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by syngrog66 1091 days ago
SICP is one of my favorite books on programming. Along with GEB and Levy's Hackers.

When I want to give a young person a headstart "sneak preview" taster into "our" culture -- or what I think our culture should be, on the intellectual plane, as an ideal, then I'm confident that these in particular can be stimulating little gems.

OK, fine fine: also HHGG as the 4th of my top 3. The first book (in its series) especially but the entire 5+ books of its increasingly misnamed trilogy.

And... Neuromancer. And Snow Crash. And Cryptonomicon. And...