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This compelled me to take my copy of "Programming Pearls" (by Jon Bentley, 2000, 2nd ed.) from the bookshelf.

Another one that has spent time on my night table is "The Turing Omnibus: 61 excursions in computer science" by A.K. Dewdney. Varied, clever problems in dazzlingly plain language.

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The Turing Omnibus leisurely covers a broad range of important and often forgotten topics. It's a great book. It will give you a good overview of CS, and then you can go deep at your choosing with other books.

I loved the first chapters in Bentley, but then I thought the novelty wore down. Maybe I'll take a new look at it too.

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