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NoTiG
July 21st, 2005, 08:36 PM
General:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html



Python :


http://byteofpython.info/
http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/
http://www.diveintopython.org/
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/
(mostly python, some vbscript and javascript examples)

(the eff-bot guide to) The Standard Python Library:
http://effbot.org/zone/librarybook-index.htm



Ruby :

http://rubycentral.com/book/index.html


PHP :

http://www.php.net/docs.php
http://www.hudzilla.org/phpbook/


C :

http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/


Assembly :

http://savannah.nongnu.org


LISP :

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html


Web Programming :

http://www.w3schools.com/


Medley (mixture of diff lang):

http://mindview.net/Books
http://www.techbooksforfree.com/

damonw5
July 21st, 2005, 09:04 PM
General:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html



Python :


http://byteofpython.info/

May be a lottle OT, but here goes:

PHP:

http://www.php.net/docs.php

http://www.hudzilla.org/phpbook/

SGC
July 21st, 2005, 09:05 PM
Python :


http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/thinkCSpy/

DJ_Max
July 21st, 2005, 09:31 PM
Ruby:

http://rubycentral.com/book/index.html

kostkon
July 21st, 2005, 09:54 PM
C:

http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/

LordHunter317
July 22nd, 2005, 09:56 AM
For semi-decent introductory books, Bruce Eckel has a series on several languages:
http://mindview.net/Books

There are generally better books for every language he's written about, but they're not freely available online, either.

dataw0lf
July 22nd, 2005, 10:34 AM
http://www.diveintopython.org or sudo apt-get install diveintopython

UbuWu
July 23rd, 2005, 08:07 AM
Learning to program:
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/
(mostly python, some vbscript and javascript examples)

(the eff-bot guide to) The Standard Python Library:
http://effbot.org/zone/librarybook-index.htm

Gsibbery
July 23rd, 2005, 11:00 AM
Assembly:
http://savannah.nongnu.org

LISP:
http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html

jerome bettis
July 23rd, 2005, 10:04 PM
of all the programming books i've read, this one has helped me the most: http://archive.eiffel.com/doc/oosc/

der_joachim
July 24th, 2005, 03:49 AM
For the web developers among us: http://www.w3schools.com/ .

darthsabbath
August 9th, 2005, 03:53 PM
Just found this thread... he's a useful page that's got a ton of online programming/engineering books:

http://www.techbooksforfree.com

Please note i've had trouble viewing the menu in the latest version of FireFox... if anyone has trouble doing so, here are the menu links from the site:

Linux - http://www.techbooksforfree.com/linux.shtml
Java - http://www.techbooksforfree.com/java.shtml
Microsoft - http://www.techbooksforfree.com/microsoft.shtml
C/C++ - http://www.techbooksforfree.com/ccpp.shtml
Perl/Python - http://www.techbooksforfree.com/perlpython.shtml
Science - http://www.techbooksforfree.com/science.shtml
Networking - http://www.techbooksforfree.com/networking.shtml
Security - http://www.techbooksforfree.com/security.shtml
Database - http://www.techbooksforfree.com/database.shtml
Assembly - http://www.techbooksforfree.com/assembly.shtml

fng
August 10th, 2005, 09:57 AM
Python:
- http://mindview.net/Books/TIPython (a bit old thou)

C++:
- http://mindview.net/Books/TICPP/ThinkingInCPP2e.html

Java :
- http://www.mindview.net/Books/TIJ/