Books about computing

• Code explains how telegraphs evolved into computers
• The System Design Primer explains design patterns for composing a single application out of a network of machines operating in different capacities
• The Design of the Unix Operating System explains how Unix provides software an interface to hardware
• Introduction to Networking explains how data is encoded and sent over the internet
• Cracking the Coding Interview explains the data structures that are the building blocks for algorithms
• Mastering Bitcoin explains how a publicly powered peer to peer network can use a protocol to consistently and reliably reach consensus
• Silence on the Wire explains how widely used tools, libraries, and hardware components are vulnerable to exploitation

Comments

[Sung M. Kim]

Code was fun to read 😀 and the parts on Electrical Engineering, I had to skip most of details 😅

[Peter Berg]

Yea it slows down a bit after the first half :D