Ask HN: Book Recommendations while Camping
2 points by JaggerJo 1 year ago | 2 commentsI’m looking for books to read while camping. I’m open to anything interesting.
Not sure if it’s relevant that I’m camping but.. that’s the context.
I’m interested in - Biographies of great programmers/founders - Functional Programming / Advanced Programming stuff - Electronics - General skill related books - Other interesting stuff
- dcminter 1 year agoBe warned I'm mostly going for the "other interesting stuff" copout here:
○ The Soul of a New Machine (Tracy Kidder) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine
○ The Cuckoo's Egg (Clifford Stoll) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)
○ Angry White Pyjamas (Robert Twigger) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_White_Pyjamas
○ Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre (Keith Johnstone) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impro:_Improvisation_and_the_T...
○ What If? (Randall Munroe) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_If%3F_(book)
○ The Inventions of Daedalus (David E.H. Jones) - https://archive.org/details/inventionsofdaed0000jone
That last one is sadly out of print now but fairly easy to obtain secondhand - if you like Randall Munroe's `What If?` books then this is likely to appeal to you too.
- brudgers 1 year agoTAoCP