COMPUTER SCIENCE AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY BOOKS FOR GATE

S.NO. BOOKS

1. Theory of Computation: Regular languages and finite automata, Context free languages and Push-down automata, Recursively enumerable sets and Turing machines, Undecidability.
2. Textbook :"Formal Languages and Automata theory " ,J.D.Ullman etal
3. Algorithms: Analysis, Asymptotic notation, Notions of space and time complexity, Worst and average case analysis; Design: Greedy approach, Dynamic programming, Divide-and-conquer; Tree and graph traversals, Connected components, Spanning trees, Shortest paths; Hashing, Sorting, Searching.Asymptotic analysis (best, worst, average cases) of time and space, upper and lower bounds, Basic concepts of complexity classes – P, NP, NP- hard, NP-complete.
4. Textbook :"Introduction to algorithms" Cormen etal
5. "Computer Algorithms" Horowitz and Sahani
6. Digital Logic: Logic functions, Minimization, Design and synthesis of combinational and sequential circuits; Number representation and computer arithmetic (fixed and floating point).
7. Textbook :"Digital Logic circuits and Design " by Morris Mano
8. Computer Organization and Architecture: Machine instructions and addressing modes, ALU and data- path, CPU control design, Memory interface,I/O interface (Interrupt and DMA mode), Instruction pipelining, Cache and main memory, Secondary storage.
9. Textbook :"Computer Organisation " by Morris Mano
10. "Computer Architecture " by Briggs {pipelining}
11. Programming and Data Structures: Programming in C;Functions, Recursion, Parameter passing, Scope,Binding; Abstract data types, Arrays, Stacks,Queues, Linked Lists, Trees, Binary search trees,Binary heaps.
12. Textbook :"Data structures" by Horowitz and Sahani
13. "Data structures " Schaumm's outline
14. "Data structures and Algorithms" by Weiss etal
15. "Programming with C " - Byron Gottfried
16. "Principles of Programming Languages " by Robert W Sebesta Addison Wesley
17. Compiler Design: Lexical analysis, Parsing, Syntax directed translation, Runtime environments, Intermediate and target code generation, Basics of code optimization.
18. Textbook :"Principles of Compiler Design " Aho , Ullman
19. "Systems Programming " by John . J Donovan
20. Operating System: Processes, Threads, Inter-process communication, Concurrency, Synchronization,Deadlock, CPU scheduling, Memory management and virtual memory, File systems, I/O systems, Protection and security.
21. Textbook :"Operating system concepts" by Abraham Silberschatz and Peter Galvin
22. "Operating system" Tenenbaum
23. Databases: ER-model, Relational model (relational algebra, tuple calculus), Database design (integrity constraints, normal forms), Query languages (SQL), File structures (sequential files, indexing, B and B+ trees), Transactions and concurrency control.
24. Textbook :"Database Management systems" Raghu RamaKrishnan
25. "Database system concepts " Silberschatz , Korth Sudarshan
26. "Principles of Database Systems " J.D.Ullman
27. Computer Networks: ISO/OSI stack, LAN technologies (Ethernet, Token ring), Flow and error control techniques, Routing algorithms, Congestion control, TCP/UDP and sockets, IP(v4), Application layer protocols (icmp, dns, smtp, pop, ftp, http); Basic concepts of hubs, switches, gateways, and routers. Network security – basic concepts of public key and private key cryptography, digital signature, firewalls.
28. Textbook : "Computer Networks " - Tenenbaum