List of freely available programming books

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147 points·RBerenguel··12 comments

I don't want to bother with an account there, can someone post these for me?

http://www.htdp.org/ http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/ http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rja14/book.html -> First edition free

Stack supports OpenID.

May as well get an account too anyway. Stack is the new hotness.

And unregistered cookie-based accounts.

I'd like to have all of them in one site, in html format. But it is time consuming.

If 80 of us get together and each one post a book then we can do it in a couple of days.

I love that idea. I'll help.

Hmm, we need more volunteers unless we want to split at 40 books each.

Or get donations so we can commit time to do it all.

Or we can automate it :)

I'll jump on board. I've got working minimalistic HTML for the first 3 books so far (PDFs for the first two), and am thinking a git project would make this simpler. I'm slightly hesitant to shove it to github though, as I haven't read all the legal notices, and it'd be most useful to include the author's descriptions, and we technically don't have permission to do so in at least some of the cases (currently).

Think I should go ahead and push to github?

It's somehow the same list of books over and over again. This reddit is probably better suited for a collaborative approach: http://www.reddit.com/r/csbooks/

Oh very nice... didn't know of that one.

Have you considered making a thread of it here? It's a nice list.

Ironically, IIRC I found that list through an earlier post on hn. Such a thread should already exist.

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