<< RECOMMENDED BOOKS

Many people ask me what books they should read to get a basis for understanding how to get a solid basis in digital design. There are a few books I always recommend as starters: Computer Graphics for Java Programmers by Leen Ammeraal for its completeness, The C Programming Language (1st edition) by Kerninghan and Ritchie for its brevity, Passages in Modern Sculpture by Rosalind Krauss for its clarity, Theory and Design in the First Machine Age by Reyner Banham for its humor, Technics and Civilization by Lewis Mumford for its vision, Jim Blinn, A Trip Down the Graphics Pipeline for its deep understanding of computer graphics. If you wish to learn hardware I would also recommend that you get a Basic Stamp from parallaxinc.com. Not because it's a great piece of hardware but because it is one of the few systems with a good old-fashioned, thick printed manual.