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24 alternatives to An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language
Stephen Wolfram's new book on the Wolfram Language
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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The power of the Wolfram language in the cloud
2014 · wolfram.com · its alternatives →
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Broad span of algorithms, covered in clear depth
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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"The Bible" of all fundamental algorithms for programming
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Code▲76The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
2016 · namecheap.com · its alternatives →
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Clever solutions to classic programming problems
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Applying Patterns to Solve Design Problems
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
- 7IW
The book page links to a blog post that explains how I got about it (and has a link to sample content), but the TL&DR is that I could not find a lot of books that were on "our" history _and_ were larded with technical details. So I set about writing one, and some five years later I'm happy to share the result. I think it's one of the few "computer history" books that has tons of code, but correct me if I'm wrong (I wrote this both to tell a story and to learn :-)). My favorite languages are Smalltalk and Lisp, but as an Emacs user, I've been using the latter for much longer and for my…
Feb 2026 · berksoft.ca · its alternatives →
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A guide to functional programming
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Computer Science of Human Decisions
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The authoritative resource for learning Go
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The art of educated guessing + opportunistic problem solving
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · getprogrammingwithclojure.com · its alternatives →
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A beginners visual approach to Bayesian data analysis
2017 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Data Science and Python, starting at zero
2015 · joelgrus.com · its alternatives →
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The computer science of human decisions
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Great book with a low barrier to entry for learning Haskell
2016 · haskellbook.com · its alternatives →
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Interviews with the 15 most interesting computer programmers
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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I started writing this book 10 years ago in JavaScript, got through a few chapters (asymptotic notation, basic techniques, start of sorting), and then abandoned it. Recently I picked it back up, converted everything to TypeScript, and used AI (Zenflow [1] + Claude Opus 4.6) to complete the remaining chapters. I provided the structure, direction, and initial chapters; the AI generated the bulk of the remaining content under a spec-driven workflow. The book covers roughly a first 1-2 year CS curriculum: sorting, dynamic programming, graph algorithms, trees, heaps, hash tables, and more. All…
Mar 2026 · amoilanen.github.io · its alternatives →
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A Guide to Better Problem Solving
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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