Recommendations please

[Kevin Russell]

Tim Peters wrote:
> 
> [searcher7 at my-deja.com]
> > Then can you tell me what is the best book for non-programmers that
> > you've ever seen? :-)
> >
> > Darren Harris (Searcher7 at mail.con2.com)
> 
> "Alice in Wonderland".  It's a delight!  And it has more to teach about
> programming than you'll realize until you've been programming for, oh, about
> five years <wink>.

For general programming, absolutely.  But there are better books for certain
specific topics.  E.g., for recursion you just can't beat _The Cat in the 
Hat_.

-- Kevin