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How many of you so-called Computer Scientists out there have "The Art of Computer Programming" by Knuth on your bookshelves? If not please but the series all 4 books!
I'll try not to sound like a gatekeeper here, so I'll put it this way...
If you're an aspiring computer scientist, or a professional / expert computer scientist, TAOCP and SICP are some of the most amazing books in the field. If you have not read them, they should be on the VERY TOP of your wishlist!
"For Dummies" books are cheap for a reason: because they're, well... For dummies.
Also any "Teach yourself X in Y hours" bullcrap.
@MutoShack I agree, though sadly most programmers learned from 5 minute tutorials and it shows.
I've worked with a lot of developers over the years and 95% of them shouldn't be professional programmers, hobbyists at best.
I have met *University CompSci majors* who have no idea what they're talking about. It's insane!
I really wanted to attend University when I was like, 17. I looked at every local program available. The most "advanced" course taught Java, and a bit of C++. I doubt it talked at all about serious procedure optimization or lowlevel program analysis.
@MutoShack I find its a double edged sword.. if you just have purely theoretical knowledge your code will be horribly unmanagable and hard to work with. On the flip side if you have practical expiernce but lack the theoretical it will be slow and unable to properly address many technical problems.
You need both.
