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Best Books for GATE CSE with Relevant Chapters to Read

Whenever you have a doubt regarding some definition or concept, standard books must be the first place to go. The below table gives the recommended standard textbooks to be followed for GATE CSE. Amazon buy links for the hardcopy of the book and downloadable ebook links are provided wherever available. Relevant chapters to be read as per GATE CSE 2022 syllabus are also provided for each subject.

Standard books are the reference books for GATE CSE. You need not read every line of the book or remember everything. GATE being a conceptual exam, what you need is correct understanding rather than memorization skill to reproduce whatever is in the textbook. For example, if you already know how to normalize a relation to BCNF or to convert an NFA to DFA, then you can skip reading those portions from the text book.

Relevant Chapters to be Read from Standard Books for GATE CSE

Subject Book Link Author Name Edition Ebook Relevant Chapters

Discrete Mathematics and Probability

Rosen

7

7th Edition

1, 2,
4.1,4.2,4.3,
6-11

Digital Logic

Morris Mano

Ebook

1.1-1.6,
2.1-2.7,
3, 4, 6,
7.1-7.7

Programming

Dennis Richie

2

Ebook

1-6

Data Structures and Algorithms


 

Cormen

3

Ebook

1-4,
6-8,
10-12,
15,16,
22-24

Theory of Computation


Sipser

3

Ebook

1-5

Computer Networks

 

Peterson Davie

4

Ebook

1,
2.3-2.7,
4.1-4.2,
4.3.1-4.3.4,
5.1, 5.2,
6.3,
9.1

Computer Organization and Architecture

Hennessy & Patterson, Hamacher

5

Hennessy Ebook,
Hamacher Ebook

1.8, 1.9
2.1,
3.1, 3.2,
A.1-A.7,
B.1-B.5,
C.1-C.2
Chapter 4 (I/O) from Hamacher

Operating System

Galvin

9

Ebook 

1,
2.1-2.5,
3.1-3.4,
4.1-4.3,
5.1-5.8,
6.1-6.3,
7,
8.1-8.6,
9.1-9.7,
10.1-10.4,
12.1-12.5

Databases

Thomas Connolly

4

 Ebook

3-7,
12-14,
22.1-22.3,22.5,
23.1-23.4

Compiler Design

Aho& Ullman

2

 Ebook

1 (Intro),
2, 3.1-3.4,
4-6,
7.1-7.3,
9.1-9.2

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Books given in the above table are not the only good ones available for each subject. So if you need more options you can see them at More Book Options for GATE CSE

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