Yea mean "every self-taught PROGRAMMER should read". Computer science is very di...

lee on Feb 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Books every self-taught computer scientist should ...

Yea mean "every self-taught PROGRAMMER should read".

Computer science is very different than day-to-day "real world" programming. Computer science is more akin to applied mathematics... its the study of algorithms and computation.

What your books teach is programming, building software and such.

scott_s on Feb 15, 2012 [–]

See my reply to phillmv elsewhere in the thread.