18 books like Hackers

What to read after Hackers — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Karel the Robot Richard E. Pattis · 1981 · 122p · ≈ 4h · Moderate KAREL The Robot teaches students the fundamental concepts and skills of programming, quickly and easily. By emphasizing logic and structure over calculation, it provides a nonthreatening introduction to the central ideas in programming. This widely praised guide begins by introducing KAREL, a literal-minded robot whos built-in capabilities allow him to explore his world and manipulate simple… Shares: Electronic digital computers, Programmation, Programming

Synners Pat Cadigan · 1991 · ★ 3.5 · 441p · ≈ 14h · Moderate In Synners, the line between technology and humanity is hopelessly slim. A constant stream of new technology spawns crime before it hits the streets; the human mind and the external landscape have fused to the point where any encounter with "reality" is incidental. Shares: Computer hackers, Hackers

Game Programming Patterns Robert Nystrom · 2011 · ★ 4.5 · 327p · ≈ 10h · Moderate From the author: "Game Programming Patterns is a collection of patterns I found in games that make code cleaner, easier to understand, and faster." Shares: Programming, Computer science

The Hanged Man's Song John Sandford · 2003 · ★ 4.4 · 336p · ≈ 11h · Moderate A superhacker friend of Kidd's named Bobby suddenly disapears from cyberspace, and Kidd knows that isn't a good sign. Shares: Computer hackers, Hackers

Fatal System Error Joseph Menn · 2010 · ★ 3.4 · 287p · ≈ 9h · Moderate In this disquieting cyber thriller, Joseph Menn takes readers into the murky hacker underground, traveling the globe from San Francisco to Costa Rica and London to Russia. His guides are California surfer and computer whiz Barrett Lyon and a fearless British high-tech agent. Through these heroes, Menn shows the evolution of cyber-crime from small-time thieving to sophisticated, organized gangs,… Shares: Computer hackers, Hackers

AI for Games, Third Edition Ian Millington · 2019 · 1010p · ≈ 33h · Moderate AI is an integral part of every video game. This book helps professionals keep up with the constantly evolving technological advances in the fast growing game industry and equips students with up-to-date information they need to jumpstart their careers. This revised and updated Third Edition includes new techniques, algorithms, data structures and representations needed to create powerful AI in… Shares: Programmation, Programming

WWW Robert J. Sawyer · 2011 · ★ 3.3 · 329p · ≈ 10h · Moderate A Hugo and Nebula Award-winning author joins Ace with a stunning new science fiction epic. Caitlin Decter is young, pretty, feisty, a genius at math, and blind. When she receives an implant to restore her sight, instead of seeing reality she perceives the landscape of the World Wide Web-where she makes contact with a mysterious consciousness existing only in cyberspace. Shares: Computer hackers, Hackers

Flickan som lekte med elden Stieg Larsson · 2006 · ★ 4.0 · 631p · ≈ 21h · Moderate Mikael Blomkvist på Millennium har fått korn på ett hett nyhetsstoff. Journalisten Dag Svensson och hans sambo Mia Bergman har hittat avslöjande uppgifter om en omfattande sexhandel mellan Östeuropa och Sverige. Många av de personer som utpekas i traffickinghärvan har höga positioner i samhället. Samtidigt återvänder Lisbeth Salander till Sverige och händelser i hennes mörka förflutna börjar… Shares: Computer hackers, Hackers

iOS Game Programming With Xcode and Cocos2d Justin Dike · 2013 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Professional instructor, Justin Dike teaches iOS game programming with Xcode and Cocos2d v2. Learn with HD images, interactive galleries, video examples, and color coded examples. Anyone learning Cocos2d or Xcode, beginner or otherwise, will benefit from this comprehensive book.  Topics specific to game programming include: collision detection, platform  collisions, virtual joysticks,… Shares: Programmation, Programming

Neuromancer William Gibson · 1984 · ★ 3.9 · 310p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The first of William Gibson's Sprawl trilogy, Neuromancer is the classic cyberpunk novel. The winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer was the first fully-realized glimpse of humankind’s digital future — a shocking vision that has challenged our assumptions about our technology and ourselves, reinvented the way we speak and think, and forever altered the landscape of our… Shares: Computer hackers, Hackers

iPhone iOS 5 Development Essentials Neil Smyth · 2011 · 465p · ≈ 15h · Moderate The aim of iPhone iOS 5 Development Essentials is to teach you the skills necessary to build your own applications for the iPhone. Beginning with the basics, this book provides an overview of the iPhone hardware and the architecture of iOS 5. An introduction to programming in Objective-C is provided followed by an in-depth look at the design of iPhone applications and user interfaces.  More… Shares: Programmation, Programming

Game Ai Pro 360 Steve Rabin · 2019 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Steve Rabin’s Game AI Pro 360: Guide to Architecture gathers all the cutting-edge information from his previous three Game AI Pro volumes into a convenient single source anthology covering game AI architecture. This volume is complete with articles by leading game AI programmers that further explore modern architecture such as behavior trees and share architectures used in top games such as Final… Shares: Programmation, Programming

Artificial intelligence for games Ian Millington · 2006 · 872p · ≈ 29h · Moderate What is artificial intelligence? How is artificial intelligence used in game development?Game development lives in its own technical world. It has its own idioms, skills, and challenges. That’s one of the reasons games are so much fun to work on. Each game has its own rules, its own aesthetic, and its own trade-offs, and the hardware it will run on keeps changing. AI for Games is designed to help… Shares: Programmation, Programming

Malicious bots Ken Dunham · 2008 · 161p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Originally designed as neutral entities, computerized bots are increasingly being used maliciously by online criminals in mass spamming events, fraud, extortion, identity theft, and software theft. Malicious Bots: An Inside Look into the Cyber-Criminal Underground of the Internet explores the rise of dangerous bots and exposes the nefarious methods of "botmasters". This valuable resource… Shares: Hackers, Internet

The Master Switch Tim Wu · 2010 · ★ 4.1 · 376p · ≈ 12h · Moderate In this age of an open internet, it is easy to forget that every American information industry, beginning with the telephone, has eventually been taken captive by some ruthless monopoly or cartel. With all our media now traveling a single network, an unprecedented potential is building for centralized control over what Americans see and hear. Could history repeat itself with the next industrial… Shares: Internet, History

Cours de philosophie positive Auguste Comte · 1800 · ★ 3.2 · 260p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Auguste Comte publie de 1830 à 1842 son Cours de philosophie positive, dont les quatre volumes constituent un système philosophique englobant l’ensemble des branches de la connaissance, parmi lesquelles la science ultime, la nouvelle « physique sociale », ou « sociologie », qui envisage de manière globale l’évolution de l’esprit humain. Shares: Mathematics, History

Torches Together Emmy Arnold · 1964 · 220p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Not many people talk about "joy" these days. Emmy Arnold's memoir radiates just that - an enthusiasm for life and an unflagging optimism grounded in faith. In a genre awash in sordid sex and dysfunctional relationships, she offers a refreshing account of a hard life lived victoriously, of people brought together, despite their own weakness and turbulent times, to experience new levels of freedom,… Shares: Biography & Memoir, History

Advanced Computing in Industrial Mathematics Krassimir Georgiev · 2017 · 248p · ≈ 8h · Moderate This book gathers the peer-reviewed proceedings of the 12th Annual Meeting of the Bulgarian Section of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, BGSIAM’17, held in Sofia, Bulgaria, in December 2017. The general theme of BGSIAM’17 was industrial and applied mathematics, with a particular focus on: high-performance computing, numerical methods and algorithms, analysis of partial… Shares: Mathematics, Computer science

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