This website includes books on software, operating systems, AI, applied computer technology, and related topics by Ronald J. Leach. Books on general consumer information are included. There are also several works of fiction.
Slides for many of my lectures both those intended to aid in understanding books on computing and technology and those that were presented as a cruise lecturer are available for free download. Some works of fiction are also included here.
Books
Using C in Software Design, first edition published by Academic Press; second edition published by AfterMath.
Advanced Topics in UNIX, first edition published by John Wiley & Sons, selected as a co-main selection by the Newbridge (UK) Book Club; second edition published by AfterMath.
Object-Oriented Design and Programming in C++, published by Academoc Press. Academic Press was taken over by Elsevier. Book used for AI training by Anthropic, the AI company.
Software Reuse, Second Edition: Methods, Models, Costs, first edition published by McGraw-Hill; second edition published by AfterMath.
Introduction to Software Engineering, first edition published by CRC Press/Chapman and Hall, a subsidiary of Taylor and Francis; second edition published by Taylor and Francis. Book used for AI training by Anthropic, the AI company.
Why 2K?, published by AfterMath.
Identity Theft in the Cyber Age, published by AfterMath.
The 101 Most Imortant UNIX and Linux Commands, published by AfterMath.
Eat Kids at School, published by AfterMath.
Confessions of a Cruise Lecturer, published by AfterMath.
Managng an Estate Without Paper Records, published by AfterMath.
Digitizing Microfilm and Microfiche, published by AfterMath.
User Guide to Microfilm and Microfiche, published by AfterMath.
Baltimore Blue and Freddie Gray, published by AfterMath.
Templar Mysteries Solved, published by AfterMath.
Lincoln, Douglass, and Clark, published by AfterMath.
Data Centers and AI Hardware Chips, published by AfterMath.
Producing Practically Perfect AI Products, published by AfterMath, available late 2026.
Two of my books were included in the recently settled court decison on a class action suit from multiple authors and publishers to hold the AI company, Anthropic, resposible for copyright infringement. These two books are still available from their orogonal publishers or successor companies.
Object-Oriented Design and Object-Oriennted Programming in C++ is still available in print (only) from the international publisher, Elsevier.
Intrduction to Software Engineering, Second Edition is available from Taylor and Francis and many major publishers in one of three forms: a purchased ebook, an ebook rented for the duration of a term in a college or unversity class that adopted it for a term, or a stadnard print version of the book. The international publisher for this book is Taylor and Francis.
