The Art of Computer Programming (TAOCP) by Donald Knuth

>>62470186
> based on its stellar reputation as one of the indispensible, foundational computer science books that every programmer should read.
You're not supposed to read it, nobody's ever actually read it. We all just say we've read it, talk about how brilliant it is, and place it prominently on our office bookshelves to silently humblebrag to anyone who drops by. Sorry you had to spend $200 on that lesson, mate.

you should have wasted those $200 on a mech keyboard

 
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>>62470292
I don't have a better answer than this.

It's kind of like those massive door-stopper classical books that 1500+ pages.
We buy a copy and put it on our shelves because it makes us think that other people think we're smart.

The good part of Knuth, though, is that it is quite rigorous and should prepare you for just about any future readings.

>>62470186
>not buying Computer Systems: A Programmers Perspective
http://csapp.cs.cmu.edu/public/perspective.html
You brought it on yourself

>not downloading pdfs and preserving physical space in your house
Lmao@urLyfe

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>>62470708
Piracy is sin.

>>62470782
>implying Kate didn't commit the biggest sin there is

>>62470782
wasting paper is a sin too

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>>62471243
>stealing other's intellectual property
>utilizing regenerative carbon that will be recycled anyway and is biodegradable
Which do you think is sin? Think.

>>62470186
>I started getting the sinking feeling that I'd just wasted $200. It seems quite mired in 1960's-era academic minutiae and tedious mathematical formalism that doesn't seem very relevant to a modern practicing programmer.
Yes, that is quite accurate. Underneath that minutiae is a mediocre textbook on algorithms, and that's all. I never understood what people see in those books.

>>62471290
You being alive faggot

You got memed kid. Happens to everyone from time to time.

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>>62471475
Life is a gift from God.

>>62471562
life is a gift from chaos.
go read the bible.

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>>62471584
And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul. (Genesis 2:7)

>>62470186
Anyone have the PDFs to these books? Was thinking of buying but now I'm thinking of sailing the high seas

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>>62471790
Just borrow them from your local library.

>>62471632
teach me more about god, senpai

>>62471802
> going outside
Ehhh I'll stay ignorant

>>62472038
And fat and unbathed I'm sure.

>>62471632
i shaked pope francis hand last week, he told me the truth about god.
>>62472038
pdf or paper you won't read them anyways

>>62470708
I just emailed Prof. Knuth asking him for the books and cced his assistant, he replied in 3 days with the PDFs.

>>62472073
>(((pope)))

>>62471790
Download from the gentooman library

I fell for the physics version of this meme. Have a box set of Feynman's lectures I've read like 10 pages of. A year later they were posted online, typset in LaTeX. rip

>>62470186
>pipeline stalls, designing for cache performance, branch prediction, multithreading
You should be making decisions regarding these yourself. Knuth would be revising TAOCP every 2 years to talk about the latest meme cpus and architectures

>>62470186
How does it feel to waste money on something you'll never use OP?