October 2020
Intermediate to advanced
336 pages
8h 15m
English
Dear DK,
My job keeps me too busy to read real books about computer science. And I don’t seem have a great attention span. But I know that everything about computers keeps changing rapidly, and I’m afraid that I’ll soon be obsolete if I don’t keep up with the field.
Can you suggest any reliable source of current information, by which I might painlessly improve the quality of my work?
Harried Information Hider
Dear Harried,
For many years DK has been a fan of the regular columns by Kode Vicious in Communications of the ACM. The topics are not only timely, they’re explained with wit and elegance. KV is not afraid to take unpopular views, and he savagely dissects lots of the insanity that tends to be spreading around. ...