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Interface designer and researcher known for Inventing on Principle and Up and Down the Ladder of Abstraction; founder of Dynamicland.
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The Visual Display of Quantitative InformationBook Edward Tufte
The bibles of information design.
His 'Highly recommended things!' page — a five-star list he introduces as 'my favorite things in all the world', one line of his own commentary per item. The page carries no date; the earliest Internet Archive capture is 2011-05-25 and the page's own markup references an earlier /Links2007/ version.
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A History of Graphic DesignBook Philip Meggs
History is the best distinguisher of fashion from fundamentals.
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The Elements of Graphing DataBook W. Cleveland
How to present data, and the why of the how.
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Logic & Design in Art, Science, & MathematicsBook Krome Barratt
A bizarre and fascinating tour de force of analytic design.
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Understanding ComicsBook Scott McCloud
The pedagogical potential of the comic form is vast and mostly untapped.
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The Design of Everyday ThingsBook Donald A. Norman
Design as cognitive science.
His 'Highly recommended things!' page — a five-star list he introduces as 'my favorite things in all the world', one line of his own commentary per item. The page carries no date; the earliest Internet Archive capture is 2011-05-25 and the page's own markup references an earlier /Links2007/ version.
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Designing for PeopleBook Henry Dreyfuss
Memoirs of one of the founders of industrial design.
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Cradle to CradleBook McDonough and Braungart
Manufacturing is compatible with global ecology.
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The Humane InterfaceBook Jef Raskin
Another classic analytic look at interface design.
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Rules of PlayBook Salen and Zimmerman
A comprehensive and insightful analysis of interactive design.
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A Theory of FunBook Raph Koster
Why learning is fun, and fun is learning.
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer ProgramsBook Harold Abelson
The essence of software engineering.
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The Little SchemerBook Friedman and Felleisen
One of the most unique and effective pedagogic books ever written.
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Hacker's DelightBook Henry Warren, Jr.
A treasure of bit-manipulation algorithms.
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The Design and Evolution of C++Book Bjarne Stroustrup
Biography of a language.
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Reforming the Mathematical Language of PhysicsBook David Hestenes
The geometric structure of abstract nonsense.
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Nonlinear Dynamics and ChaosBook Steven Strogatz
Pictures, examples, geometric intuition.
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Godel, Escher, BachBook Douglas Hofstadter
The formal systems, they are everywhere.
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The Art of Doing Science and EngineeringBook Richard Hamming
How to do great work.
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And Suddenly the Inventor AppearedBook Genrich Altshuller
A delightfully insane introduction to systematic invention.
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FolkloreBook Andy Hertzfeld
Anecdotes about the creation of the original Macintosh.
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MindstormsBook Seymour Papert
This is how humans were meant to learn.
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TechnopolyBook Neil Postman
Technological dependence, and the amorality of progress.
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The Structure of Scientific RevolutionsBook Thomas Kuhn
This is how the world changes: with a bang, not a whimper.
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Amusing Ourselves to DeathBook Neil Postman
Form limits function.
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A People's History of the United StatesBook Howard Zinn
The winners write the history books.
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The Mother TongueBook Bill Bryson
History of English.
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Harmonic ExperienceBook W.A. Mathieu
Tonal theory done right.
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LuaSoftware
A simple, elegant scripting language.
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HaskellSoftware
The programming language for the 21st century.
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OpenLaszloSoftware
Declarative layout, rapid prototyping.
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Lambda the UltimateOther
Everything I know about programming language theory, I owe to this site.
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CiteSeerOther
Online library of research papers.
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Dijkstra archiveOther
Collected writings of one of the founders of computer science.
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Lost GardenOther Dan Cook
Essays on creative and analytical approaches to game design.
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RhymeZoneOther
Superb rhyming dictionary.
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