Ubuntu's Free! Online Programming Book Library Links page

[Omnios]

Welcome To The Programming Library!

This thread is for users so there is a centralized are to post links to rated Online and downloadable programming books that must fit the criteria of being avaiblable for free to the user. Also please write a short descriptiion and what you think the book rates pertaining to ease of learning.


Why a programming Library Thread?
I originally wrote this thread based on that I could find huge amounts of web pages in a Google search, However the amount of Google hits was huge and going through these links I found what was a lot of Junk pages, based on a programming newbie would totally confused and things where explained in a manner that you needed a computer degree to understand them. Based on this I decided to make a library in the programming forum section resulting in links that are understandable by novice users.



Here is a start

Highly rated newbie programmer books. Recomended by G4-teckTV :
How To think Like a Computer scientist series:

C++: http://greenteapress.com/thinkc++

Java: http://greenteapress.com/thinkapjava

Python: http://greenteapress.com/thinkpython

Thanks and cheers

Edited and cleaned up by : LaRoza
Thank you LaRosa
Multiple:


Books: http://www.computer-books.us/

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

Books: http://www.freetechbooks.com/

Tutorials: http://www.w3schools.com/

Tutorials: http://www.tizag.com/

Tutorials: http://en.wikiversity.org/wiki/Topic...er_programming


C++:

Book: http://greenteapress.com/thinkc++

Book: http://www.planetpdf.com/developer/a...ContentID=6634

Book: http://www.gnacademy.org/text/cc/material.html

Tutorial: http://www.cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/

Tutorial: http://www.augustcouncil.com/~tgibso...ial/index.html

Tutorial: http://clivecooper.co.uk/tutorial/index.html


Java:

Book: http://greenteapress.com/thinkapjava

Book: http://www.greenteapress.com/thinkap...hinkapjava.pdf

Book: http://www.planetpdf.com/developer/a...ContentID=6632

Tutorial: http://www.digilife.be/quickreferenc...a%20applet.pdf


Python:

Book: http://greenteapress.com/thinkpython

Books: http://www.effbot.org/zone/librarybook-index.htm

Book: http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/

Book: http://www.diveintopython.org

Books: http://infohost.nmt.edu/tcc/help/pubs/lang.html

Tutorial: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Non-Pro...ython/Contents

Documentation: http://docs.python.org/download.html

Cheatsheet: http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/pointal/python/pqrc/

pmasiar's sig: http://learnpython.pbwiki.com/HowToStart


Ruby:

Documentation/Tutorials: http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/documentation/

Books: http://www.sapphiresteel.com/

Games:

Site: http://ubuntu-gamedev.wikispaces.com
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Computer-Books.us
http://www.computer-books.us/
Large amount of programming and computer books online for download.

Assembly Language, Awk, BASIC, C, C++, COBOL, C#, Delphi, Forth, Fortran, Java, Linux, Lisp, Perl, PHP, PostScript, Python, SQL, Visual Basic.

Notes: 
There are loads of begginer and newbie
 programming books and the more we can list the better
 on the basis of there is a book for everyone. Currently
 I would also like to get links on books based things
 like objects, basic algorythms etc. And enything that
 has good syntax to learn,

Edit: New How to programming Videos:
I found a series of online video tutorials for Python and other programming languages. I feel they are very powerfull in that a lot of things are explained that are over looked in books and makes a lot of sense of stuff that is often overlooked.




http://showmedo.com/videos/python

.ython:.

NEW: Link:
Python Learning Foundation

Python Learning Foundation

python411 Learning about Python = python programming podcasts.
python411 Learning about Python "Pod-casts

This may be interesting for users with little or no python experience.

Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python/Contents

Link:Non-Programmer_Tutorial_for_Python

(the eff-bot guide to) The Standard Python Library
Python library stuff

http://www.effbot.org/zone/librarybook-index.htm




.:C,C++:.

Thinking in C++:

http://www.planetpdf.com/developer/article.asp?ContentID=6634


.:Java:.

Thinking in Java:

http://www.planetpdf.com/developer/article.asp?ContentID=6632


Download Python 2.5 Documentation
http://docs.python.org/download.html

Updated from post in this thread thanks Mickeysofine1972 for a great link
The Ubuntu Games Developer Resource Wiki
A Ubuntu online game programming My Space.
http://ubuntu-gamedev.wikispaces.com/

Please Help with feedback!
If you find one of these links useful please come back and give it a plug.
This will rate the online books in the Library And Recommended Links will be rated In the main post.

New

Python cheatsheets
Very nice looking python cheat sheets for reference.
http://www.limsi.fr/Individu/pointal/python/pqrc/

The LiveWires Python Course
Had a quick peek of this Python Course and it looks interesting as in different.
http://www.livewires.org.uk/python/


Welcome to the Learning to Program web tutor!
Downloaded the pdf and had a look, Nice diagrams showing how certain python programming works
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld/

[FyreBrand]

Thank you for those links. Here is a link to Bruce Eckel's site Mindview Inc. I think he is a pretty good author for beginning and intermediate programmers. He provideds some free books on C++, Java, and a new one for C I haven't read yet. I think the C++ books are pretty relevent and haven't become dated for me.

Not everything on his site is free (he does have to make a living), but he does provide some free electronic books.

These are currently the free books:
Thinking in C++ Vol. 1
Thinking in C++ Vol. 2
Thinking in Java Vols 1, 2, and 3
Thinking in C (beta)

Here is a link to his site: Mindview Inc.[www.mindview.net]

Just follow the book links and there are mirrors to download them in HTML or PDF format. There are also links to purchase his CD's and books on various retail sites.

[Warbo]

http://www.diveintopython.org helped me get going (I think there is actually a package of it in Debian, I am not sure about Ubuntu though.)

[Omnios]

Originally Posted by FyreBrand Thank you for those links. Here is a link to Bruce Eckel's site Mindview Inc. I think he is a pretty good author for beginning and intermediate programmers. He provideds some free books on C++, Java, and a new one for C I haven't read yet. I think the C++ books are pretty relevent and haven't become dated for me. These are currently the free books: Thinking in C++ Vol. 1 Thinking in C++ Vol. 2 Thinking in Java Vols 1, 2, and 3 Thinking in C (beta) Here is a link to his site: Mindview Inc.[www.mindview.net]

Note: There are some .PDF format of his books available from planetpdf.com: I am including the links to the C++ and Java pages available in .pdf

Thinking in C++:
http://www.planetpdf.com/developer/a...ContentID=6634

Thinking in Java:
http://www.planetpdf.com/developer/a...ContentID=6632

[me1on]

I'm pretty new to programming, so this post might be pretty useless, but a quick search on digg yielded these results):

Free Books/Tutorials:
List of 5,000 Free Programming/Computer/Internet Books
List of 345 Online Programming Books
Free Computer/Programming Books
Free C++/Java Game Programming Books
Programming from the Ground Up (PDF ebook)
Apress - Free Programming Books
Thorough C++ Tutorial for Beginners
Photoshop, Flash, Programming, and Web Tutorials
Learn Python in 10 minutes (previous programming experience needed)
Several programming tutorials for many different languages
C and C++ Programming Tutorials
Operating System Programming
(Wiki) C++ Programming Tutorial
CoderWiki (a programming wiki)
GPWiki (a game programming wiki)
SDL Tutorials

Other Resources:
Programmers' Tools (lists various programming tools)
Krugle (great search engine for programmers)
Digg/Programming (Digg's programming section)
Slashdot/Developers (Slashdot's developers section)
Stiff Asks, Great Programmers Answer (hear what the top programmers have to say)
Wikipedia's Computer Programming Category
Google (when all else fails, use google )

Hopefully that helped.

Also, might be a bad idea, but if this thread gets big it might be cool to make a del.icio.us account just for bookmarking various programming resources on this thread. That way, for example, if I wanted to look up books on Python, I could go del.icio.us/programmingresources/books+Python. Just a thought.

[Note360]

This is for Ruby Programmers:

Why's (Poingnant) Guide to Ruby (/w cartoon foxes)*

Learning Ruby

The PickAxe Book (Pragmatic Programmers Ruby Book)

* Their is no other version w/o cartoon foxes so live with it

[RoyArne]

Take a look at Practical Common Lisp by Peter Seibel. Great book on Lisp.

[Omnios]

Lifted from another post:

Originally Posted by nop0000 Assembly - The Art of Assembly, http://webster.cs.ucr.edu/ - Computer Organization and Design C - The C Programming Language CVS - Open Source Development with CVS, http://cvsbook.red-bean.com/

[Omnios]

Lifted from another post.

Originally Posted by X.Cyclop Assembly Win32Asm Art of Assembly Interrupt List Assembly Language Tutor Assembly Language Programming Programming from the Ground Up C A Tutorial on pointers and arrays in C C Programming The C Book Writing bug-free C code C - Elements of style http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Programming:C_contents http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/C++ http://www.cprogramming.com http://www.silicontao.com/ProgrammingGuide/index.htmll http://www.cyberdiem.com/vin/tutorials.html

[X.Cyclop]

Thanks Omnios!

More:

C++
C Annotations
Object First
C++ Programming HOW-TO
Programming in C++ - Rules and Recommendations
C++ Coding Standard
Debugging C and C++ code in a Unix environment
The Function Pointer Tutorials
Introduction To OOP Using C++
The Standard Template Library
Standard Template Library Programmer's Guide
How To Think Like A Computer Scientist Learning with C++
Thinking In C++ 2nd Edition - Volume I
Thinking In C++ 2nd Edition - Volume II