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

A reference book on classic cryptographic algorithms and protocols.

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

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

A children's novel by Clifford B. Hicks about codes and hidden information.

Introductory textbook on the C programming language.

An O'Reilly collection of Python recipes with commentary from community contributors.

Nisan and Schocken's book on building a computer from first principles.

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.