We all learn many things from reading the conventional books. But now the trend has changed, and with electronic media so powerful we have Ebooks that can be read on computers or mobile devices.
Today in BOS21 — no templates, no BS we are presenting very useful and recommended list of programming Ebooks with open source licenses, like Creative Commons, GPL, etc. The books can be about a particular programming language or about computers in general.
I Hope you guys will share this useful collection with your near and dear ones. Also let me know if you have any other ebook that’s free and can be listed here in the collection.
Bash
- Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide (An in-depth exploration of the art of shell scripting)
C
- The C book
- The new C standard – an annotated reference
C++
- Thinking in C++
- C++ Annotations
- How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
- Software optimization resources by Agner Fog
C#
- .NET Book Zero: What the C or C++ Programmer Needs to Know About C# and the .NET Framework
- Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in C#
- Threading in C#
Common Lisp
- Practical Common Lisp
- On Lisp
Haskell
- Real world Haskell
- Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
Java
- Thinking in Java
- How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
- Java Thin-Client Programming
JavaScript
- Eloquent JavaScript
Lua
- Programming In Lua (for v5 but still largely relevant)
Objective-C
- The Objective-C Programming Language
Perl
- Extreme Perl (license not specified – home page is saying “freely available”)
- The Mason Book (Open Publication License)
- Practical mod_perl (CreativeCommons Attribution Share-Alike License)
- Higher-Order Perl
- Learning Perl the Hard Way
PHP
- Practical PHP Programming
- Zend Framework: Survive the Deep End
PowerShell
- Mastering PowerShell
Prolog
- Building Expert Systems in Prolog
- Adventure in Prolog
- Prolog Programming A First Course
- Logic, Programming and Prolog (2ed)
- Introduction to Prolog for Mathematicians
- Learn Prolog Now!
- Natural Language Processing Techniques in Prolog
Python
- Dive Into Python
- Dive Into Python 3
- How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
- A Byte of Python
- Python for Fun
- Invent Your Own Computer Games With Python
Ruby
- Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
- Programming Ruby – The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide
- Mr. Neighborly’s Humble Little Ruby Book
SQL
- Practical PostgreSQL
x86 assembly
- Paul Carter’s tutorial
- Software optimization resources by Agner Fog
Algorithms and Data Structures
- Algorithms
- Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in Java
- Planning Algorithms
Frameworks/Projects
- The Django Book
- The Pylons Book
- Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt 4 (Open Publication License)
- Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails By Example
- The Definitive Guide to symfony
Version control
- The SVN Book
- Mercurial: The Definitive Guide
- Pro Git
Release Tools
- Maven by Example
Unix / Linux
- The Art of Unix Programming
- Linux Device Drivers, Third Edition
Others
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License.)
- The Little Book of Semaphores
- Mathematical Logic – an Introduction
- An Introduction to the Theory of Computation
- Developers Developers Developers Developers
- Linkers and loaders
- Beej’s Guide to Network Programming
- Maven: The Definitive Guide
- Domain Driven Design Quickly – based on Eric Evans’s book.
- Let’s Build a Compiler, by Jack Crenshaw
Source : Stackoverflow and Commentators
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Although Practical Common Lisp does not have an Open Source license, it is freely available, even with book sources. I think it deserves to appear here!
But this is truly a great list, thanks for sharing it with everybody.
Ruben
That’s what happens when you look quickly for Lisp and not for Common Lisp. Sorry for my previous comment!
Though both _Practical Common Lisp_ and _On Lisp_ are available freely on the web, neither have “open source” licenses.
That makes me question the rest of the books listed here. :/
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Scheme (PLT’s now calling theirs “Racket”) – How To Design Programs http://www.htdp.org
Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/t-y-scheme/t-y-scheme.html
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The Objective-C book from Apple linked above is not under an open source license.
C++ In Action
My little apport is “A Computer Science Tapestry” by Owen L. Astrachan, a book about programming in C++ and licensed CC-BY-SA: http://www.cs.duke.edu/csed/tapestry/
Check out the Building Skills books by Steven Lott. Three excellent free books for learning Python.
http://homepage.mac.com/s_lott/books/index.html
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Interesting how this list is exactly like one posted on stackoverflow almost a year ago http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-available-programming-books.
Just because it’s easy for you to rip of content from other sources doesn’t mean you should do it. Link back to the source.
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Good JavaScript/jQuery ebook:
http://www.rebeccamurphey.com/jqfundamentals/
You forgot the incredibly fascinating and free introduction to FORTH programming:
http://home.iae.nl/users/mhx/sf.html
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You forgot the web2py book.
http://web2py.com/book
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Common Lisp, The Language, 2nd ed.,
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/Groups/AI/html/cltl/cltl2.html
Successful Lisp, http://psg.com/~dlamkins/sl/
Programming from the Ground Up, http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/pgubook/
Only the last of these is under an open licence, but all are available online
in full text.
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If anyone is interested in picking up smalltalk, it might be worth checking out Squeak by Example (http://squeakbyexample.org/). If you or your boss is big on the Object Oriented Programming paradigm, Smalltalk is one of the most object-focused languages I’ve ever come across. Squeak by Example is a fantastic way of learning to use it.
perl5
http://github.com/chromatic/modern_perl_book
perl6
http://github.com/perl6/book
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Very good stuff.
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This is really great!!! it should help me well
It seems my comment have been removed so… here it is again
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There is great open-source books about C++ with Qt programming :
- An Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt 4 : http://cartan.cas.suffolk.edu/oopdocbook/opensource/ (under OPL license.)
-C++ GUI Programming with Qt 4 (1st edition / OPL license) : http://www.qtrac.eu/C++-GUI-Programming-with-Qt-4-1st-ed.zip
The second edition is fully available freely online too, but not on an open source licence I think : http://www.informit.com/store/product.aspx?isbn=0132354160
(Oh, in fact, my first post was just in an “awaiting moderation” state, my mistake ! ;o)
My first post is better, shorter and I don’t mention the “An Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt 4″ already available on your listing.
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300.000 ebooks, 500 categories.
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Thanks for the list, it’s always nice to get a free ebook
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