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I am looking for a good overview book describing current state of art in the Expert Systems. I have some background in this area but it is a bit dated (10+ yrs.).

I apologise, I've been newly made a computer scientist. I'm just looking for a text(s) recommendation. I'm doing a module called program construction - It involves *quantified notation,*Hoare triples finding the weakest precondition, backwards derivation, finding the values of an array, emptying the range, finding the guard, abstracted class reduction.

Can anybody recommend beginners texts in this area?

I'm new here and looking for a recommendation.
I work with RDBMS / SQL (Oracle, MySQL, MS SQL Server) - database design, development, data migrataion.
I want to study data warehousing (I understand the concept but that's about it).

What books would you recommend for the start and why? I know Ralph Kimball is the guru but I want to hear what books really worked for you. Thanks in advance. --enot

Can someone reccomend a decent beginners book for Ruby?

I'm leaning towards this but I have no experience with that particular line.

For my PHP reference, I use this and it has everything layed out nicely for me, but the only Ruby book I could find in that line was for Ruby on Rails E-Commerce, which is not the way I'm wanting to go.

Thanks so much!

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I'm looking for Handbook of Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. A: Algorithms and Complexity (Chapter 8 Algorithm motion planning in robotics). Does anybody know of book scan available?

This isn't about computer science books exactly, but it's about books that I think would be really helpful in studying cs, so I thought you guys might have some ideas.

Does anyone know good probability and statistics or basic electricity books?
Those topics keep getting mentioned in my classes in passing, on the assumption that everyone knows how they work, but I don't. (The last time I did anything about how electricity worked was in eighth grade, and probability and statistics were only taught in the non-honors math classes in my high school.) So I'm trying to find some decent beginner's/ reference books about them.

Thanks.

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I'm a junior cs major and I'm thinking of taking a computer organization class. The thing is, on the course website, the textbook listed is Computer Engineering: Hardware Design by M. Morris Mano, which doesn't seem to have any editions published more recently than 1988.

I'm wondering if this is an appropriate book to use in a class in 2006. I don't know very much about computer hardware. Has it stayed enough the same that the information in this book is still useful today?

I've been thinking of buying a good book on algorithms that would also serve as a reference in future. There are three books I know, of Cormen,Tanenbaum and Knuth. 

Is there any other book that is better, and which one should I choose among these ?




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Anyone here interested in Alias|Wavefront Maya?

If so, what books do you recommend on character animation, particularly using Maya 6 and 7 (and possibly RenderMan).

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What textbooks do you all recommend for bioinformatics?

I'm going to follow up with an entry listing major topic areas - if anyone knows of a lower ontology for bioinformatics or just a taxonomy of BI topics that is commonly used, please let me know. After that, I will post individual subtopic lists, and reviews as time permits.

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Hey guys,

I really want to learn both C# and Java 1.5. I'm an excellent C and C++ programmer, and I'm experienced with previous versions of Java, so I'm looking for some books that can teach me everything I need to know about C# without assuming I'm a complete newbie, and some that cover the changes in Java 1.5.

Any suggestions?

Thanks!

What is your favorite discrete math book, and why?
(If you have more than one, please list them.)

-William Hsu

Cross-posted from my LJ.

As a hobbit birthday present, I posted the following recommendation of ( my favorite CS and math books )

( Honorable mention )

-William Hsu

I've had a course on data structures last semester and am looking for a good book on algorithm design, any suggestions?

I have started comptranslation, a community for machine translation, particularly new technologies and research.

Please have a look and feel free to join if you are interested.

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