source: Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (blog.fogus.me) Fundamental Concepts in Programming Languages  by Christopher Strachey Why Functional Programming Matters  by John Hughes An Axiomatic Basis for Computer Programming  by C. A. R. HOARE Time, Clocks, and the Ordering of Events in a Distributed System  by Leslie Lamport (1978) On Understanding Types, Data Abstraction, and [...]

Although this article appears to be specific for Computer Science majors, much of it overlaps with software engineering. It outlines some extremely useful and interesting things that all Computer Science/Software Engineering majors should know. The four main questions that this article answers are: What should every student know to get a good job? What should [...]

There are many Computer Science timelines out there that describe the major milestones in the field. Most of these detail things such as the founding of major companies involved in Computer Science. This doesn’t necessarily give us a good understanding of the true history of Computer Science and of the major breakthroughs which occurred after [...]