Ask HN: Free Programming eBooks
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If you have a San Francisco public library card, you can get access to the entire Safari Techbooks collection online. Other libraries may have the same service. It's a huge resource and well worth the ten minute stop into a local library to sign up for a free card.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/15556326/Structure-and-Interpretat... (PDF)
http://www.neilvandyke.org/sicp-texi/ (Texinfo)
http://www.neilvandyke.org/sicp-texi/ (Texinfo)
While working on the new interface at Scribd, SICP was one of our test documents - it looks great in HTML!
http://www.scribd.com/documents/15556326/Structure-and-Inter...
http://www.scribd.com/documents/15556326/Structure-and-Inter...
This site have a lot great books like computational-intelligence-and-modern-heuristics etc
http://sciyo.com/
This topic on StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-ava...
The Smalltalk library linked from that page: http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html
O'Reilly open books: http://oreilly.com/openbook/
Some FP books (Ocaml, Scala, Haskell,...): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088594
Scheme:
"An introduction to Scheme and its implementation." ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/garbage/cs345/schintro-v14/schintro_toc.html
"The Scheme Programming Language, 4th edition." (Dyvbig) http://www.scheme.com/tspl4/
"Concrete Abstractions." http://gustavus.edu/+max/concrete-abstractions.html
Lisp:
"Common Lisp the language, 2nd edition." http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/cltl2.html
"Successful Lisp." http://www.psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/
"Common Lisp: an interactive approach". http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~shapiro/Commonlisp/
Ocaml:
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis500/cis500-f02/resources/ocaml... (draft)
Scala
"The Lift Book." http://groups.google.com/group/the-lift-book/?pli=1
Linux:
http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20090405061458383/20oftheB... and http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20100402190204972/12Moreof...
Programming Languages
"Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation". http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/200...
Other
"Communicating sequential processes." (Hoare) http://www.usingcsp.com/
"Foundations of Computer Science". (Aho and Ullman) http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs.html
The Smalltalk library linked from that page: http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html
O'Reilly open books: http://oreilly.com/openbook/
Some FP books (Ocaml, Scala, Haskell,...): http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1088594
Scheme:
"An introduction to Scheme and its implementation." ftp://ftp.cs.utexas.edu/pub/garbage/cs345/schintro-v14/schintro_toc.html
"The Scheme Programming Language, 4th edition." (Dyvbig) http://www.scheme.com/tspl4/
"Concrete Abstractions." http://gustavus.edu/+max/concrete-abstractions.html
Lisp:
"Common Lisp the language, 2nd edition." http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/cltl2.html
"Successful Lisp." http://www.psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/
"Common Lisp: an interactive approach". http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~shapiro/Commonlisp/
Ocaml:
http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis500/cis500-f02/resources/ocaml... (draft)
Scala
"The Lift Book." http://groups.google.com/group/the-lift-book/?pli=1
Linux:
http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20090405061458383/20oftheB... and http://www.linuxlinks.com/article/20100402190204972/12Moreof...
Programming Languages
"Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation". http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/200...
Other
"Communicating sequential processes." (Hoare) http://www.usingcsp.com/
"Foundations of Computer Science". (Aho and Ullman) http://infolab.stanford.edu/~ullman/focs.html
Here is one I recently discoverd:
http://inventwithpython.com/
Teaches you python by creating games.
http://inventwithpython.com/
Teaches you python by creating games.
Just found this one about mercurial:
http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/
http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/
Bruce Eckel's books:
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Index.php
http://www.mindviewinc.com/Index.php
Rules: - free ebooks - no amazon links, no referals - preferably html, epub, pdf, latex - all programming languages are important - patterns, methodologies, design, etc