## Books online
+ * Steven Levy, [Hackers, Heroes of the Compuer Revolution](http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/729): chapter 1 tells the story of the birth of hacking at MIT in the 1950s
* Abelson and Sussman, [Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs](https://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html): the classic textbook for the famous 6.001
* Eric Raymond, [The Art of Unix Programming](http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/index.html): also explains a lot of design
* Mark Pilgrim, [Dive Into Python](http://diveintopython.org/): "a Python book for experienced programmers"