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Collection of Computer Science books which are useful for background reading (in alphabetical order by last name of author):

  • ALLCOTT, Graham. "How to be a knowledge ninja: study smarter, focus better, achieve more"
    ISBN: 9781848318168
    Publisher: Icon Books (2015)
    2 copies in stock
  • BARABASI, Albert-Laszlo. "Bursts: the hidden patterns behind everything we do, from your e-mail to bloody Crusades"
    ISBN: 9780452297180
    Publisher: Plume (Penguin) (2011)
    2 copies in stock
  • BARABASI, Albert-Laszlo. "Linked: how everything is connected to everything else and what it means for business, science and everyday life"
    ISBN: 9780465085736
    Publisher: Basic Books (2014)
    1 copy in stock
  • BARRAT, James. "Our final invention: Artificial Intelligence and the end of the human era"
    ISBN: 9781250058782
    Publisher: St Martin's Griffin (2015)
    2 copies in stock
  • BODEN, Margaret. "AI: its nature and future"
    ISBN: 9780198777984
    Publisher: Oxford University Press (2016)
    2 copies in stock
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  • BOSTROM, Nick. "Superintelligence: paths, dangers, strategies"
    ISBN: 9780198739838
    Publisher: Oxford University Press (2016)
    2 copies in stock
  • BUTCHER, Paul. "Debug it! Find, repair and prevent bugs in your code"
    ISBN: 9781934356289
    Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf (2009)
    2 copies in stock
  • CALDARELLI, Guido and Michele CATANZARO. "Networks: a very short introduction"
    ISBN: 9780199588077
    Publisher: Oxford University Press (2012)
    2 copies in stock
  • CAWTHORNE, Nigel. "Alan Turing: the Enigma man"
    ISBN: 9781784045357
    Publisher: Arcturus Publishing (2014)
    2 copies in stock
  • CHEN, Zhiyuan and Bing LIU. "Lifelong machine learning"
    ISBN: 9781627055017
    Publisher: Morgan and Claypool (2016)
    2 copies in stock
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  • CHRISTIAN, Brian and Tom GRIFFIN. "Algorithms to live by: the Computer Science of human decisions"
    ISBN: 9780008166090
    Publisher: Collins (2016)
    2 copies in stock
  • COOPER, Barry S. and Jan VAN LEEUWEN (eds.). "Alan Turing: his work and impact"
    ISBN: 9780123869807
    Publisher: Elsevier (2013)
    1 copy in stock
  • COPELAND, B. Jack (ed.). "Essential Turing: the ideas that gave birth to the computer age"
    ISBN: 9780198250807
    Publisher: Oxford University Press (2004)
    2 copies in stock
  • COPELAND, Jack. "Turing: pioneer of the information age"
    ISBN: 9780198719182
    Publisher: Oxford University Publishing (2014)
    2 copies in stock
  • DHANJANI, Nitesh. "Abusing the Internet of Things: blackouts, freakouts and stakeouts"
    ISBN: 9781491902332
    Publisher: O'Reilly Media (2015)
    2 copies in stock
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  • DOMINGOS, Pedro. "Master algorithm: how the quest for the ultimate learning machine will remake our world"
    ISBN: 9780241004548
    Publisher: Allen Lane (2015)
    2 copies in stock
  • DYSON, George. "Turing's cathedral: the origins of the digital universe"
    ISBN: 9780141015903
    Publisher: Penguin (2012)
    2 copies in stock
  • FLORIDI, Luciano. "Information: a very short introduction"
    ISBN: 9780199551378
    Publisher: Oxford University Press (2010)
    2 copies in stock
  • FORD, Martin. "Architects of intelligence: the truth about AI from the people building it"
    ISBN: 9781789131512
    Publisher: Packt.com (2018)
    2 copies in stock
  • FORSYTH, David. "Probability and statistics for Computer Science"
    ISBN: 9783319644097
    Publisher: Springer (2018)
    2 copies in stock
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  • FRIEDLAND, Gerald and Ramesh JAIN. "Multimedia computing"
    ISBN: 9780521764513
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press (2014)
    1 copy in stock
  • GREENGARD, Samuel. "Internet of Things"
    ISBN: 9780262527736
    Publisher: MIT Press (2015)
    2 copies in stock
  • GRIBBIN, John. "Computing with quantum cats: from Alan Turing to teleportation"
    ISBN: 9780552779319
    Publisher: Black Swan (2015)
    2 copies in stock
  • GROSS, Benedikt et al. "Generative design: visualize, program and create with JavaScript in p5.js"
    ISBN: 9781616897581
    Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press (2018)
    2 copies in stock
  • HALIM, Steven and Felix HALIM. "Competitive programming 3: the new lower bound of programming contests"
    ISBN: 5800095810646
    Publisher: Lulu.com (2013)
    2 copies in stock
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  • HAMMERMAN, Robin and Andrew L. RUSSELL. "Ada's legacy: cultures of computing from the Victorian to the digital age"
    ISBN: 9781970001488
    Publisher: ACM/Morgan & Claypool (2016)
    2 copies in stock
  • HODGES, Andrew. "Alan Turing: the enigma"
    ISBN: 9781784700089
    Publisher: Vintage (2014)
    2 copies in stock
  • KELLMEREIT, Daniel and Daniel OBODOVSKI. "Silent intelligence: the Internet of Things"
    ISBN: 9780989973700
    Publisher: DND Ventures (2013)
    2 copies in stock
  • KELLY, Alonzo. "Mobile robotics: mathematics, models and methods"
    ISBN: 9781107031159
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press (2013)
    1 copy in stock
  • KERNIGHAN, Brian W. "Understanding the digital world: what you need to know about computers, the internet, privacy and security"
    ISBN: 9780691176543
    Publisher: Princeton University Press (2017)
    2 copies in stock
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  • LAAKMANN McDOWELL, Gayle. "Cracking the coding interview: 189 programming questions and solutions" (6th edition)
    ISBN: 9780984782857
    Publisher: Career Cup (2015)
    6 copies in stock: 15 copies of previous edition (2011) also available
  • LAAKMANN McDOWELL, Gayle. "Cracking the tech career: insider advice on landing a job at Google, Microsoft, Apple, or any top tech company"
    ISBN: 9781118968086
    Publisher: Wiley (2014)
    5 copies in stock
  • LAAKMANN McDOWELL, Gayle and Jackie BAVARO. "Cracking the PM interview: how to land a project manager job in technology"
    ISBN: 9780984782819
    Publisher: Career Cup (2013)
    5 copies in stock
  • LAVINGTON, Simon (ed.). "Alan Turing and his contemporaries: building the world's first computers"
    ISBN: 9781906124908
    Publisher: BCS (2012)
    2 copies in stock
  • LEAVITT, David. "Man who knew too much: Alan Turing and the invention of the computer"
    ISBN: 9780753822005
    Publisher: Phoenix (2006)
    2 copies in stock
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  • McEWEN, Adrian and Hakim CASSIMALLY. "Designing the Internet of Things"
    ISBN: 9781118430620
    Publisher: Wiley (2014)
    2 copies in stock
  • MORET-BORILLO, Vicente. "Adventures in Computer Science: from classical bits to quantum bits"
    ISBN: 978331964806
    Publisher: Springer (2017)
    2 copies in stock
  • NEVILLE, Colin. "Complete guide to referencing and avoiding plagiarism"
    ISBN: 9780335220892
    Publisher: Oxford University Press (2007)
    1 copy in stock
  • OXFORD Quick Reference. "Oxford Dictionary of Computer Science" (7th edition)
    ISBN: 9780199688975
    Publisher: Oxford University Press (2016)
    2 copies in stock *REFERENCE ITEM: may only be used at SSO
  • PADUA, Sydney. "Thrilling adventures of Lovelace and Babbage: the (mostly) true story of the first computer"
    ISBN: 9780141981536
    Publisher: Penguin (2016)
    2 copies in stock
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  • PEARL, Judea and Dana MAZCKENZIE. "Book of why: the new science of cause and effect"
    ISBN: 9780141982410
    Publisher: Penguin (2019)
    2 copies in stock
  • PEARS, Richard and Graham SHIELDS. "Cite them right: the essential referencing guide" (8th edition)
    ISBN: 9780230272316
    Publisher: Palgrave (2010)
    1 copy in stock
  • PETZOLD, Charles. "Annotated Turing: a guided tour through Alan Turing's historic paper on computability and the Turing Machine"
    ISBN: 9780470229057
    Publisher: Wiley (2008)
    2 copies in stock
  • PHILLIPS, Estelle M. and Derek S. PUGH. "How to get a PhD: a handbook for students and their supervisors" (5th edition)
    ISBN: 9780335242023
    Publisher: McGraw-Hill (2010)
    3 copies in stock
  • RAJAGOPALAN, A.N. and Rama CHELLAPPA (eds.). "Motion deblurring: algorithms and systems"
    ISBN: 9781107044364
    Publisher: Cambridge University Press (2014)
    1 copy in stock
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  • REAS, Casey and Ben FRY. "Processing: a programming handbook for visual designers and artists" (2nd edition)
    ISBN: 9780262028288
    Publisher: MIT Press (2014)
    2 copies in stock
  • ROBINSON, Andrew and Mike COOK. "Raspberry Pi projects"
    ISBN: 9781118555439
    Publisher: Wiley (2013)
    3 copies in stock
  • ROWNTREE, Derek. "Statistics without tears: an introduction for non-mathematicians"
    ISBN: 9780140136326
    Publisher: Penguin (2000)
    2 copies in stock
  • RUSSELL, Brian and Drew van DUREN. "Practical Internet of Things security"
    ISBN: 9781785889639
    Publisher: Packt Publishing (2016)
    2 copies in stock
  • SEELY, John. "Oxford A-Z of grammar and punctuation"
    ISBN: 9780199564675
    Publisher: Oxford University Press (2009)
    1 copy in stock *REFERENCE ITEM: may only be used at SSO
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  • SILVER, Nate. "Signal and the noise: the art and science of prediction"
    ISBN: 9780141975658
    Publisher: Penguin (2013)
    2 copies in stock
  • SONI, Jimmy and Rob GOODMAN. "Mind at play: how Claude Shannon invented the Information Age"
    ISBN: 9781476766690
    Publisher: SImon & Schuster (2017)
    2 copies in stock
  • STIGLER, Stephen M. "Seven pillars of statistical wisdom"
    ISBN: 9780674088917
    Publisher: Harvard University Press (2016)
    2 copies in stock
  • ZOBEL, Justin. "Writing for Computer Science" (3rd edition)
    ISBN: 9781447166382
    Publisher: Springer (2014)
    2 copies in stock
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