Reading List: Academic Computer Science

Discrete Structure and its Applications

• Discrete Mathematics and its Applications, by Kenneth H. Rosen

JAVA

• Absolute Java, by Walter Savitch from Pearson Publishing
• Effective Java, by Joshua Bloch

Data Structures and Algorithm

• Data Structures and Algorithms in JAVA, by Goodrich, Tamassia and Goldwasser
• Introduction to Algorithms, by Cormen, Leiserson, Rivest and Stein
• Algorithms by Dasgupta, Papadimitriou, and Vazirani Algorithms by Sedgewick and Wayne

Mathematics

• Essential Calculus by James Stewart
• Differential Equations and Linear Algebra by Farlow, Hall, McDill and West
• Applied Linear Algebra by Olver and Shakiban
• Introduction to Graph Theory by Douglas B. West

Database

• Seven Databases in Seven Weeks, by Luc Perkins, Jim Wilson, Eric Redmond

Operating Systems

• Modern Operating Systems, A. Tanenbaum and H. Bos, Pearson Prentice Hall;
• Unix Systems Programming, Kay Robbins and Steve Robbins, Prentice Hall
• Understanding the Linux Kernel, Daniel P. Bovet and Marco Cesati, O’Reilly Media

Computer Security

• Computer Security, Dieter and Gollman

Computer Networking

• Computer Networking: A Top Down Approach, by Kurose, Ross and Wesley

Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning

• Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, by Russell and Norvig
• Pattern Classification, by Duda
• Speech and Language Processing, by Daniel Jurafsky and James Martin
• Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing, by Chris Manning and Hinrich Schütze
• Natural Language Understanding, by James Allen

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