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  Understanding the digital world: what you need to know about computers, the Internet, privacy, and security
Kernighan B., Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2017. 256 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-691176-54-3)

The digital world is changing very rapidly with advancements in the embedded hardware and software on which it depends. Both the hardware and software changes inflict concerns about privacy and security over the Internet and for its us...
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Feb 9 2018  
  The Go programming language
Donovan A., Kernighan B., Addison-Wesley Professional, Old Tappan, NJ, 2016. 400 pp.  Type: Book (978-0-134190-44-0)

In 1978, Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie published The C programming language [1], the first book about C and the definitive guide to the language for decades. Kernighan has now teamed up with Alan Donovan to write The Go ...
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Jan 22 2016  
  D is for digital: what a well-informed person should know about computers and communications
Kernighan B., CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, North Charleston, SC, 2011. 238 pp.  Type: Book (978-1-463733-89-6)

The subtitle of this book sums it up quite nicely. The entire phenomenon of computers and digital communication has evolved and at least partially matured within my lifetime. It is now universally accepted that the “well-info...
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Mar 12 2013  
  The practice of programming
Kernighan B., Pike R., Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co, Inc., Boston, MA, 1999. 267 pp.  Type: Book (9780201615869)

The purpose of this book is to help programmers improve theirefficiency; it is not a programming course. The first chapter isdedicated to programming style. Programs are written to be read byhumans, not by machines. Very often, program...
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Apr 1 1999  
  The awk programming language
Aho A., Kernighan B., Weinberger P., Addison-Wesley Longman Publishing Co, Inc., Boston, MA, 1987. 210 pp.  Type: Book (9780201079814)

When I first saw the title of this book, I said to myself Are they kidding? AWK is just one of those handy Unix tools for making simple data filters. I suppose its notation can be considered a language, but is it not a gross overstatem...
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Jun 1 1988  

   
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