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Bret Victor's Bookshelf (2015)

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These are his books on "Programming Languages" and "Programming" (in the bottom right corner of the image):

* APL: The Language and its Usage

* The Design an Evolution of C++

* The annotated C++ Reference Manual

* The Joy of Clojure

* Eiffel the Language

* Programming Erlang

* Forth (Salman et al.)

* Thinking Forth

* Introduction to Fortran

* The Little Schemer

* The Seasoned Schemer

* The Reasoned Schemer

* The Little MLer

* Programming in Lua

* Lucid, the Dataflow Programming Language

* Functional Programming in Scala

* Clause and Eiffel

* Scatchpad

* Smalltalk-80, The Interactive Programming Environment

* Smalltalk-80, Bits of History, Words of Advice

* The TeXbook

* The METAFONTbook

* TeX: The Program

* METAFONT: The program

* Viewpoint: Toward a computer for visual thinkers

* Visual Grammars for Visual Languages

* How to design programs (Felleisen et al.)

* Design Patterns (Gamma et al.)

* The art of the Metaobject Protocol

* Elements of Programming

* Concepts, techniques and models of computer programming

* Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs

* Types and Programming Languages

* Essentials of Programming Languages

* Advanced compiler design and implementation (Muchnick)

* Introduction to Algorithms (Cormen et al.)

* Hacker's Delight

* Programming Pearls

* Coders at Work

* Computation: finite and infinite machines

* Purely functional data structures

* The space and motion of communication Agents

* Superdistribution

* A small matter of programming

* Basic Theory for Computer Scientists

His digital bookshelf is great too

http://worrydream.com/#!/Links

I've read most of those books but when it comes to math/electronics I unfortunately only understand some of it a big fault in my choice of areas to study.

If I could do it over again, math would at least have been as important to me as the arts and philosophy.

I'm always a little envious of people who are able to read the kind of books on his 2015 bookshelf and actually understand them.

Then again we can't be good at everything.

Why do we keep talking about Victor Bret? The world largely ignored his ideas.

No it wasn't ignored. I was largely inspired! Inspired to invent on principle. He also produced amongst others real products such as his synthesizer which received rave reviews.

Interesting selection. I'm surprised to find some of my more eclectic favorites included:

- Naked Ape, Desmond Morris

- Feynman Lectures on Computation - Feynman

- Guide to Feynman Diagrams - Mattuck

- Visual Complexity - Lima

- Data Analysis - Sivia

- Emergence - Jonhson

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