This book changed my lifeThe Goat writes, "Some books have made a huge impact on my life." It's true. It wasn't until the b3ta mods read the Flashman novels that we changed from mild-mannered computer operators into heavily-whiskered copulators, poltroons and all round bastards in a well-known cavalry regiment.
What books have changed the way you think, the way you live, or just gave you a rollicking good time?
Friendly hint: A bit of background rather than just a bunch of book titles would make your stories more readable
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chthonic, Thu 15 May 2008, 15:11)
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I forget the titleBut it was an early book (this was back in 1974) on computer programming and "The heuristic approach to algorithms", or something like that. I was in my second last year of high school, and the school go a "computer" - actually, a large programmable calculator about the size of a large typewriter.
My maths teacher was the only staff member that knew anything about computers, so he was given custody of the machine - and asked if I was interested in learning to program it.
34 years later, I'm still programming computers.
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