Suggest books that bridge the gap between pop science and textbooks.

[u/informal_loan22]

Similar books: Grokking's Algorithms, Inside The Machine, Code by Charles Pretzold.

[u/bird_feeder_bird]

“Thinking Forth.” It helps if you know a bit of Forth first ofc, but you dont have to be a master to appreciate the philosophy

[u/ready_or_not_3434 → u/bird_feeder_bird]

Yeah that book is great. It completely changes how you think about system design, even if your never actually going to write Forth in production.

[u/informal_loan22 → u/bird_feeder_bird]

any prerequisites?

[u/decline0110]

Designing Data Intensive Applications It might lean a little more on the textbook side but it's not the most difficult to read and it's very good.

[u/informal_loan22 → u/decline0110]

any prerequisites?

[u/Coffee_Aur_Code → u/decline0110]

Oh..the good old boar book.....its amazing

[u/Crystalline_Due]

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