UGC NET BEST REFERENCE BOOKS FOR COMPUTER SCIENCE

This article lists the most important books for UGC NET Computer Science preparation. The books listed below cover entire UGC NET syllabus.

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Unit - 1 : Discrete Structures and Optimization 

SUBJECT	BOOK NAME	AUTHOR
Discrete Structures	Discrete Mathematics	Seymour Lipschutz
Optimization	Operation Research - An Introduction	Hamdy A. Taha

Unit - 2 : Computer System Architecture

SUBJECT	BOOK NAME	AUTHOR
Computer System Architecture	Computer System Architecture	M.Morris Mano

Unit - 3 : Programming Languages and Computer Graphics

SUBJECT	BOOK NAME	AUTHOR
Language Design and Translation Issues.	Programming Languages – Design and Implementation	Terrence W. Pratt,  Marvin V. Zelkowitz
Programming with C++	Object Oriented Programming with C++	E. Balagurusamy
Programming Language	The C Programming Language	Dennis M. Ritchie, Brian W. Kernighan
Computer Graphics	Computer Graphics, C Version	Donald D. Hearn, M. Pauline Baker

Unit - 4 : Database Management Systems

SUBJECT	BOOK NAME	AUTHOR
Fundamentals of Database Systems	Fundamentals of Database Systems	Ramez Elmasri, Shamkant B. Navathe
NOSQL	Professional NOSQL	Shashank Tiwari

Unit - 5 : System Software and Operating systems 

SUBJECT	BOOK NAME	AUTHOR
System software	Microprocessor Architecture, Programming, and Applications with the 8085.	Ramesh S. Gaonkar
Operating System	Operating Systems concepts.	Silberschatz, Galvin, Gagne
UNIX Operating System	UNIX Concepts and Applications.	Sumitabha Das

Unit - 6 : Software Engineering

SUBJECT	BOOK NAME	AUTHOR
Software Engineering	Software Engineering: A Practitioner's Approach	Roger S. Pressman

Unit - 7 : Data Structures and Algorithms

SUBJECT	BOOK NAME	AUTHOR
Algorithms	Introduction to Algorithms	Thomas H. Cormen, Charles E. Leiserson, Ronald L. Rivest, Clifford Stein
Algorithms	Computer Algorithms	Ellis Horowitz, Sartaj Sahani, Sanguthevar Rajasekaran
Data Structures	Data Structures using C	Aaron M. Tenebaum, Yedidyah Langsam, Moshe J. Augenstein

Unit - 8 : Theory of Computation and Compilers

SUBJECT	BOOK NAME	AUTHOR
Theory of Computation	An introduction to Formal Languages and Automata	Peter Linz
Theory of Computation	Introduction to Automata theory, Languages, and Computation	John E. Hopcroft, Rajeev Motwani, Jeffrey D. Ullman
Theory of Computation	Introduction to the Theory of Computation	Michael Sipser
Compilers	Compilers Principles, Techniques, & Tools	Alfred V. Aho, Monica S. Lam, Ravi Sethi, Jeffrey D. Ullman

Unit - 9 : Data Communication and Computer Networks

SUBJECT	BOOK NAME	AUTHOR
Computer Networks	Computer Networks	Andrew S. Tanenbaum
Data Communication and Computer Networks	Data Communications and Networking	Behrouz A. Forouzan
Data Communication and Computer Networks	Data and Computer Communications	William Stallings

Unit -10 : Artificial Intelligence 

SUBJECT	BOOK NAME	AUTHOR
Artificial Intelligence	Artificial Intelligence : A Modern Approach	Stuart Russell, Peter Norvig
Artificial Intelligence	Artificial Intelligence	Kevin Knight, Elaine Rich, Shivashankar B. Nair
Fuzzy Logic	Fuzzy Logic with Engineering Applications	Timothy J. Ross