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I spend all my time reading autistic computer science textbooks (SICP is my favourite). The nearest I've come to reading anything outside this realm is Godel Escher Bach.
How do I into the classics? Specifically Greek philosophy. I'm completely ignorant to their culture and mythology. Where do I start?

>> No.15744360

>>15744000
Recommend me some autistic comfy computer science books plz

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>> No.15744372

>>15744000
what do you do with what you learned from those books?

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Iliad and Odyssey
Orphic Hymns
Anthology of Classical Myth
Early Greek Philosophy by Jonathan Barnes
Euthydemus, Protagoras, Alcibiades.
Theages, Charmides, Laches, Lysis
Hippias major, Hippias minor, Ion
Meno, Euthyphro, Clitophon, Apology.
>Elias and David: Introductions to Philosophy with Olympiodorus: Introduction to Logic
Porphyry's Isagoge
Minos, Laws, Epinomis, Letters
>Aristotle's Categories
>Aristotle's Physics
Cratylus, Theætetus, Sophist, Statesman
>Aristotle's Metaphysics
Symposium, Phædrus, Gorgias
Philebus, Crito, Phaedo
Proclus - Elements of Theology (at least the first two dozen propositions)
Parmenides
Republic, Timæus, Critias
>Aristotle's De Anima
>Orpheus and the Roots of Platonism
>Aristotle and Other Platonists
>Ancient Epistemology (Key Themes in Ancient Philosophy)
>From Plato to Platonism
The Epicurus Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia
The Stoics Reader: Selected Writings and Testimonia (Hackett Classics)
Sextus Empiricus: Outlines of Scepticism (Cambridge Texts in the History of Philosophy
Hermetica: The Greek Corpus Hermeticum and the Latin Asclepius in a New English Translation
The Plotinus Reader
Iamblichus' De Mysteriis
>Philosophy as a Rite of Rebirth
Damascius' Problems and solutions Concerning First Principles

This covers all ancient philosophy.

>> No.15746762

>>15744372
I assume he works as a programmer

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>>15744360
If you wanna approach software from a theoretical point-of-view, SICP is the golden standard. Pretty much nobody uses LISP/Scheme in production anymore, but it's worth the read.
If you're interested in answering the question "How does code actually run on a machine?", then Code by Microsoft Press is really good.
Another good resource: https://teachyourselfcs.com

>> No.15746921

>>15746762
why would a programmer need to know computer science?

>> No.15746941

>>15746762
and my question has yet to be answered

>> No.15747068

>>15746921
Because that's what you are if you major in computer science, isn't it?

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>> No.15747086

>>15746915
No Donald Knuth?

>> No.15747098

>>15744000
Start of with juden Petestein's "wash Ur penis"

>> No.15747122

>>15747085
I'm sorry I didn't mean to offend you, I don't know anything about computer science

>> No.15747296

>>15744000
>SICP

>> No.15747490

>>15746921
Why would a computer scientist need to know how to program?

>> No.15748796

>>15744000
>Godel Escher Bach.
I've been on this board for years and didn't learn of this book until someone made a thread about it a few days ago. It's weird to see it mentioned again.

>> No.15749396

>>15748796
I thought it was pretty famous.

>> No.15749432

>>15744000
thank you based retard

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>>15744000
this book would be a good start.
it's a survey of the history of western philosophy focusing on the continued impact of plato and aristotle.