Ask HN: What are your top 3 Comp Sci books?

Well there are currently four volumes of TAoCP, so I guess I'll drop Volume 2. I can't see myself ever even contemplating implementing a number system or pseudo-random algorithm from first principles.

Not that I am likely to implement much of the other three volumes. They're top because they remind me of how many sigma I am away from the long tail of CS.

"The C Programming Language" by the Dynamic Duo "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" "Design Patterns" by the Gang of Four

kind of an old school selection:

Deitel & Deitel (all of them?)

Kernighan & Ritchie - The C Programming Language

Numerical Recipes in C