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2498 favorite 7831	I'm trying to amass a list of programming books that are freely available on the Internet. The books can be about a particular programming language or about computers in general. What are some freely available programming books on the Internet? creative-commons share edited May 21 at 15:28 community wiki 115 revs, 75 users 12% xenoterracide
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Meta-Lists 25 Free Computer Science Ebooks Book Training - On Video Cheat Sheets (Free) CodePlex List of Free E-Books Free Tech Books Galileo Computing (German) How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Computing and Programming Microsoft Press: Free E-Books MindView Inc O'Reilly's Open Books Project Sofware Program Managers Network TechBooksForFree.com Theassayer.org Wikibooks: Programming Graphics Programming DirectX manual (draft) Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming (draft) GPU Gems GPU Gems 2 - ch 8,14,18,29,30 as pdf GPU Gems 3 Graphics Programming Black Book ShaderX series Language Agnostic 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know Algorithms and Data-Structures (PDF) Algorithms (draft) The Architecture of Open Source Applications The Art of Unix Programming Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review Binary Trees The Cathedral and the Bazaar Clever Algorithms Communicating Sequential Processes (PDF) - Tony Hoare Compiler Construction (PDF) Computer Musings (lectures by Donald Knuth) Data Structures and Algorithms: Annotated Reference with Examples Database Fundamentals (PDF) Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce (PDF) The Definitive Guide to Building Code Quality Designing Interfaces by Jennifer Tidwell Digital Signal Processing For Engineers and Scientists Domain Driven Design Quickly Don't Just Roll the Dice Essentials of Metaheuristics by Sean Luke Essential Skills for Agile Development A Field Guide To Genetic Programming Flow based Programming Foundations of Computer Science - Al Aho and Jeff Ullman Foundations of Programming Getting Real Getting started with Open source development (PDF) The Great Tree List Recursion Problem Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge How Computers Work How to Design Programs How to Think Like a Computer Scientist How to Write Parallel Programs How to write Unmaintainable Code I Am a Bug An Introduction to the Theory of Computation Introduction to Functional Programming (class lectures and slides) Introduction to Information Retrieval Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It? Learn to Program Let's Build a Compiler Linkers and loaders Linked List Basics Linked List Problems Mathematical Logic - an Introduction (PDF) Matters Computational Mining of Massive Datasets NASA Manager Handbook for Software Development (PDF) NASA Software Measurement Handbook Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns Online Course Materials OO Design Operating Systems and Middleware (PDF and LaTeX) Patterns and Practices: Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community (PDF) Planning Algorithms PNG: The Definitive Guide Pointers And Memory Producing Open Source Software Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation Programming Methodology Programming Pearls Project Oberon (PDF) Seamless Object-Oriented Software Architecture Security Engineering Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs Summary of the GoF Design Patterns The Little Book of Semaphores The TCP/IP Guide Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers (PDF, code written in Python) Type Theory and Functional Programming Understanding IP Addressing: Everything you ever wanted to know (PDF) Android Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript Learning Android Autotools GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtool ASP.NET MVC NerdDinner Walkthrough Assembly Language Programming from the Ground Up (PDF) Paul Carter's Tutorial on x86 Assembly Software optimization resources by Agner Fog Bash Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide Bash Guide for Beginners by Machtelt Garrels Lhunath's Bash Guide The Command Line Crash Course (also a Powershell reference) C / C++ Beej's Guide to Network Programming Beej's Guide to C Programming The C book C++ Annotations C++ GUI Programming With Qt 3 CS106X Programming Abstractions in C++ Essential C Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt 4 (PDF) Learn C the hard way Matters Computational: Ideas, Algorithms, Source Code, by Jorg Arndt The new C standard - an annotated reference Object Oriented Programming in C (PDF) Software optimization resources by Agner Fog Thinking in C++, Second Edition Also see: The Definitive C++ Book Guide and List C# See .NET below Clojure Clojure Programming Clojure - Functional Programming for the JVM CoffeeScript Smooth CoffeeScript The Little Book on CoffeeScript ColdFusion CFML In 100 Minutes DB2 Getting started with DB2 Express-C (PDF) Getting started with IBM Data Studio for DB2 (PDF) Getting started with IBM DB2 development (PDF) Delphi / Pascal Essential Pascal Version 1 and 2 The Tomes of Delphi Django Djangobook.com Emacs GNU Emacs Manual, 16th Edition, v. 22 An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp, 3rd Edition Erlang Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good Flex Getting started with Adobe Flex (PDF) F# The F# Survival Guide F Sharp Programming in Wikibooks Real World Functional Programming (MSDN Chapters) Forth Starting Forth Thinking Forth Git Pro Git The Git Community Book Git From The Bottom Up (PDF) Go The Go Tutorial Grails Getting Start with Grails Haskell Learn You a Haskell Real World Haskell HTML / CSS Dive Into HTML5 HTML Dog Tutorials Java Java Application Development on Linux by Carl Albing and Michael Schwarz(PDF) How to Think Like a Computer Scientist The Java EE6 Tutorial (PDF) Java Thin-Client Programming Sun's Java Tutorials Thinking in Java OSGi in Practice (PDF) Category wise tutorials - J2EE Introduction to Programming Using Java - David J. Eck JavaScript Crockford's JavaScript Eloquent JavaScript Essential Javascript & jQuery Design Patterns for Beginners JavaScript Essentials jQuery Fundamentals (starts with JavaScript basics) Mozilla Developer Network's JavaScript Guide JavaScript (Node.js specific) Up and Running with Node The Node Beginner Book Mastering Node.js Mixu's Node Book LaTeX The Not So Short Introduction to LaTeX Linux Advanced Linux Programming GNU Autoconf, Automake and Libtool GTK+/Gnome Application Development The Linux Development Platform (PDF) Linux Device Drivers by Jonathan Corbet, Alessandro Rubini, and Greg Kroah-Hartman The Linux Kernel Module Programming Guide Secure Programming for Linux and Unix Lisp Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation - David S. Touretzky Common Lisp Quick Reference Let Over Lambda - 50 Years of Lisp Natural Language Processing in Lisp On Lisp Practical Common Lisp Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp - David Lamkins Sketchy LISP - Nils Holm Lua Programming In Lua (for version 5) Mathematica Mathematica® programming: an advanced introduction by Leonid Shifrin Maven Better Builds with Maven Maven by Example Maven: The Complete Reference Repository Management with Nexus Developing with Eclipse and Maven Mercurial Mercurial: The Definitive Guide HGInit - Mercurial Tutorial by Joel Spolsky Nemerle See .NET below .NET (C# / VB / Nemerle / Visual Studio) C# Essentials C# Programming - Wikibook C# Yellow Book (intro to programming) Charles Petzold's .NET Book Zero Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in C# Entity Framework Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Nemerle Programmer's Heaven C# School Book (covers C# 1.0 and 2.0) Threading in C# Visual Basic Essentials Visual Studio Tips and Tricks (VS 2003-2005 only) NoSQL CouchDB: The Definitive Guide The Little MongoDB Book The Little Redis Book Oberon Programming in Oberon (PDF) Objective-C The Objective-C Programming Language Object-Oriented Programming with Objective-C OCaml Introduction to Objective Caml (PDF) Objective Caml for Scientists (first chapter only) Unix System Programming in OCaml Developing Applications With Objective Caml Oracle Server Oracle's Guides and Manuals Oracle PL/SQL PL/SQL Language Reference PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference Steven Feuerstein's PL/SQL Obsession - Videos and Presentations Parrot / Perl 6 Using Perl 6 (work in progress) Perl Beginning Perl Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason Essential Perl Extreme Perl Higher-Order Perl The Mason Book Modern Perl 5 Perl & LWP Perl for the Web Perl Free Online EBooks (meta-list) Perl The Hard Way Practical mod_perl Web Client Programming with Perl PHP PHP Essentials Practical PHP Programming (wiki containing O'Reilly's PHP In a Nutshell) Symfony2 Zend Framework: Survive the Deep End PowerShell Mastering PowerShell Prolog Adventure in Prolog Applications of Prolog Building Expert Systems in Prolog Introduction to Prolog for Mathematicians Learn Prolog Now! Logic, Programming and Prolog (2ed) Natural Language Processing in Prolog Natural Language Processing Techniques in Prolog Prolog Programming A First Course Prolog Techniques Simply Logical Visual Prolog 7.2 for Tyros PostgreSQL Practical PostgreSQL Python Building Skills in Python Version 2.5 Byte of Python Data Structures and Algorithms in Python Dive into Python Dive into Python 3 The Django Book How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python Invent Your Own Computer Games With Python Learn Python The Hard Way Natural Language Processing with Python Python Bibliotheca Python for Fun Snake Wrangling For Kids Think Python (PDF) Thinking in Python R The R Manuals The R Language R by example Computational Statistics, Jeremy Penzer Ruby Learn Ruby the hard way MacRuby: The Definitive Guide Mr. Neighborly's Humble Little Ruby Book Programming Ruby Ruby Best Practices Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (mirror) Ruby on Rails Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails By Example Scala Exploring Lift (published earlier as "The Definitive Guide to Lift", PDF) Lift Pro Scala: Monadic Design Patterns for the Web Programming in Scala, First Edition Programming Scala Scala By Example (PDF) A Scala Tutorial for Java programmers (PDF) Xtrace Scheme Concrete Abstractions: An Introduction to Computer Science Using Scheme The Scheme Programming Language Edition 3, Edition 4 Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science Sed Sed - An Introduction and Tutorial Smalltalk Dynamic Web Development with Seaside Free Online Smalltalk Books (meta-list) Squeak By Example (Smalltalk IDE) Subversion Subversion Version Control (PDF) Version Control with Subversion SQL (implementation agnostic) Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL Use The Index, Luke!: A Guide To SQL Database Performance Learn SQL The Hard Way Teradata Teradata Books Vim A Byte of Vim Vim Recipes Vi Improved -- Vim by Steve Oualline Websphere Getting started with WebSphere (PDF) Windows Phone Programming Windows Phone 7 share edited Mar 1 '12 at 9:10 community wiki 174 revs, 115 users 34% George Stocker

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Book: Structure and Interpretation of computer programs (Table of contents) Lectures are here, smaller re-encoded versions from MIT OpenCourseWare are here. share edited Jun 1 '10 at 12:11 community wiki 6 revs, 3 users 53% Peter Mortensen

24   the lecture videos are available for this too man find them atgroups.csail.mit.edu/mac/classes/6.001/abelson-sussman-lectures –  jake  Oct 17 '08 at 11:52 5   Re-encoded ones: ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/… –  Lucas Jones Aug 2 '09 at 12:04 2   There is a Berkeley OpenCourseWare project (CS 61A, the first of the Cal 3 part lower division curriculum) using the same text with video lectures available here: webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978270 –  unmounted  Oct 15 '10 at 7:35 5   If anyone's interested in SICP in epub format: github.com/ieure/sicp –  Wesley Rice  Nov 29 '10 at 17:24 show 3 more comments

144	MIT has their open course ware for computer science. http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/index.htm share answered  Aug 7 '08 at 13:43 community wiki Stephen Pellicer

131	It's not an ebook, but every programmer should probably watch it. MIT's - Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, Video Lectures Also, Berkley have their lectures posted online share edited Sep 2 '11 at 6:24 community wiki 2 revs, 2 users 67% PintSizedCat
	1   Here's the book accompanying the SICP video lectures: mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html. –  Jules  Dec 21 '08 at 23:48 1   Stanford also has lectures of many courses online at the SEE project. –  ninjalj  Jun 26 '10 at 14:49

84	It's not a proper book, but one of Wikipedia's spinoffs is Wikibooks, which has quite a lot of books in different stages of development. share answered  Oct 12 '08 at 0:02 community wiki Mikle

71	Bruce Eckel offers several books including Thinking in Java share answered  Dec 24 '08 at 15:32 community wiki Daniel Auger

58	Bruce Eckel has free books on several topics here. Dive Into Python is a nice free Python book. Check out Thinking in Java and Thinking in C++ as well. share edited Aug 4 '12 at 1:55 community wiki 4 revs, 3 users 81% mreggen

55	Building Skills Building Skills in Python Building Skills in Programming Building Skills in Object-Oriented Design share answered  Oct 12 '08 at 1:47 community wiki S.Lott

47	Some great links for download open source books: http://www.onlinecomputerbooks.com/free-open-source-books.php http://www.freebookcentre.net/SpecialCat/Free-Open-Source-Books-Download.html share edited Sep 27 '11 at 21:58 community wiki 2 revs, 2 users 86% CyberCaronte

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Essential JavaScript And jQuery Design Patterns by Addy Osmani. Scalable and Modular Architecture for CSS by Jonathan Snook And sites for free books: Tech books for free download e-booksdirectory techtoolblog - 345 Books O´Reilly Open Books Galileo Computing (German Open Books) Microsoft Press: List of our free books List of 30 free programming ebooks Hackershelf share edited Feb 22 '12 at 19:04 community wiki 8 revs, 2 users 81% Mika

46	http://knowfree.net/ That is an amazing resource, not all of the links work, but about 95% which is still awesome share answered  Aug 7 '08 at 13:37 community wiki Tarks
	3   I don't think it is a valid link. Are they following copyrights rules? –  Zerotoinfinite  Jan 18 '11 at 8:50

42	Bruce Perens' Open Source Series, several books on different Open Source projects. share answered  Oct 11 '08 at 23:39 community wiki Adriano Varoli Piazza
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38	Collection of Free Programming and Technology Related Books This post contains the list of sites offering Programming, Information Technology and Computer books which are provided by Publishers and Authors legally and free. share answered  Jun 3 '10 at 22:06 community wiki Ray Vega

36	AddedBytes.com has a pretty useful collection of Cheat Sheets. share edited Sep 2 '11 at 6:26 community wiki 2 revs, 2 users 75% Gordon Bell

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Here is the list of free books from IBM: Database Fundamentals Getting started with Adobe Flex Getting started with DB2 Express-C Getting started with DB2 application development Getting started with IBM Data Studio for DB2 Getting started with open source development Getting started with WebSphere Application Server Community Edition Take a look at the referenced material here: http://www.db2university.com/web/resources/index.php share answered  Jan 17 '11 at 5:56 community wiki Vikas Patidar

31	Not to be ignored, some helpful material available on http://code.google.com/edu/ andhttp://www.wikibooks.com/ share answered  Jan 19 '11 at 5:07 community wiki san8055

29	This document has a very nice overview of the GoF book AKA Design Patterns. (CC licensed) share edited Sep 2 '11 at 6:28 community wiki 3 revs, 3 users 38% Peter Mortensen

26	Gnu Make Manual Gnu GDB Manual Gnu GCC Documentaion share answered  Aug 2 '09 at 9:02 community wiki Waseem

26	Basics of Compiler Design share answered  Aug 2 '09 at 14:41 community wiki Christian Joergensen

26	The Art of Assembly Language Programming share edited Aug 7 '09 at 21:12 community wiki 2 revs, 2 users 86% Maestro1024
	1   Full title is: "The Art of Assembly Language Programming". By Randall Hyde. 2003. For x86. Published by No Starch Press (San Francisco). Second edition due November 2009. –  Peter Mortensen  Aug 1 '09 at 11:04

25	Perl framework: the mason book: Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason Open source development essays: and the bazaar and cathedral book: GUI Design: User Interface Design for Programmers by joel Advanced Perl: Higher-Order Perl share edited Oct 10 '10 at 23:18 community wiki 4 revs, 2 users 98% melaos
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25	The NerdDinner tutorial is a great way to start with ASP.NET MVC. [Update] An even better tutorial is the official ASP.NET MVC Music Store Step-by-Step Tutorial. share edited Dec 2 '11 at 0:25 community wiki 2 revs Marius Schulz
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23	Programming in Emacs Lisp (Second Edition) Programming in Lua (first edition) How to Design Worlds: Imaginative Programming in DrScheme share edited Jun 20 '09 at 12:05 community wiki 2 revs Nick Dandoulakis

23	Too Many Smalltalk books to list share answered  Aug 2 '09 at 12:48 community wiki dvincelli

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Maíra Wenzel's Blog MSDN Library is now featuring 44 chapters from 13 O’Reilly books on subjects such as C# 3.0, Visual Basic 2008, ADO.NET 3.5, .NET 3.5, the ADO.NET Entity Framework, WCF Services, and ASP.NET 3.5. And here’s the list of the books that have some of their chapters featured on the library: ASP.NET: Building a Web 2.0 Portal with ASP.NET 3.5: Learn How to Build a State-of-the-Art Ajax Start Page Using ASP.NET, .NET 3.5, LINQ, Windows WF, and More Learning ASP.NET 3.5, Second Edition: Build Web Applications with ASP.NET 3.5, AJAX, LINQ, and More Programming ASP.NET 3.5, Fourth Edition Visual Studio 2008: C# 3.0 Cookbook, Third Edition: More than 250 solutions for C# 3.0 programmers C# 3.0 Design Patterns: Use the Power of C# 3.0 to Solve Real-World Problems C# 3.0 in a Nutshell, Third Edition: A Desktop Quick Reference Learning C# 3.0: Master the fundamentals of C# 3.0 Programming Visual Basic 2008: Build .NET 3.5 Applications with Microsoft's RAD Tool for Business .NET Development: ADO.NET 3.5 Cookbook, Second Edition Programming .NET 3.5: Build N-Tier Applications with WPF, AJAX, Silverlight, LINQ, WCF, and More Programming Entity Framework: Building Data Centric Apps with the ADO.NET Entity Framework Programming WCF Services, Second Edition: Building Service Oriented Applications with Windows Communication Foundation RESTful .NET: Build and Consume RESTful Web Services with .NET 3.5 share edited Sep 2 '11 at 6:30 community wiki 3 revs, 2 users 93% AMissico

1   looks like someone is desperately clutching at straws in a losing battle for market. I wondered when would MS eventually start taking these steps. –  Peter Perháč  Jul 2 '10 at 8:18 1   @Peter: Hmm, what makes you say this ? –  ram  Jul 2 '10 at 13:46 1   @Peter Perháč: I agree with "the rebooter", you comments seems out of context. –  AMissico  Jul 2 '10 at 14:39

20	EJB EJB Design Patterns Mastering Enterprise Java Beans, 3rd Edition Enterprise Java Beans Mastering Enterprise Java Beans Bitter Java The J2EE Architect's Handbook Other Java Java Testing and Design share answered  Jul 8 '10 at 23:47 community wiki xagyg

18	Have a look at theassayer.org. share answered  Oct 12 '08 at 1:09 community wiki Federico A. Ramponi

18	As posted in my thread: Ballard and Brown's Computer Vision and A Field Guide to Genetic Programming share answered  Dec 9 '08 at 5:03 community wiki Paul Morel

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OpenGL http://www.glprogramming.com/red/ http://www.glprogramming.com/blue/ http://www.scribd.com/doc/23602872/opengl-es-2-0-programming-guide-opengl http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems/gpugems_pref02.html http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems2/gpugems2_part01.html http://http.developer.nvidia.com/GPUGems3/gpugems3_pref01.html share edited Jun 21 '10 at 13:18 community wiki 2 revs slf