droidMAKER: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution. Free downloadable PDFs of this book on the comingled histories of Lucasfilm, ILM & Pixar, and the stories of many computer graphics firsts.
droidMAKER: George Lucas and the Digital Revolution. Free downloadable PDFs of this book on the comingled histories of Lucasfilm, ILM & Pixar, and the stories of many computer graphics firsts.
BrikWars: Building Brick Combat System. Light-hearted wargame rules for use with LEGO and other unofficial minifig accoutrements.
Programmers At Work. Interviews from Susan Lammers' well received 1986 book. This was the inspiration behind the recent "Founders at Work" by a founding partner of Paul Graham's Y Combinator, which is a pretty interesting read in it's own right.
Of a Book Entitled “Mr. Turing's Computing Machine”. A "making of" for Charles Petzold's new book. Looks to be a semi-sequel to his "Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software", which is a wonderful book.
“So many toys, we find, only become serviceable with a little smashing.”— H.G. Wells, Floor Games
Floor Games. H.G. Wells' short treatise on the construction of building block dioramas for the purpose of being at play in imaginary worlds. See also his follow-up volume "Little Wars" on enacting war games in same.
The Usborne Book of the Future. I seem to remember having the Robots and Future Cities sections of this as seperate books. Awesome and disturbing in equal measures. The floating, prosthetics-filled, invisible man has always stuck with me.
FINE: I will look at LISP. Where do I start? Long Reddit thread / argument with links galore to lisp resources, implementations, books, etc.
How to Design Programs. Free online book. HtDP is often mentioned in the same breath as SICP. The examples in this one are geared towards DrScheme though, which has versions available for all major OSes. Handy.
A reading list prepared by Alan Kay. Books which (presumably loosely) influenced his work on the creation of Squeak. Looks like an interesting list irrespective of that though.
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. Wow, a clean html version of SICP with maths examples you can actually read!
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. Free online version of the SICP book at MIT, since I don't seem to have it bookmarked
Ruby Hacking Guide. The nuts and bolts of how the Ruby language is cobbled together
Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Video Lectures. Video lectures from 1986 to accompany the Structure & Interpretation of Computer Programs book
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