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📣 JaggerJo

Book Recommendations while Camping


Hey HN,

I’m looking for books to read while camping. I’m open to anything interesting.

Not sure if it’s relevant that I’m camping but.. that’s the context.

I’m interested in - Biographies of great programmers/founders - Functional Programming / Advanced Programming stuff - Electronics - General skill related books - Other interesting stuff


  👤 dcminter Accepted Answer ✓
Be warned I'm mostly going for the "other interesting stuff" copout here:

○ The Soul of a New Machine (Tracy Kidder) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine

○ The Cuckoo's Egg (Clifford Stoll) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cuckoo%27s_Egg_(book)

○ Angry White Pyjamas (Robert Twigger) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_White_Pyjamas

○ Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre (Keith Johnstone) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impro:_Improvisation_and_the_T...

○ What If? (Randall Munroe) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What_If%3F_(book)

○ The Inventions of Daedalus (David E.H. Jones) - https://archive.org/details/inventionsofdaed0000jone

That last one is sadly out of print now but fairly easy to obtain secondhand - if you like Randall Munroe's `What If?` books then this is likely to appeal to you too.


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