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ityouknow/book-100
最值得推荐的100本计算机书籍
A Chinese-language list of 100 recommended computer science books, ranked by a formula combining Douban (China's Goodreads) rating and vote count. It's a static markdown table with no content beyond the list itself. Useful primarily for Chinese-speaking developers looking for reading recommendations.
The ranking methodology is explicit and mechanical — score = vote count + rating, with cutoffs at 8.5 rating and 300 votes, which at least makes the selection criteria reproducible. The list covers a reasonable breadth of topics: algorithms, OS, networking, language-specific books, and career development. Including Douban ratings and vote counts lets you judge how much consensus is behind each entry.
The repo is a single markdown file with no original writing — no annotations, no explanations of why a book is on the list, nothing you couldn't get from a Douban search yourself. Abandoned since 2020, so the list won't reflect anything published in the last five years. The ranking formula (votes + rating, where votes are in the thousands and ratings top out at 10) means vote count completely dominates — a book with 4471 votes and a 9.4 rating beats one with 300 votes and a 9.9 regardless of actual quality. Only 45 books are in the table despite the repo claiming 100.