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End-user computing

Here are entered works on computing done directly by the ultimate beneficiary of a computer system and usually involving personal computers, decision support systems, office automation, local area networks, etc.

See also what's at Wikipedia, your library, or elsewhere.

• Electronic data processing

• Watch What I Do: Programming by Demonstration, ed. by Allen Cypher (illustrated HTML at acypher.com)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Data Science at the Command Line (free online edition; originally published 2014), by Jeroen Janssens (illustrated HTML at datascienceatthecommandline.com)
• Evolving the High Performance Computing and Communications Initiative to Support the Nation's Information Infrastructure (1995), by National Research Council Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (page images with commentary at NAP)
• Information, Randomness and Incompleteness (second edition, 1990), by Gregory J. Chaitin (Postscript at Maine)
• Engaging Researchers with Data Management: The Cookbook (Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers, c2019), by Connie Clare, Maria J. Cruz, Elli Papadopoulou, James Savage, Marta Teperek, Yan Wang, Iza Witkowska, and Joanne Yeomans (multiple formats with commentary at Open Book Publishers)
• An Introduction to the Theory of Computation (c1989), by Eitan Gurari (illustrated HTML at Wayback Machine)
• How to Design Programs (second edition, c2014), by Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt, and Shriram Krishnamurthi (HTML at neu.edu)
• How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Programming and Computing (electronic version, 2002), by Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt, and Shriram Krishnamurthi (illustrated HTML with commentary at htdp.org)
• Introduction to Computing: Explorations in Language, Logic, and Machines (2011), by David Evans (PDF and HTML with commentary at computingbook.org)
• The Best of Creative Computing, ed. by David H. Ahl and Burchanel Green
  • volume 1 (1976): page images at atariarchives.org
  • volume 2 (1977): page images at atariarchives.org
  • volume 3 (1980): page images at atariarchives.org
• Ultimate Computing: Biomolecular Consciousness and Nanotechnology (1987), by Stuart R. Hameroff (HTML and PDF with commentary at quantumconsciousness.org)

• Open Distributed Systems (1996), by Jon Crowcroft
  • HTML in the UK
  • PDF in the UK
• Pro Git (second editions, 2014), by Scott Chacon (HTML with commentary at git-scm.com)
• Security Engineering: A Guide to Building Dependable Distributed Systems (second edition, 2008), by Ross Anderson (PDF files with commentary in the UK)
• The Tower and the Cloud: Higher Education in the Age of Cloud (c2008), ed. by Richard N. Katz (PDF and HTML files with commentary at Educause)

• Good Data (Theory on Demand #29; Amsterdam: Institute for Network Cultures, 2019), ed. by Angela Daly, S. Kate Devitt, and Monique Mann (multiple formats with commentary at networkcultures.org)

• Good Data (Theory on Demand #29; Amsterdam: Institute for Network Cultures, 2019), ed. by Angela Daly, S. Kate Devitt, and Monique Mann (multiple formats with commentary at networkcultures.org)

• RAIRO: Theoretical Informatics and Applications (partial serial archives)
• Theory of Computing (2005-) (full serial archives)
• Creative Computing, ed. by David H. Ahl (partial serial archives)
• The Computer Journal (partial serial archives)
• Computerworld (partial serial archives)
• Compute! (partial serial archives)

• The Network Turn: Changing Perspectives in the Humanities (Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2020), by Ruth Ahnert, Sebastian E. Ahnert, Catherine Nicole Coleman, and Scott Weingart (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at Cambridge University Press)

• AI for Everyone? Critical Perspectives (London: University of Westminster Press, c2021), ed. by Pieter Verdegem (multiple formats with commentary at University of Westminster Press)
• Artificial Intelligence and Games (2018), by Georgios N. Yannakakis and Julian Togelius (PDF with commentary at gameaibook.org)
• Artificial Intelligence and Responsive Optimization (second edition, 2003), by Mohammad Khosnevisan, Sukanto Bhattacharya, and Florentin Smarandache (PDF at UNM)
• Are We Spiritual Machines? Ray Kurzweil vs. the Critics of Strong A.I. (c2002), ed. by Jay W. Richards, contrib. by Ray Kurzweil, John R. Searle, Michael J. Denton, William A. Dembski, Thomas S. Ray, and George F. Gilder (at kurzweilai.net)
• Artificial Intelligence (third edition, reprinted with corrections; Reading, MA et al.: Addison-Wesley Pub. Co., 1993), by Patrick Henry Winston (PDF at MIT)
• The Age of Intelligent Machines (c1992), by Ray Kurzweil (at kurzweilai.net)
• The Boundaries of Humanity: Humans, Animals, Machines (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), ed. by James J. Sheehan and Morton Sosna (HTML at UC Press)
• Artificial Intelligence Through Prolog (1988), by Neil C. Rowe (HTML at nps.edu)
• How Mobile Robots can Self-Organise a Vocabulary (Berlin: Language Science Press, c2015), by Paul Vogt
  • PDF with commentary at langsci-press.org
  • PDF at OAPEN
• Applications of Robotics and Artificial Intelligence to Reduce Risk and Improve Effectiveness: A Study for the United States Army (1983), by National Research Council Commission on Engineering and Technical Systems (page images with commentary at NAP)
• When Things Start to Think (c1999), by Neil A. Gershenfeld (HTML with commentary at kurzweilai.net)
• Elements of Robotics (Cham: Springer Open, c2018), by M. Ben-Ari and Francesco Mondada (PDF and EPub with commentary at EPFL and Springer)
• Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp (c1992), by Peter Norvig (multiple formats with commentary at Github)
• From Bricks to Brains: The Embodied Cognitive Science of LEGO Robots (Edmonton: AU Press, c2010), by Michael Robert William Dawson, Brian Dupuis, and Michael Wilson (PDF with commentary at AU Press)
• The Computer Revolution in Philosophy: Philosophy, Science and Models of Mind (1978, with added notes and corrections), by Aaron Sloman (HTML and PDF with commentary in the UK)
• The Origin and Its Meaning, by Roger Ellman (PDF files at the-origin.org)

• Linkers and Loaders (prepublication version, c1999), by John R. Levine (multiple formats at iecc.com)
• The Second Book of Machine Language (1984), by Richard Mansfield (illustrated HTML at atariarchives.org)

• Sprouts: Working Papers on Information Systems (2000-) (full serial archives)
• Subject-Oriented Business Process Management (c2011), by Albert Fleischmann, Werner Schmidt, Christian Stary, Stefan Obermeier, and E. Börger (multiple formats with commentary at SpringerLink)
• Gamification at Work: Designing Engaging Business Software, by Janaki Kumar and Mario Herger (HTML with commentary at interaction-design.org)

• Samba-3 by Example: Practical Exercises to Successful Deployment (second edition, 2005), by John H. Terpstra (PDF at pearsoncmg.com)
• Using Samba (1999), by Robert Eckstein, David Collier-Brown, and Peter Kelly (HTML and PDF at oreilly.com)
• Web Client Programming with Perl (first edition, 1997), by Clinton Wong (illustrated HTML at oreilly.com)

• Mathematics and Computation: A Theory Revolutionizing Technology and Science (prepublication version, c2019), by Avi Wigderson (PDF with commentary at ias.edu)
• Think Complexity (second edition; Needham, MA: Green Tea Press, c2012), by Allen Downey (multiple formats at Green Tea Press)
• A New Kind of Science (Champaign, IL: Wolfram Media, c2002), by Stephen Wolfram (illustrated HTML at wolframscience.com)
• Algorithmic Information Theory (based on the third printing, 1990), by Gregory J. Chaitin (PDF at Maine)
• Algorithms and Complexity (first edition, 1994), by Herbert S. Wilf (PDF with commentary here at Penn)
• Cellular Automata and Complexity: Collected Papers, by Stephen Wolfram (PDF files at stephenwolfram.com)
• The Complexity of Boolean Functions (electronic edition), by Ingo Wegener (PDF with commentary at Trier)
• Information-Theoretic Incompleteness, by Gregory J. Chaitin (Postscript at Maine)
• The Unknowable, by Gregory J. Chaitin (illustrated HTML at Maine)
• Chaotic Logic: Language, Thought and Reality From the Perspective of Complex Systems Science (prepublication version), by Ben Goertzel (HTML at goertzel.org)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.