Free Programming e-books

phyzmatix

I haven't had time to look at this in any detail as the list is quite extensive.

The books cover all major programming languages: Ada, Assembly, Basic, C, C#, C++, CGI, JavaScript, Perl, Delphi, Pascal, Haskell, Java, Lisp, PHP, Prolog, Python, Ruby, as well as some other languages, game programming, and software engineering.

Here we go!

Vals509

quite an interesting set of books. That is an excellent resource for me. Thanks.

ucm

Do their ebooks work on kindle? :)

bogarts21

What programming language would you recommend for physics students?

The legend

wow! huge collection!

ben.tien

WOW! Thank you so much!

foutoc

Fortran. It is an easy language to learn and relatively simple to implement a logical reasoning.

Thanks for the link

kramer733

What programming language would you recomend for a math student who has no programming language whatsoever ???

Brown Arrow

im currently doing a specialist in physic and its application. it is part of my program requirement that i take python.

i think its useful for a phyisc student//

Lancelot59

This seems almost too good to be true! Is there an easier way to download them than saving the HTML?

bcrowell

Brown Arrow's suggestion of python is a good one. Another good choice is ruby. In a way it doesn't matter too much what you use for your first programming language, as along as it's nonproprietary (i.e., avoid things like VB.NET). Picking up the syntax of a language is no big deal. The big deal is learning the language-independent concepts and skills like debugging, data structures, modularization, ...The only reason I would not second foutoc's suggestion of fortran is that fortran is a very old language that's saddled with a lot of historically unfortunate choices.

Angry Citizen

Can one learn C as a programming language with no background in programming (and is it one of the harder choices)? I'm looking for something to do over the summer, and beefing up my programming skills is high on the list.

Lancelot59

I think C is one of the better choices. It's simple, and used in a ton of places. C++ also works, that's the first proper programming language I learned. There's tons of resources available. If you send me a PM I can give you links to the ones I have bookmarked.

bcrowell

C is not hard at all, and can be an excellent first language. I'd suggest not learning C++ as first language, because it's a gigantic hodgepodge designed by a committee.

Lancelot59

A horrible committee.

Angry Citizen

Thanks folks.

raymo39

have you checked en.wikibooks.org ??