Don't call your self a programmer until you've read "The Art of Computer Programming"
Apart from Alan Turing, Bill Gates, Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie. Donald Knuth is another titan in the computer world.
He is a Stanford professor emeritus and the author of "The Art of Computer Programming," a multivolume set of books dedicated to the serious practitioner of Computer Science.
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The set has truly a special place in information technology or computer science world. To understand his books, one needs to take a serious time off to read those books and re-read them again.
If you think that you're a programmer just because you can write a program in your sleep. Well...
Bill Gates once said, “If you think you’re a really good programmer… read Art of Computer Programming… You should definitely send me a résumé if you can read the whole thing.”
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