This book can serve either as a textbook to an introductory course on computer hardware or as the basic text for the aspiring geek who wants to learn about digital design.
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Here’s a book on artificial intelligence that the author made available online in 2002. He recently went through and updated each of the 40+ chapters with links to wikipedia.
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A well-organized PDF book on C# from Programmers Heaven.
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Five-star offering covering all things automotive, with some Spanish content.
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Starting out with simple hand-drawn black and white pictures and a lean, straightforward writing style, the text moves from the basics of electrical machines to memory, processors, instructions, and more.
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Prof. Krishnamurthi had offers to publish this book in a traditional print, but chose not to because he felt it was better to distribute it freely on the web. The publisher’s loss is your gain, because this book is just about as perfect as a PDF can be.
This book offers clear writing, detailed examples, and a professional layout. It’s been reviewed by dozens of experts and collaborators and is continually updated. And miracle of miracles, the book is a properly designed PDF. It’s a small download. The text is centered on the page. The table of contents and index are hyperlinked, there’s a list of working bookmarks to let you jump around the text, and even references inside the text are linked to each other. If you’re an author looking for tips on how to design a PDF, consider using this book as a template. The only improvements for on-screen readability would be to have a larger font and page sizes designed to fit on the screen without scrolling. Otherwise, it’s ideal.
From the preface:
This book is the fruit of a vision for teaching programming languages by integrating the “two cultures” that have evolved in its pedagogy. One culture is based on interpreters, while the other emphasizes a survey of languages. Each approach has significant advantages but also huge drawbacks. The interpreter method writes programs to learn concepts, and has its heart the fundamental belief that by teaching the computer to execute a concept we more thoroughly learn it ourselves.
While this reasoning is internally consistent, it fails to recognize that understanding definitions does not imply we understand consequences of those definitions. For instance, the difference between strict and lazy evaluation, or between static and dynamic scope, is only a few lines of interpreter code, but the consequences of these choices is enormous. The survey of languages school is better suited to understand these consequences.
This course therefore melds these two approaches. Concretely, students program with a new set of features first, then try to distill those principles into an actual interpreter. This approach, of beginning with a bottom-up, example-driven presentation followed by a top-down synthesis should make the material accessible while avoiding the perils of any one school of thought.
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Chapter-by-chapter PDFs of a well-reviewed print book on Security Engineering.
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A site that offers similar content to textbook revolution, but in a more condensed format and with more links to books in the humanities.
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An introduction and foundations for Standard C++ Containers(STL) and gives a solid background in the fundamentals of C++. The author takes you step by step through the features of the language using small, clear and direct examples. Requires the eTextbookViewer (free).
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Thinking in Java is a book suitable as an introduction to the Java programming Language for all levels of ability, giving readers a solid grasp of the fundamentals so that they can move on to more complex topics. The third edition was written to bring the book up to date with the Java JDK 1.4 release of the language. Requires the free eTextbookViewer.
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A short book that aims to answer the question “how can we build smarter business processes which give our organizations competitive advantage? How can we build the intelligent business?” It’s written both for tech-savvy businesspeople and for business-savvy database administrators.
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The first edition of a well-received print book from the prolific Pragmatic Programmers press.
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Software Tutorials Internet Library has free tutorials at beginning, intermediate and advanced levels on many popular software products. Also has free software downloads, links to hardware and software sites, and help using computers in the classroom.
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A high school primer on IT from the government of Kerala, India, with a strong emphasis on open source software.
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This book is written for computer-literate folk who want to use Subversion to manage their data.
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The free online edition of one of Amazon’s bestselling DSP textbooks.
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A free online edition of a print book from O’Reilly.
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A very accessible introduction to computer programming.
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Textbook Revolution will be collaborating with freetechbooks.com to bring you even more free books! Since 2002, freetechbooks.com has catalogued free, legal computer and technical books from around the web, much like TBR does for college textbooks. This collaboration will allow each of the two sites to focus on their specialties. Reciprocal links will direct site visitors to the appropriate sections of the other sites, and computer books submitted to TBR will be directed to freetechbooks.com for inclusion on that list. Eventually, we hope to move all computer/tech content at TBR over to FTB. So don’t wait—go check out freetechbooks.com!
A very professionally done analysis of the International Standard for the C language, -3.1.
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An introductory programming textbook.
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These are electronic books in HTML on C++ and Java, along with the source code.
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This book is meant for software developers and managers who are considering starting an open source project, or who have started one and are wondering what to do now.
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An older but very lengthy introductory tutorial to electronics created by Alex Pounds.
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The bible of the Free Software movement
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This is essentially a manual to programming with Postscript, a language designed to allow total control over mathematical illustrations.
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Lots of high quality Linux books of all sizes and stripes
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A good sized collection of LISP books and other LISP links.
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An extensive library of books, papers, articles, and findings on a huge variety of topics.
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Mirrors of public domain and CC-licensed work from around the web.
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An excellent introductory series of free books on the subject of electricity and electronics.
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Another big collection of computer books.
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This book is intended to introduce church and non-profit leaders, as well as Information Technology consultants who work with such organizations to the idea of using the GNU/Linux operating system, as well as free and open source software solutions in general within religious and non-profit organizations.
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An enormous list of programming textbooks.
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This online-only “14-Lesson Introduction to Using Computers and the Internet for Students of English as a Second Language” is exactly what it says it is.
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A page full of top-quality free computer books from O’Reilly, the most respected name in their niche.
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A site that compiles IT e-books, with lots of ads.
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Ebooks are just one of the resources at ITQuestionBank.com, which also has thousands of links in just about every IT category.
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Free books on a variety of programming topics.
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Online-only book for beginners struggling with Microsoft’s Access database program.
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This Handbook will serve as a valuable reference for the novice as well as for the expert who needs a wider scope of coverage within the area of cryptography.
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A Python book for experienced programmers.
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The eCourses.ou.edu web portal was designed to assist both students in learning and instructors in teaching basic engineering courses.
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Video101 is an online textbook for film and video production students.
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Not a textbook, think of this email list and accompanying archives as an ongoing course in computers that will help everyone from novice to expert level.
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Computer course for beginners in this well-done online only textbook, also available in spanish.
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In this book the use of “program’’ is focused on the creation, execution, and study of programs written in a dialect of Lisp for execution on a digital computer.
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Books on science and mathematics in Braille.
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An excellent resource cataloguing free computer/tech books.
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A free, on-line textbook on introductory programming, which uses Java as the language of instruction.
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Web-only Java Textbook from the HTML Goodies site, which also has many resources for general website maintenance.
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his book is about the marriage of the born and the made…our technological future is headed toward a neo-biological civilization.
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JEDI is a collaborative project that aims to make high-quality, industry-endorsed IT and Computer Science course material available for free to unversities and colleges in the Philippines.
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iLumina is a digital library of sharable undergraduate teaching materials for chemistry, biology, physics, mathematics, and computer science.
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