I have been reading 'the innovators' by walter isaacson and it's pretty good overview of computing. I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for non-fiction computing books? I find I learn best from history type books, but any type would be great. The black books about doom etc. look like good resources as well, but haven't read them.
OliverMarsh I have been reading 'the innovators' by walter isaacson and it's pretty good overview of computing. I was wondering if anyone had any recommendations for non-fiction computing books? I find I learn best from history type books, but any type would be great. The black books about doom etc. look like good resources as well, but haven't read them.
One of my favorites that I've recently read is "A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age".
I read the Black Book about Wolfenstein 3D - not the Doom one yet - , and it goes pretty in depth as to how the team managed to fit a game in the computers of that time, with all the quirks and hardware constraints and exotisms that make writing "handmade" software today feel like a breeze.