Programming Pearls (2nd Edition) (ACM Press)33 reviews Jon Bentley Addison-Wesley Professional, 1999 Utterly essential to read and re-read + Good book + Must read + true pearls of programming wisdom             C Programming Language (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall Software)257 reviews Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie Prentice Hall PTR, 1988 The Must-have + A book to keep .. + C Programming Book + Magic book + Great Book             UNIX(R) Systems for Modern Architectures: Symmetric Multiprocessing and Caching for Kernel Programmers ...7 reviews Curt Schimmel Addison-Wesley Professional, 1994 Wonderful Book + Great Book for Linux Kernel People + THE book if you are a kernel/threading developer. + A "Must Have" book for OS professionals and students.             The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System10 reviews Marshall Kirk McKusick, George V. Neville-Neil Addison-Wesley Professional, 2004 Highly recommended for learning how a kernel works in practice + Best Linux book for advanced learners + Very nice and complete introduction book + The OTHER freeOS explained + Very good work             UNIX Network Programming, Volume 2: Interprocess Communications (2nd Edition) (The Unix Networking Reference ...12 reviews W. Richard Stevens Prentice Hall PTR, 1998 Five star book on a four star subject + If you want to program in Linux you need this book. + Classic work - but in series need of updates as time goes on + The real power of UNIX is in communication             Network Algorithmics,: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Designing Fast Networked Devices (The Morgan Kaufmann ...5 reviews George Varghese Morgan Kaufmann, 2004 great book - a must read + Excellent book + offers 15 design principles + excellent book + Very readable, insightful, and much-needed book             Computer Architecture, Fourth Edition: A Quantitative Approach (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Computer ...11 reviews John L. Hennessy, David A. Patterson Morgan Kaufmann, 2006 a must-have for computer engineers + Best book for multi-core architechture around. + Excellent computer architecture text- even fun and engaging to read + Clear and comprehensive + always a great book!             Engineering a Compiler8 reviews Keith Cooper, Linda Torczon Morgan Kaufmann, 2003 Depends on what you want + Best introductory codegen/optimization book out there + A great starter guide to writing a compiler What it is: A great introduction to basic concepts in contemporary compilers. What it's not: A handbook for someone thrown in at the deep end of commercial compiler development. I can imagine a very good one-term course in compiler construction built around this text. After a brief ...             Linkers and Loaders (The Morgan Kaufmann Series in Software Engineering and Programming)17 reviews John R. Levine Morgan Kaufmann, 2000 Helpful + decent + A must-have book + clear explanation of concepts             More Programming Pearls: Confessions of a Coder Jon Louis Bentley Addison Wesley Publishing Company, 1988             The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition (2nd Edition)128 reviews Frederick P. Brooks Addison-Wesley Professional, 1995 Software Development + Interesting case study + Excellent & Highly Recommended Book + Required Reading For Anyone Serious About Software Development + seminal classic             Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface. Third Edition, Revised32 reviews David A. Patterson; John L. Hennessy Morgan Kaufmann, 2007 Great job + older version is better + Simple, clear introduction this book was very affordable Shipping was a little slow but the book Was in great condition as promised thanx man!!             Selected Papers on Computer Science (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)7 reviews Donald E. Knuth Center for the Study of Language and Inf, 2004 Read this book first + An Survey of Computer Science Presented by One of the Field's Finest + A fine book on the philosophy of computer science + It changes the way you think about Computer Science + Need to find a research topic?             Windows® Internals: Including Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, Fifth Edition (PRO-Developer) Mark Russinovich, David A. Solomon Microsoft Press, 2009 Delve inside the Windows kernel with noted internals experts Mark Russinovich and David Solomon, in collaboration with the Microsoft Windows product development team. This classic guide - fully updated for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, including             Unix Network Programming, Volume 1: The Sockets Networking API (3rd Edition) (Addison-Wesley Professional ...25 reviews W. Richard Stevens, Bill Fenner, ... Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003 Comprehensive. + Very Good Book + This is the one I have been looking for. + Competent Update to the Stevens Classic + A piece of art             Writing Solid Code: Microsoft's Techniques for Developing Bug-Free C Programs (Microsoft Programming Series)42 reviews Steve Maguire Microsoft Press, 1993 Too old to read, too good to forget + Excellent read + Good "old school" book + Old but still relevant today             Lions' Commentary on Unix9 reviews John Lions Peer-to-Peer Communications Inc., 1977 The Way + Excellent book for Unix lover + Complete, Yet Small Enough to Grasp + Amazing and insightful historical perspective + Beautiful             Windows NT File System Internals : A Developer's Guide10 reviews Rajeev Nagar O'Reilly, 1997 Very unique but has to be read with other recent materials. + Good Insight - still relevant! + Available to order from OSR Press + Great info, but much repeating + Deep Information on NT internals.             Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment, Second Edition (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)1 review W. Richard Stevens, Stephen A. Rago Addison-Wesley Professional, 2008 Great that it's now available in paperback! Three years ago, this second edition was released in hardcover. A worthy and needed updating of the first edition. Now this paperback edition is made available. The cheaper cost will benefit some readers. Its reputation as one of the standard unix texts means that many unix and linux programmers ...             UNIX Internals: The New Frontiers17 reviews Uresh Vahalia Prentice Hall, 1995 The best operating systems book in existence + Best OS book + Great book tolearn about diff. flavours of UNIX + Great reference + Must have