Programming

• Ellen Ullman
  Ellen Ullman
  Ellen Ullman is an American computer programmer and author. She has written novels as well as articles for various publications, including Harper's, Wired, the New York Times and Salon. Her essays and novels analyze the human side of the world of computer programming.Ullman earned a B.A. in...
  
   - Close to the machine
• Eric Raymond - The Art of Unix Programming
  The Art of Unix Programming
  The Art of Unix Programming by Eric S. Raymond is a book about the history and culture of Unix programming from its earliest days in 1969 to 2003 when it was published, covering both genetic derivations such as BSD and conceptual ones such as Linux....
  
  
• Donald Knuth
  Donald Knuth
  Donald Ervin Knuth is a computer scientist and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University.He is the author of the seminal multi-volume work The Art of Computer Programming. Knuth has been called the "father" of the analysis of algorithms...
  
   - The Art of Computer Programming
  The Art of Computer Programming
  The Art of Computer Programming is a comprehensive monograph written by Donald Knuth that covers many kinds of programming algorithms and their analysis....
  
  
• Richard M. Stallman - Free Software, Free Society
• Richard P. Gabriel - Patterns of Software
• Richard P. Gabriel - Innovation Happens Elsewhere
• Keith Curtis - After the Software Wars
  After the Software Wars
  After the Software Wars is a book by Keith Curtis about free software and its importance in the computing industry, specifically about its impact on Microsoft and the proprietary software development model....
  
  
• Gerald M. Weinberg - The Psychology of Computer Programming
• Brian W. Kernighan, Rob Pike - The Practice of Programming
  The Practice of Programming
  The Practice of Programming by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike is a 1999 book about computer programming and software engineering, published by Addison-Wesley....
  
  
• Joel Spolsky
  Joel Spolsky
  Avram Joel Spolsky is a software engineer and writer. He is the author of Joel on Software, a blog on software development. He was a Program Manager on the Microsoft Excel team between 1991 and 1994. He later founded Fog Creek Software in 2000 and launched the Joel on Software blog...
  
   - The Best Software Writing I
• Andy Oram, Gregory V. Wilson
  Gregory V. Wilson
  Gregory V. Wilson is a software engineer and teacher based in Toronto, Canada. He has written books related to software engineering and children's' books.- Biography :...
  
   - Beautiful Code

About Hackers and Hacker Culture

• Steven Levy
  Steven Levy
  Steven Levy is an American journalist who has written several books on computers, technology, cryptography, the Internet, cybersecurity, and privacy.-Career:...
  
   - Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
  Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
  Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution is a book by Steven Levy about hacker culture. It was published in 1984 in Garden City, New York by Anchor Press/Doubleday...
  
  
• Douglas Thomas
  Douglas Thomas
  Douglas Thomas is an American scholar, researcher, and journalist. He is currently Associate Professor at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California where he studies technology, communication, and culture...
  
   - Hacker Culture
• Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
  Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution
  Open Sources: Voices from the Open Source Revolution is a book published by O'Reilly Media. It is an anthology of essays written by luminaries of the open source and free software movements...
  
  
• Suelette Dreyfus - Underground: hacking, madness and obsession on the electronic frontier
• Eric S. Raymond
  Eric S. Raymond
  Eric Steven Raymond , often referred to as ESR, is an American computer programmer, author and open source software advocate. After the 1997 publication of The Cathedral and the Bazaar, Raymond was for a number of years frequently quoted as an unofficial spokesman for the open source movement...
  
   - The New Hacker's Dictionary
• Sam Williams
  Sam Williams
  Sam Williams is an American journalist. He is perhaps best known as the author of a biography of software programmer Richard Stallman, Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software . Prior to beginning Free as in Freedom he met his wife Tracy. She had originally proposed the...
  
   - Free as in Freedom
• Bruce Sterling
  Bruce Sterling
  Michael Bruce Sterling is an American science fiction author, best known for his novels and his work on the Mirrorshades anthology, which helped define the cyberpunk genre.-Writings:...
  
   - The Hacker Crackdown
  The Hacker Crackdown
  The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier is a work of nonfiction by Bruce Sterling first published in 1992.The book discusses watershed events in the hacker subculture in the early 1990s...
  
  

Internet

• Ack Goldsmith, Tim Wu
  Tim Wu
  Tim Wu is a professor at Columbia Law School, the former chair of media reform group Free Press, and a writer for Slate Magazine. He is also a former Bernard L. Schwartz and Future Tense fellow at The New America Foundation...
  
   - Who Controls the Internet? lllusions of Borderless World
• Douglas Rushkoff
  Douglas Rushkoff
  Douglas Rushkoff is an American media theorist, writer, columnist, lecturer, graphic novelist and documentarian. He is best known for his association with the early cyberpunk culture, and his advocacy of open source solutions to social problems.Rushkoff is most frequently regarded as a media...
  
  - Cyberia: life in the trenches of hyperspace