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Books recommended by Dan Luu
Software engineer and essayist
Engineer who has worked on hardware and large-scale systems, known for long, data-heavy essays about programming and the software industry.
This is a selection of sourced recommendations, not a complete list of everything Dan Luu has read or praised. How we choose.
Recommendations
Books Dan Luu recommends
7 books from 1 source. Each one links to the place where Dan recommended it.
Programming book recommendations and anti-recommendations
Undated essay covering books he has read, including ones he advises against. Only books he praises are recorded here.
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Algorithms
Explicit recommendationHe writes that everything about this algorithms textbook seems perfect to him.
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The Algorithm Design Manual
Explicit recommendationRecommended as the longer, more practical, less mathematical alternative to Dasgupta.
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Probability and Computing
Explicit recommendationHe says he has probably got more mileage from it than any other algorithms book.
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xv6: A Simple, Unix-like Teaching Operating System
Explicit recommendationPraised for showing how to actually implement an OS, with a small real system to experiment on.
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Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
Explicit recommendationRecommended for going into more detail than any other introductory OS book he knows.
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The Little Book of Semaphores
Explicit recommendationHe found its exercises very helpful when he first wrote concurrent code.
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Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach
Explicit recommendationRecommended for teaching how to reason about design trade-offs; he advises getting the latest edition.
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+1 other recommender: Jensen Huang
Cross-recommendations
Picks others agree on
1 book Dan recommends that at least one other person in the directory also recommends, each from their own source.
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2recommendersComputer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach 2 recommendersDan Luu, Jensen Huang
Cross-recommendations
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People in the directory who recommended at least one of the same books.
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