Addison-Wesley
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Addison-Wesley is a book publishing imprint of Pearson PLC, best known for computer books.
Melbourne Wesley Cummings founded Addison-Wesley in 1942, with first book published by Addison-Wesley being MIT professor Francis Weston Sears' Mechanics. Its first computer book was Programs for an Electronic Digital Computer, by Wilkes, Wheeler, and Gill. In 1970, Addison-Wesley acquired W.A. Benjamin Company, and merge with Benjamin Cummings in 1977. It was purchased by Pearson PLC in 1988.[1] Addison-Wesley distributes its technical titles through the Safari Books Online e-reference service.
- The Art of Computer Programming by Donald Knuth
- Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation For Computer Science by Ronald Graham, Donald Knuth, and Oren Patashnik
- Programming Ruby (First edition) by Dave Thomas and Andrew Hunt
- Code Reading by Diomidis Spinellis
- The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
- The C++ Programming Language by Bjarne Stroustrup
- Software Architecture in Practice by Len Bass, Paul Clements, Rick Kazman