Book Reviews...
The crazy type...

These won't only include Programming books, however, the majority is on the programming subject. These are not all the books I've read, just the ones I cared enough to mention.

This book is incredibly interesting to read (that's why it's mentioned first in this review!) It talks about stuff like Origins and Fate of the Universe. A really interesting reading for anybody remotely interested in science, and learning more about the universe and it's secrets.

When I first got this book for my Theoretical Computer Science class, I hated it terribly. However, this book proved to be a LOT more valuable than ANY books I've read in relation to computer science. It talks about Finite Automata, Context Free Languages (and grammars), about Parsing, and LOTS more! Definitely a recommended reading for anybody seriously interested in computer science. (it's not a fun book to read, but it's very useful)

I only recently got this book but looking at it's 19th printing, I'd say that it's quite popular (with 3 different ISBN numbers!) It seems to mention most algorithms which I have come in contact with. It talks about data structures, and seems to have a lot of interesting stuff. Could be an interesting reading for programmers.

This book talks about graphics concepts in a very formal and portable fashion. However, most examples that it provides are quite useless. It does mention quite a bit of info, from 2D lines, to 3D Hidden Surfaces... A good book to have as a "formal reference," but definitely not a book you'd want to learn graphics from.

Well, some say it's a good book, others say it's junk. Check out: http://math.jpl.nasa.gov/nr/nr.html for problems related to the book. As for my opinion, I think it's pretty good (if you don't use any of the stuff described in the critique ;-) What I liked about it is that it has everything... Almost every algorithm I ever needed is in there (and the only book that I found that actually implements Fast Fourier Transform).

A simple yet interesting introduction to Discrete Mathematics. It's kind of a 'easy' algorithms book as well, has most things found in regular algorithms books, only simplified. Definitely recommend it if you're just getting started with computer science math. If you've dealt with this stuff before, this book will prove to be too simple though.

This book has LOTS of code and lots of information about graphics programming. However, if you know absolutely zero about graphics, this book can be a bit overwhelming. It's a good inspirational book (one that doesn't make you sleepy when you read it), but it's a bit dated (i.e.: it has lost of 16 bit DOS code, which is pretty much useless in today's world)

This book contains almost the entire contents of Zen of Graphics Programming book, and Zen of code optimization (I think). It's really huge (definitely the fattest book I've got). Has lots of relevant information which is presented in a very interesting fashion. However, the code is old (16 bit DOS assembly, and C), with half the book spent optimizing 16 bit assembly. It's a good book to read for it's inspirational value, and to learn 'the basics' of graphics without using some 3D API. (talks a bit about the Quake engine)

That's the book they use at Brooklyn College to teach Data Structures (probably because Brooklyn College professors wrote it!) It's a good general book on data structures. Covers quite a bit of info. However, I found it boring to read, and hard to figure out what's being explained. (this book is the reason for me writing my own Data Structures tutorial ;-)