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Ask HN: Does anyone have a great public domain list of programming books?

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Anyone build an awesome collection of programming books? Are you willing to make it public domain, if you haven't already?

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This site is great and frequently updates the content of all the books to be "in date".

https://books.goalkicker.com/

I think people are missing the poster's point.

he or she might be asking for the ultimate list in open source programming books.

Other than searching for the universities that have set up programs to develop open source programming books and obtain their own maintained lists; I know no other way to complete the task.

For example, there is a group of Canadian Universities that has an overall program to develop open source textbooks that happens to include computer science.

Not too many programming books written pre 1927.

I understand that the poster is asking for a [public domain list] of programming books, not a list of [public domain programming books].

I mean, there are even less internet lists written before 1927.

One can explicitely assign their work into public domain (in some jurisdictions). And taxpayer funded stuff in USA is usually mandated to be public domain too (with plenty of caveats, ofc).

I heard of one from Leonardo da Vinci. Couldn't find the link, though.

Touché.

So PD software never was?

Lists are generally speaking not copyrightable, which is to say in the public domain.

I take it this is a joke. Care to explain?

"All works first published or released in the United States before January 1, 1927, have lost their copyright protection, effective January 1, 2022.“ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_in_the_United_St...

not sure if it is what you are asking, but https://teachyourselfcs.com/

Links to amazon purchases don't seem particularly `public domain`

This looks great! Thanks

Smalltalk books are available here,

http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html

Of things not listed.

This site could help https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/subjects/programming-lang...

https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books

However, the list is not public domain - the license says "This work, "free-programming-books", is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." Contact the list owner and see what they say about your intended use.

Some of Allen Downey's books are free.

Here's Think Python (How to Think Like a Computer Scientist):

https://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.pdf

Not public domain,m but free for download. Usually subsidized by companies https://freecomputerbooks.com/

Links to Free Computer, Mathematics, Technical Books all over the World

Do you mean literally public domain or books with permissive licenses in general?

Stepanov’s “Elements of Programming” is free, though I don’t think in the public domain: http://elementsofprogramming.com/

Awesome Awesomeness [1] https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness [1]

TAOCP.

More often referred to simply as "Knuth".

Thanks all! This one looks great: https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books

Trying to recruit them to #TeamPublicDomain

Oh we're team public domain. But this repo is only an index and we don't control the upstream licensing. Check out gitenberg or unglue.it and reach out to @gluejar if you want to talk about free ebook metadata.

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