Which book is reffered by students preparing for IOI?
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A nice and gentle introduction into the world of computers is (also see book review by Peter G. Neumann in ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes 10(2):23-27 (April 1985)):
The Sachertorte Algorithm and Other Antidotes to Computer Anxiety.
John Shore.
Penguin Books, 1985.
A smooth introduction to computer science, including programming, is
Introductory Computer Science: Bits of Theory and Bytes of Practice.
A. K. Dewdney.
Computer Science Press, 1996
The next three books give a good impression of the breadth of the computing field. These books make excellent reading material. They are neither real textbooks (though some courses have been taught from them) nor real reference works (though you can easily find a lot of basic things in them). They show the "real thing" and do require a persistent mind.
The New Turing Omnibus: 66 Excursions in Computer Science.
A. K. Dewdney.
Computer Science Press, 1993.
Algorithmics: The Spirit of Computing.
David Harel.
3rd edition, Addison-Wesley, 2004.
What Computing Is All About.
Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut.
Springer Verlag, 1993. (Errata