ACM is doing a project where you select your favorite 20 CS books that are out of print. What were mine?
APL Gilman, L. and Rose, A. J.
Building a secure computer system Gasser, M.
Computer system organization Organick, E. I.
Compiler Construction for Digital Computers Gries, D.
Cryptography and Data Security Denning, D. E.
Data structures (Computer science series) Elson, M.
DEC VAX Security Users Manual
The Elements of Programming Style Kernighan, B. W. and Plauger, P. J.
FORTRAN IV with WATFOR and WATFIV Cress, P., Dirksen, P., and Graham, J. W.
Fundamentals of Computer Alorgorithms Horowitz, E. and Sahni, S.
History of Programming Languages R. L. Wexelblat, Ed.
IBM System/360 Principles of Operation, Form No. A22-6821
The Multics System Organick, E. I.
Operating System Principles Hansen, P. B.
Operating Systems Madnick, S. E. and Donovan, J. J.
Pascal-User Manual and Report Jensen, K. and Wirth, N.
A Practical Guide to Algol 68 (Wiley Series in Computing) Pagan, F. G.
Software Testing Techniques Beizer, B.
Systems Programming Donovan, J. J.
Unix Seventh Edition Manual
Can you tell I was into programming languages as a student? One of these books, Cress, Dirksen, and Graham, was my first programming book, which I used to learn WATFIV to program LAUSD’s MISS system. I still have a copy on my bookcase at work.
