I've often seen SICP recommended as a good overall introduction to computer science and programming although I haven't fully read it myself. It is available for free online: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/
I've read SICP, and while it is a brilliant book, I think it is a really bad suggestion here, given what the op seems to be interested in.
SICP is a great introduction to programming topics like recursion, abstraction, and implementation of programming languages. It teaches a way of thinking about programming, which is quite abstract. It is utterly unhelpful if you're interested, as the op seems to be, in the more practical concepts of real-world systems, and the internet / web-development in particular.
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I've often seen SICP recommended as a good overall introduction to computer science and programming although I haven't fully read it myself. It is available for free online: http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/
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I've read SICP, and while it is a brilliant book, I think it is a really bad suggestion here, given what the op seems to be interested in.
SICP is a great introduction to programming topics like recursion, abstraction, and implementation of programming languages. It teaches a way of thinking about programming, which is quite abstract. It is utterly unhelpful if you're interested, as the op seems to be, in the more practical concepts of real-world systems, and the internet / web-development in particular.