List of freely available programming books

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)


• Computer Systems: A Programmer's Perspective


• 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

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


• 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

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)

JavaScript

• Crockford's JavaScript


• Eloquent JavaScript


• Essential Javascript & jQuery Design Patterns for Beginners


• JavaScript Essentials


• JavaScript: The Good Parts


• 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

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

• ANSI Common 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

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


• Unix System Programming in OCaml

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