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A children's handbook of codes, ciphers and secret writing.

Charles Petzold's book explaining how computers work from basic principles.

Al Sweigart's book teaching programming by implementing and breaking ciphers.

Simon Singh's popular history of codes and ciphers, with a youth edition.

A reference book on classic cryptographic algorithms and protocols.

Introductory textbook on the C programming language.

A classic book on PC graphics programming and performance optimization.

An introduction to atomic physics, quantum mechanics and precision spectroscopy with no college prerequisites.

A memoir by former Facebook executive Sarah Wynn-Williams about the company's leadership.

A science fiction novel series later adapted for television.

Fred Brooks' classic book of essays on software project management.

A free collaborative online encyclopedia.

A science fiction novel by Peter Watts that explores consciousness and perception.

A book by David Graeber on the history of debt, credit and money.

A framework for organising technical documentation into tutorials, how-tos, reference and explanation.

A website with crowdsourced audio recordings of how native speakers pronounce words.

Tom Wolfe's critique of modernist architecture.

A short essay by Richard Cook on the nature of failure in complex systems.

Nick Bostrom's book on the risks of advanced artificial intelligence.

A 2015 film about the 2008 housing and credit collapse.