computer science history

Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

— Edsger Dijkstra

• logicomix: an epic search for truth - apostolos doxiadis
• a mathematical theory of communication - claude shannon (1948)
• introduction to computing systems: from bits and gates to c and beyond - patt & patel
• combinators and the story of computation - stephan wolfram (2020)

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