Hoosgot

http://blog.whatfettle.com/2008/10/27/suggested-books-for-an-aspiring-hacker/ asks Hoosgot,

I’ve been asked by the parents of an enthusiastic 14 year old computer nut for some fun “ICT” reads. Resisting an urge to cry “oxymoron”, I morphed what sounded like a request to reinforce the current curriculum of government procurement writ large in today’s schools into a subversive introduction to old school free software and hacker culture: Hackers - Steven Levy’s nice potted history of hackerdom from the MIT Tech Model Railroad Club to the Homebrew Computer Club and the resulting Silicon Valley microcomputer game hackers. Also highly recommended is Crypto by the same author. The Soul of a New Machine - Tracy Kidder. The Pulitzer prize winning story of pressured development in the days of Microcomputers. Riveting, with some …

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