The Book Every Programmer Should Read. It should be a best seller!

Love your advice!! Thank You!!

Is it for a beginner programmer who started to learn programming few weeks ago?

For some reason you really remind me of Steve Mould

Do a video on automl vs data science

Thanks for this recommendation. Good vides from Peru.

You rock... Greetings from Argentina, thank you for your ideas!!!

My first self studied windows form in C by Charles Petzold. Before reading this book i have no idea how buttons , scrollbers are working in a programming while studing in C++ cosole.His explanation is straight forward and fun to study.

I read this in 2004 and loved it! It is a must-read book for any engineer I think.

Just bought the book! Can’t wait to read it

I can also highly recommend Petzold’s book The Annotated Turing which breaks down Alan Turing’s seminal paper on The Computability of Numbers.

This is crazy! I found this book at my local library like two weeks ago and decided it was my new favorite book. Thank you for recommending this to people, it's really fantastic!

Was reading this book, and got busy. You just reminded me. I gotta finish it this month man.

The book is Code, by Charles Petzold. I just save you 2 and a half minutes.

Code by Charles Petzold.

I tried reading... but I just found it boring... sure.. some interesting insights here and there... but when your actual work has zero relation to any of this... it's hard to keep motivated to finish reading the book... might try again...

I bought a hard copy sometimes in 2000 , borders Singapore.I liked it within 10 secs of flipping through it. It was a surprise that at that time nobody in my circle liked it. Thanks for validating my taste albeit 20 years late.

I also recommend a course nand2tetris. You actually write a computer in HDL (hardware description language)

I agree its an awesome book

Finished exams yesterday was looking for a book to read 😊 Thanks

Many thanks

Read this years ago I agree with your statement

I have read this book too, and it’s really good, the review is excellent and I can only recommend reading it!

I actually bought and read this book a year ago. I immediately estimated you were talking about it during the first few seconds of your video. It is truly great.

I can highly recommend the MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series. These are tiny booklets that briefly summarise specific topics, like Data Science and Machine Learning. And because they're so specific they still manage to reach quite a bit of depth.

I did everything possible to prevent a global war until I changed my hope.

One of these days I'm gonna use one of these new fangled computers, they sound interesting.

Another great book from him is Annotated Turing! 🎉

Ironic.... As soon as you mentioned the author deep recesses of my gray matter were tickled. Went to his website. We all know the author, well anyone who read PC Mag back in the day. Now, I feel old. Looking forward to reading his book and catching up with him in this world. Always enjoyed his articles, insight and writing.

I need to know where you bought your shirt.

I read this a few years ago and also highly recommend it. I think it would be good for even non programmers just to understand computers better. It’s one of my faves!

A friend (non-programmer) - was interested in learning about computers and programming - this is one of the books that she said was most helpful for her to read.

I downloaded this book for less than £5 on kindle a few days ago and I’m hooked. I am taking CS50 on Edx and I can already tell this book is going to be great. The best way I can describe it is that it will slot in beneath CS50 in terms of explaining how hardware works at a really low level, but like CS50 it uses very simple but incredibly clever concepts to help the reader understand everything.

Sounds like electronics crash course.

Hello Sir, thanks for the recommendation, i'll get it. Would you say this book gets into explaining the compiler? Would you recommend another, similarly written, book or web page for me to understand the compiler? thanks a lot

Nice information 👍
Please talk about other books with same content . .

Just finished this book and now I’m thirsty for something similar that looks at other basic stuff like The Internet. Anyone have any recommendations for just someone still interested in understand what the bloody hell makes lumps of metal appear so alive? Thanks

I finished the book today and have to say it’s pretty freaking great. No other source has made feel like I understand how computers work.

Not every programmer, every people should read this book. I read the Chinese version a couple yrs ago, thank you for bringing this up, I'm going to buy the English version and read it again!

do i just read this book? i dont need to code or anything? or use a computer?

Thanks for sharing, I always appreciate a good reasons tip.
However I can't seem to find the link to the authors page that You mentioned.
Best regards

v2 of the book was released with updated content.
Definitely a recommend.

A 2nd Edition was released in 2022 which brings it up to date.

There's a second edition! 😬😬😬😬

Kindly make a fresh video on the book as the second edition of the book has been released

Saw this video and ordered it right away😊 thanks!

Do you know of an equivalent about networks?

2nd edition now out with interactive website (circuits, an emulator) to aid learning :)