OpenStax, the Rice University-based provider of free, peer-reviewed, openly licensed course materials, has expanded its content library with a new computer science textbook: Introduction to Python ...

My dad and I have been cleaning out the basement, and we've sorted through a bunch of old books and textbooks that I thought some of you might be interested in, if you collect old reference ...

Good computer books are worth their weight in gold, because the online help in most applications leaves a lot to be desired. Unfortunately, while millions are spent programming software, considerably ...

C. 2500 BCE: Sumerian abacus -- c. 700 BC: Scytale -- c. 150: Antikythera mechanism -- c. 60: Programmable robot -- c. 850: "On Deciphering Cryptographic Messages ...

This may (or not) be the right forum for this. In my folly, I've accumulated more than a hundred computer books over the years. Having an acknowledged element of the pack rat mentality has contributed ...