Christmas book list

Well, /program/, 'tis the season to be jolly and I'm looking to be jolly by getting me some books.

On my list:
TAOCP
The Little Schemer
Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp

What else do I need? I already have K&R, Learn You a Haskell, and SICP, keep in mind.

The Little Schemer was less than satisfying for me. I'd recommend you get The Scheme Programming Language, 4th Edition instead. It's available online too, as SICP is: http://www.scheme.com/tspl4/

It's the K&R of Scheme. Better than any other book on the subject, I'd say.

I am looking for every back issue Hacker Monthly. I can't buy online copies because reasons and there are no physical copies for sale too. I wish I could pirate them but I guess HNfags aren't dick enough to upload them? Only 1-28 are available because JewCombinator made them free.

>>1
Christmas is also about giving; give a copy of The Land of Lisp to a programming newbie.

learn you a Haskell is actually good? It doesn't look very serious.

>>5

Yes. The elephant is actually quite knowledgeable.

Didnt there used to be a colleciton of online books on this site?

>>7
I uploaded a few books (satori.tar.xz) but still don't know if someone uploaded them to a public FTP. The link must be in that book thread.

I have K&R (paperback), PAIP (paperback), SICP (well it's free as html from mit.edu), nice choices.

I didn't finish PAIP, it's quite long, it has some really nice stuff about the history of early AI programs, and about symbolic mathematics (including babby-tier integrals), and about writing a scheme interperter with call/cc, and about lots of other stuff.

It's amusing how I have the same bookchoices as people on /prog/

I think we all think C and Lisp had some good ideas in them

>>9

I think we all think C and Lisp had some good ideas in them

Agreed. I'm also partial to books on those languages because

- If it's a classic text, I can follow along. It also gives a good chance that the text itself will be quality, at least by association (I can name far more respected figures in the field of C or Lisp than in, say, COBOL).
- If it's a newer text, it shows that what's being discussed is conceptual knowledge, not simply showing off syntactic sugar of BRAND X.

Of course, I think the natural limit of that is Knuth's style and [M]MIX, but there is only one Knuth, so it would be unreasonable to hold the world to him as a standard.

>>4
I'm looking to get my brother into programming and he likes newb-friendly and dense books. Is this one really good?

Also, are there any good books on category theory/math-other that you all would recommend?

Check 'em.

>>11
It's pretty decent.

progrider.org/files/books/

>>13
Thank you -sama. I'll be sure to support shared file archives for the thingy that could be used for distbb.