• Theory of Algorithms
• Algorithmic Information Theory
• Computer Games / Game Engines / Cheap Cave
• Computer Graphics
• Artificial Life
• Programming Languages
• Data Structures and Algorithms
• Operating Systems
• Computer Networking
• Mobile Computing
• HCI (Human Computer Interaction)
• Artificial Intelligence
• Computer Security
• Programmable Hardware
• Quantum Computing
• Membrane Computing
• Unconventional Computing

• Claude Shannon
• Vannevar Bush
• Doug Engelbart
• Larry Wall
• Rodney Brooks
• to write
  • John von Neumann
  • John McCarthy
  • Marvin Minsky
  • Charles Babbage / Ada Lovelace
  • Kurt Goedel
  • Alan Turing
  • David Hilbert
  • Alan Perlis
  • Alan Kay
  • Daniel Hillis
  • Donald Knuth
  • Ken Thompson
  • etc+
• and more . ..
  • Atanasoff Mauchly Eckert (who did build it first?+ )
  • Konrad Zuse

via Teach Yourself Computer Science…

• Programming: SICP (aka the Wizard Book) and accompanying lectures, How To Design Programs (you're going to want DrRacket for these)
• Architecture: The Elements of Computing Systems (aka Nand2Tetris) and accompanying course
• Algorithms and Data Structures: lectures for the Algorithm Design Manual
• Mathematics: Discrete Mathematics (PostScript file!), Essence of Linear Algebra video series
• Operating Systems: Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
• Networking: Wireshark Labs from Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach
• Databases: Readings in Database Systems (aka the Red Book), UC Berkeley CS 186
• Languages and Compilers: Stanford Compilers course, Make a Lisp
• Distributed Systems: Distributed Systems

also…

• Dictionary of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Problems of http://www.nist.gov/dads/
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-4.html#%_toc_start
• Parsing Techniques - A Practical Guide http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dick/PTAPG.html
• Common Lisp the Language http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/cltl2.html
• “On Lisp” by Paul Graham http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisp.html
• An Introduction to Programming with Threads http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/birrel89introduction.html
• a basic introduction to monads, monadic programming and IO http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~nww/Monad.html

• Version Control systems + discussion
• Reverse Engineering
• bio-engineering (“Punctuated Equilibrium in Software Evolution”) http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0307201
• what does software have to do with architecture?
• http://web.onetel.com/~hibou/Software%20Architects.html
• patterns of software http://www.dreamsongs.com/NewFiles/PatternsOfSoftware.pdf
• http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ArchitectsDontCode
• Wrong Analogy? http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2003/3/13/211831/159