Free Programming Ebooks

http://citizen428.net/blog/2010/08/12/30-free-programming-ebooks/

by krat0sprakhar • 15 years ago

301 24 15 years ago

Thanks, Diving into Python and Mastering Node are two good ones for me.

telemachos2• 15 years ago

Mastering Node doesn't seem to have been updated in some time, and the author is now co-writing a book for Manning Press.[1] (It's available for pre-release as a pdf there.) He may still release it on the Mastering Node site later, but for now that site seems quiet.

[1] http://www.manning.com/cantelon/

kafkaesque3• 15 years ago

Sorry, I don't mean to get off-topic, but I want to start learning Python, but I'm on a Windows machine. Should I work on Linux instead? Because I fins most of the help offered is Linux-based. Thank you! (:

muyuu• 15 years ago

AFAICS Visual LISP Developer’s Bible is not free. US$8 in Amazon, couldn't found any free download except that of the sample chapter and exercises.

aiscott• 15 years ago

It didn't appear that Let over Lambda was free either, just some select chapters at the bottom of the page.

If you click on "Table of Contents" (http://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/toc) the author gives access to the first 6 chapters with only 2 non published online. Which I think is great, I've been considering buying this book for a while but was afraid it would be too far over my head. Now I get to find out first.

kruhft2• 15 years ago

Let Over Lambda is amazing and I highly recomend it for those that would like to know just what you can do with Lisp macros. It builds on the work in On Lisp, but you can get by without reading it first.

chollida1• 15 years ago

LOL is a great book.

I've been through it a few times and I'll probably read it again.

If you have any questions I'll try to answer them for you.

macco• 15 years ago

I hate this. Now I have even more books on my reading list. Damn it.

telemachos2• 15 years ago

Two others for Scheme:

The Scheme Programming Language, 4th Ed. by R. Kent Dybvig[1]

Simply Scheme: Introducing Computer Science by Brian Harvey and Matthew Wright, 2nd Ed.[2]

[1] http://www.scheme.com/tspl4/

[2] http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~bh/ss-toc2.html

drcube• 15 years ago

Learn Python the Hard Way is available for free on the web, but you have to pay (a nominal fee) for the pdf or epub versions. So I'm not sure it counts as a "free ebook".

brewerja• 15 years ago

You can always pull from the gitorious repository and build it yourself.

carlsednaoui• 15 years ago

Another great option for ruby:

http://ruby.bastardsbook.com/toc/

tehC• 15 years ago

Here's a list that i think was on HN a while back.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-ava...

harichinnan• 15 years ago

Any suggestions for a book on Discrete Mathematics with Software.?

kruhft2• 15 years ago

The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming is a good place to start.

ifearthenight• 15 years ago

Thanks, ruby ones should come in handy.

mrgoldenbrown• 15 years ago

Learn you some Erlang is a web site, not an ebook, and apparently the author can't help us get it in PDF or kindle form for legal reasons. (http://learnyousomeerlang.com/faq) Yet he/she does hint that there is a kindle version out there. Here is what looks like the most likely candidate to me - I will try it out on the kindle later this afternoon. (https://github.com/igstan/learn-you-some-erlang-kindle#readm...)

mekoka• 15 years ago

Another memorable list http://programming-motherfucker.com/become.html

sasha-dv• 15 years ago

Thanks mekoka for this list.

The best free programming book, and one of the best books in general, I've ever read was Programming from the Ground Up. It's not on the citizen428's list, but the mofo's list has it.

If you haven't read it I highly recommend you do. Here's the link: http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pgubook/

Hexx• 15 years ago

How can you have a Ruby section and not mention "Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby"!

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