EbookFoundation/free-programming-books

Books 8 days ago 250.4k

📚 Freely available programming books

BY PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE

Originally, this list included a section called "Language Agnostic" for books about programming subjects not restricted to a specific programming language. That section got so big, we decided to split it into its own file, the BY SUBJECT file.

APL

A Practical Introduction to APL1 & APL2 - Graeme Donald Robertson (PDF)
A Practical Introduction to APL3 & APL4 - Graeme Donald Robertson (PDF)
APL2 at a glance - James A. Brown, Sandra Pakin, Raymond P. Polivka - 1988 (PDF) (:card_file_box: archived)
Introduction to College Mathematics with A Programming Language (1978) - E. J. LeCuyer (PDF)
Learning APL - Stefan Kruger (HTML,PDF,IPYNB)
Mastering Dyalog APL (PDF) (HTML,IPYNB in process)
Reinforcement Learning From The Ground Up - Romilly Cocking (PDF,HTML,IPYNB) ( in process)

App Inventor

Absolute App Inventor 2 - Hossein Amerkashi
App Inventor 2 - David Wolber, Hal Abelson, Ellen Spertus, Liz Looney

Arduino

Arduino Programming Notebook - Brian Evans (PDF) (:card_file_box: archived at unglue.it)
Arduino Tips, Tricks, and Techniques - lady ada (PDF)
Getting started with Arduino – A Beginner’s Guide - Brad Kendall (PDF)
Getting Started with Arduino products - Official Arduino Documentation ( in process)
Introduction to Arduino
Introduction to Arduino : A piece of cake! - Alan G. Smith
Open softwear - Fashionable prototyping and wearable computing using the Arduino - Tony Olsson, David Gaetano, Jonas Odhner, Samson Wiklund (PDF)

ASP.NET

Architecting Modern Web Applications with ASP.NET Core and Microsoft Azure (2020) - Steve "ardalis" Smith (PDF) ( in process)
ASP.NET MVC Music Store
ASP.NET WebHooks Succinctly - Gaurav Arora
ASP.NET with C# (2008) - Vijay Mukhi, Sonal Mukhi, Neha Kotecha
Diving into ASP.NET WebAPI (2016)stars6 - Akhil Mittal (PDF)
Intro to ASPNET MVC 4 with Visual Studio 2011 Beta (2012) - Rick Anderson, Scott Hanselman (PDF)
Introducing ASP.NET Web Pages 2 (2012) - Mike Pope (PDF)

ASP.NET Core

ASP.NET Core 3.1 Succinctly - Simone Chiaretta, Ugo Lattanzi
ASP.NET Core Documentation - Microsoft Docs
The Little ASP.NET Core Book (2018) - Nate Barbettini (PDF)

Blazor

Blazor: A Beginner's Guide - Ed Charbeneau (PDF) (email address requested, not required)
Blazor for ASP.NET Web Forms Developers - Daniel Roth, Jeff Fritz, Taylor Southwick (PDF)

Assembly Language

A fundamental introduction to x86 assembly prorgamming - Project Nayuki (HTML)
ARM Assembly Language Programming - Peter Knaggs (PDF) ( in process)
Assemblers And Loaders (1993) - David Salomon (PDF)
Assembly Language Succinctly - Christopher Rose, Syncfusion Inc. (HTML, PDF, EPUB, Kindle)
PC Assembly Language - P. A. Carter
Programming from the Ground Up - Jonathan Bartlett (PDF)
Ralf Brown's Interrupt List
Run Down On x86 Intel Assembly Course stars16 - Ret2LC
Software optimization resources - A. Fog
The Art of Assembly Language (2003) - Randall Hyde (PDF)
The Grain Docs
WebAssembly friendly programming with C/C++ - Ending, Chai Shushan, Yushih (HTML, examples)
Wizard Code, A View on Low-Level Programming - Tuomo Tuomo Venäläinen (PDF)
x86-64 Assembly Language Programming with Ubuntu - Ed Jorgensen (PDF)
x86 Assembly - Wikibooks
x86 Disassembly - Wikibooks
Zen of Assembly Language: Volume I, Knowledge (1990) - Michael Abrash

Non-X86

Easy 6502 - Nick Morgan
Machine Code for Beginners [Z80 and 6502 CPUs] - Lisa Watts, Mike Wharton (PDF) (scroll to bottom and click on book cover)
Machine Language for Beginners - Richard Mansfield [6502 CPU]
Programmed Introduction to MIPS Assembly Language
The Second Book of Machine Language

AutoHotkey

AutoIt

AutoIt Docs - Jonathan Bennett (HTML)

Autotools

Awk

An Awk Primer - Wikibooks
Awk - Bruce Barnett
Gawk: Effective AWK Programming - Arnold D. Robbins (HTML, PDF)
GNU awk - Sundeep Agarwal

Bash

Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide - M. Cooper (HTML)
Bash Guide for Beginners (2008) - M. Garrels (HTML)
Bash Notes for Professionals - Compiled from StackOverflow documentation (PDF)
BASH Programming (2000) - Mike G. (HTML)
Bash Reference Manual (HTML)
Bash tutorial - Anthony Scemama (PDF)
BashGuide - Maarten Billemont (HTML) (PDF)
Conquer the Command Line - Richard Smedley (PDF)
Conquering the Command Line - Mark Bates (HTML)
Getting Started with BASH (HTML)
GNU Bash manual (PDF)
Google Shell Style Guide - Paul Armstrong (HTML)
Introduction to Bash Scripting stars2.1k - Bobby Iliev (Markdown, PDF)
Introduction to the Command Line - Launch School (HTML)
Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial - A Beginner's Handbook (2002) - Vivek G. Gite (HTML)
Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial (LSST) v2.0 - Vivek Gite (HTML)
Slackbook (2005) - Alan Hicks, Chris Lumens, David Cantrell, Logan Johnson (HTML, DocBook, Postscript, PDF)
The Bash Academy - Maarten Billemont (HTML)
The Linux Command Line - William E. Shotts Jr. (PDF)
Writing Shell Scripts - William E. Shotts Jr. (HTML)

Basic

10 PRINT CHR$(205.5+RND(1)); : GOTO 10 - Nick Montfort, Patsy Baudoin, John Bell, Ian Bogost, Jeremy Douglass, Mark C. Marino, Michael Mateas, Casey Reas, Mark Sample, Noah Vawter
A beginner's guide to Gambas - John W. Rittinghouse (PDF)
Pick/Basic: A Programmer's Guide - Jonathan E. Sisk