Stuff Everyone Studying Computer Science Should Know

Books to Read

Absolutely.

• Douglas Adams: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy trilogy
• J.R.R. Tolkien: The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit
• Douglas Coupland: Microserfs
• James P. Hogan: The Two Faces of Tomorrow
• Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash
• Albrecht Beutelspacher: Das ist o.B.d.A. trivial!
• Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, John Brant, William Opdyke: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
• Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, Ralph Johnson: Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software
• Joan Stigliani: The Computer User's Survival Guide
• Steve McConnell: Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction
• Donald Ervin Knuth: The Art of Computer Programming (volume I–III, volume IV part 1, volume IV part 2, volume IV part 3, volume V, volume VI, volume VII)
• Leslie Lamport: Das LaTeX-Handbuch
• Uwe Schöning: Ideen der Informatik
• Douglas R. Hofstadter: Gödel, Escher, Bach

Stuff I'm still not sure about.

• Allan Vermeulen, Scott W. Ambler, Greg Bumgardner: The Elements of Java Style

Stuff proposed by others.

• Stephen W. Hawking: A Brief History of Time
• Simon Singh: The Code Book
• Neal Stephenson: Cryptonomicon
• Neal Stephenson: Diamond Age
• Friedrich L. Bauer: Entzifferte Geheimnisse: Methoden und Maximen der Kryptologie
• Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest: Introduction to Algorithms
• Helmut Kopka: LaTeX (Band 1, Band 2, Band 3)
• Greg Egan: Luminous

Movies and series to watch

Absolutely.

• The Matrix
• Life of Brian
• Futurama (seasons I–IV, season 1, season 2, season 3, season 4)
• Tron
• The IT Crowd

Stuff I'm still not sure about.

• The Simpsons (season 1, season 2, season 3, season 4)
• A Beautiful Mind
• Pi
• eXistenZ
• Sneakers

Definitely not on the list.

• The Matrix Reloaded

Stuff proposed by others.

• 23
• Hackers
• Hackers 2
• Net Games
• War Games
• Back to the Future
• Star Trek (movies 1–10)
• Star Wars trilogy
• Terminator 2
• Delicatessen
• Spaceballs
• The Big Bang Theory

Computer games to play

Absolutely.

• Pac Man
• The Great Giana Sisters
• DOOM
• Quake

Stuff proposed by others.

• Nethack

Board games to play

Absolutely.

• Robo Ralley

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