amadeus.TEK.COM (Karen Cate;6291502;92-734;LP=A;60sC) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Re: Cynic's Guide, part 5: Bookshelf Message-ID: <3487@zeus.TEK.COM> Date: 11 May 88 19:41:10 GMT References: <2768@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU> Sender: news@zeus.TEK.COM Reply-To: karenc@amadeus.UUCP (Karen Cate) Distribution: na Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR. Lines: 37 In article <2768@Shasta.STANFORD.EDU> neff@Shasta.UUCP (Randy Neff) writes: > >Software Engineering: > Mythical Man Month ... Fred Brooks > Software Tools [in Pascal] ... B.W. Kernighan and Plaugher > >Algorithms: > The Art of Computer Programming (three vols) ... Donald Knuth > Algorithms ... Robert Sedgewick > Fundamentals of Computer Algorithms ... Horowitz and Sahni > Computers and Intractablity ... Garey and Johnson > >What other topics should be included? >What other books would you recommend? The first thing that popped up in my mind is "Data Structures". Having only seen excerpts from a couple of the listed books, I don't know whether this topic is included in the others... > >Science Fiction: Well.... Nah, we don't need A sci-fi war... Karen A. Cate Tektronix Inc, Beaverton OR tektronix!amadeus!karenc -OR- karenc@amadeus.LA.TEK.COM i n e w s f o o d