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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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Broad span of algorithms, covered in clear depth
2015 · its alternatives →
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"The Bible" of all fundamental algorithms for programming
2015 · its alternatives →
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2019 · getprogrammingwithclojure.com · its alternatives →
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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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2015 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2017 · retool.in · its alternatives →
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2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The art of educated guessing + opportunistic problem solving
2016 · its alternatives →
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Great book with a low barrier to entry for learning Haskell
2016 · its alternatives →
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