Let me start with MindView Inc – Bruce wrote, may be, the best books you can find on Java and C++ and they are free on the web.
Meta-List
- How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Computing and Programming
- 25 Free Computer Science Ebooks
- Free Tech Books
- Wikibooks: Programming
- Cheat Sheets (Free)
- CodePlex List of Free E-Books
- Book Training – On Video!
- Sofware Program Managers Network – Free EBooks
- EBook Share @ linbai.info
- FreeBooksClub.Net
- Theassayer.org
- O’Reilly’s Open Books Project
- TechBooksForFree.com
Language Agnostic:
- Foundations of Programming by Karl Seguin
- Computer Musings (Lectures by Donald Knuth)
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar (Introduction to Open Source Software)
- Patterns and Practices: Application Architecture Guide 2.0
- Security Engineering
- Digital Signal Processing For Engineers and Scientists
- Getting Real (Courtesy 37 Signals)
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Domain Driven Design Quickly
- OO Design
- Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review
- NASA Software Measurement Handbook
- NASA Manager Handbook for Software Development
- Introduction to Functional Programming – Class Lectures and Slides
- How to Design Programs – MIT Press
- Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge – IEEE Computer Society Press
- Online Course Materials – MIT
- Data Structures and Algorithms
- Essential Skills for Agile Development
- Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation
- Learn to Program
- Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community
- How to write Unmaintainable Code
- The Art of Unix Programming
- The Definitive Guide to Building Code Quality
- How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
- Planning Algorithms
- 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
- Domain Driven Design Quickly
- Let’s Build a Compiler
- Producing Open Source Software
- How to Write Parallel Programs
- Don’t Just Roll the Dice
- 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
- How Computers Work
- Introduction to Information Retrieval – Cambridge University Press. 2008.
Android:
Bash
C/C++
- The new C standard – an annotated reference
- The C book
- Thinking in C++, Second Edition
- C++ Annotations
- Software optimization resources by Agner Fog
- Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt 4 (Open Publication License) (PDF)
Django
Git
HTML
Java
- Sun’s Java Tutorials
- Thinking in Java
- How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
- Java Thin-Client Programming
- OSGi in Practice (CreativeCommons Attribution Non-commercial Share Alike License)
JavaScript
- Eloquent JavaScript
- Crockford’s JavaScript
- jQuery Fundamentals (starts with JavaScript basics)
Linux
Maven
Mercurial
NoSQL
Objective-C
Perl
- Higher-Order Perl
- Perl The Hard Way
- Extreme Perl
- Perl Free Online EBooks Meta-List
- The Mason Book
- Practical mod_perl
- Beginning Perl
- Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason (Open Publication License)
- Perl & LWP
- Perl for the Web
- Web Client Programming with Perl
- Modern Perl 5
PHP
- Practical PHP Programming (Wiki that contains O’Reilly’s PHP In a Nutshell)
- Zend Framework: Survive the Deep End
PostgreSQL
Python
- Dive Into Python
- Dive Into Python 3
- Byte of Python
- Building Skills in Python Version 2.5
- Python Free Online Ebooks Meta-List
- Python Bibliotheca
- Think Python
- Data Structures and Algorithms in Python
- How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python
- Python for Fun
- Invent Your Own Computer Games With Python
- Learn Python The Hard Way
- Thinking in Python
- The Django Book
- Snake Wrangling For Kids
- Natural Language Processing with Python (nltk-book)
Ruby
- Programming Ruby
- Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (Mirror via Scribd)
- Mr. Neighborly’s Humble Little Ruby Book
- Ruby Best Practices
- MacRuby: The Definitive Guide
- Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails By Example
Scala
- A Scala Tutorial for Java programmers
- Scala By Example
- Programming Scala
- Xtrace (Github)
- List (Github)
- Pro Scala: Monadic Design Patterns for the Web
- Exploring Lift (published earlier as “The Definitive Guide to Lift”, pdf)
Subversion
- Subversion Version Control: Using the Subversion Version Control System in Development Projects
- Version Control with Subversion
SQL (Implementation agnostic)
- Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL,Richard T. Snodgrass
- Use The Index, Luke! – A guide to SQL database performance for developers
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