1) Maths :- No books..

gateforum notes enough

2) TOC :- No books.. gateforum notes enough
3) OS- Galvin
4) CO- Hamacher (Very good book)
5) Digital logic :
No books.. gateforum notes enough
6) Networking :- william stallings and foruzan(Stallings- numericals , foruzantheory)
7)DBMS :- Korth
8) Data structure :- Tanenbum
9) Algorithm :- Cormen
10) Web tech :- Internet
11) S/w Engg Gateforum book and pressman
12)Compilers :- No books.. gateforum notes enough (Recommended book is Aho ullma
n)

Subject Wise Books to follow

To become GATE topper, you need
1>>Good technical knowledge
2>>Good understanding of Basic Concepts
3>>Ability to apply the knowledge and concepts on variety of problems
To Develop 1 and 2 you will need to read and understand reference
books, to develop 3 you will need to solve the problems. Now question is from w
here to get the problems or the MCQs, the answer is the problems are given at t
he back of every chapter in the reference books, you will need to solve those p
roblems,may be not all of them. Problems reveal lot of truth and clear our misc
onception and false convictions. And GATE has certain property that lot of Ques
tions in it are based on concepts that are revealed in certain problems in ref
erence books. So its really really important to have a shot at the problems.
DISCRETE MATHEMATICS
I started my preparation with discrete maths, and I would recommend you also to
start with this perticular subject because this is the subject from where Comp
uter Science spreads out. Understanding of this subject is very important. I us
ed following books:
1>> Discrete maths and its applications By Kenneth Rosen
This is an excellent book for GATE preps. Lot of problems are given at the end
of every chapter plus answers are also given to odd numbered exercises. The exp
laination in this book is really very good and easy to understand . This book is m
ust read for GATE preps.
2>>book by Tremblay and Manohar
I recommend you to read this book after you have read Rosen s book. The contents
in this book is hard to comprehend. You need to have your basics cleared before
you attempt this book. This book is also a must read . I also have the lecture n
otes on discrete maths from some prof at McGuire university the advanced counti
ng and recurrence relation part is good.
ALGORITHMS
I recommend to you to read this subject along with Discrete maths or after you
have completed discrete maths. I used only one book for this
subject and found that to be more than enough for GATE.

1>> Introduction to Algorithms By T.H.Cormen et al.

This is THE book for Algorithms. The Book is simply brilliant, it makes you under
stand every details of Algorithms. So this book is a must read. Although I did
not read the entire thing. Here is the list of chapters that I had read. If you
are interested of course you can read the entire book.
Chapter 1,2,3,4[excluding 4.4],6,7[excluding 7.3],8,10,11[excluding 11.5],12[ex
cluding 12.4],18,22,23,24[excluding 24.4 and 24.5] for NP-Completeness you can
read 34 also. In addition to this book I strongly recommend you to see the vide
o lectures from MIT. The lectures are given by
Lieserson[who BTW is also one of the authors of CLRS] and Erik demaine. The
lectures are absolutely brilliant. You may download them from Free Online Course
Materials
DATASTRUCTURES
I did not read this subject exclusively. I mostly participated in discussions i
n Algorithms and datastructures communities on orkut . That is i think more tha
n enough.
THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
I initially tried to decipher Ullman s book but I found the content too much for
my brain to comprehend. So I switched to Introduction toComputer Theory By Daniel
Cohen. The
contents in this book are lucid. Also solving or atleast attempting the problems
in
the exercises is a must. But its really great if you could read Ullman.
DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS
I used Korth and Navathe for this. Initially I read korth because it is lucid a
nd then only for normalization i read Navathe. The database design part in kort
h is difficult so read this part with utmost concentration and you may require
several readings before you begin to understand things.
OPERATING SYSTEMS
Read this from following books:
1>>Operating System Concepts By Galvin et al.
2>>Stallings
Attempt problems in Stallings they are very important especially problems on me
mory management and virtual memory. In Galvin the theory on memory management i
s excellent.
Digital Design
Read Digital Design By morris mano [period].
COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE
Read this from following books
1>> Computer Architecture By Morris mano
2>> Computer Organization By Zacky,hamacher
3>> Computer Organization Hardware/Software Interface By
Hennessey and Patterson
Read book 1 almost completely then read memory system from book 2 then
you can read
book 3, I had read only the performance measurement chapter from book
3 as it is not given in any other book and also solve numericals fromexercises t
hey are
very very important. I recommend you to read this
subject after Digital Design .
COMPUTER NETWORKS
I had read this subject only from forouzan and had read some chapters from Come
r s book. Attempt the exercises from forouzan they are
important.

C programming
You read this from the C programming language by kernighan and Ritchie that is mo
re than enough plus spend some time in actually
programming in C that is the best way you can learn C.
C++
I dont know C++ much and I did not read anything for C++. Dont be spoiled, you c
an read C++ complete reference if
you wish to.
Compiler Design
People say Ullman s book is excellent so you can read it from Ullman if you believe
People . In the final phase of your preps try to solve GATE papers. The answers for
the GATE papers are not present anywhere but still you should attempt them an
yway. This will give youconfidence that you can actually solve GATE. You can re
ad all the subjects given here you can skip one or two if you dont have much ti
me But more important thing is to MASTER atleast 2 or 3 subjects. Also actively pa
rticipate in discussions at GATE CS or GATE CS/IT 2009 and Algorithms and Data
structures community in orkut - that helps alot in patching few loopholes in ou
r concepts
and enhancing your problem solving skills. Thats it guys,this much is I think en
ough to crack GATE. You can ofcourse
Device your own methodsand set of books. Just be confident you can do it!