EbookFoundation/free-programming-books on Hacker News

Evidence to the contrary (anecdotal, admittedly): - https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/is... -- "The most recent freely available draft of C17/C18 used to be c17_updated_proposed_fdis.pdf, but it's no longer…

comment by Mofpofjis · 2025-05-24 · in Don't Use ISO/IEC 14977:1996 Extended Backus-Naur Form (EBNF) (2023)

Here is the main page: https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books

comment by peter_d_sherman · 2023-07-24 · in Free-Programming-Books on GitHub – Free Programming Books

…really dumb, for example: https://github.com/trekhleb/javascript-algorithms/pull/875/f... [1] E.g.: https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/pu...

comment by netsharc · 2023-07-18 · in A Grub theme in the style of Minecraft

https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books However, the list is not public domain - the license says "This work, "free-programming-books", is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License."…

comment by bikenaga · 2022-09-10 · in Ask HN: Does anyone have a great public domain list of programming books?

Thanks all! This one looks great: https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books Trying to recruit them to #TeamPublicDomain

comment by breck · 2022-09-10 · in Ask HN: Does anyone have a great public domain list of programming books?

…(given hard to find, since the bot went wild), for more context and comments by the bot author: https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/pu... My personal experience with most of these bots is, most of them are promoting…

comment by WhatsName · 2022-04-01 · in Switch to Gender Neutral Terms

Did you look at the actual commit ? https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/pu...

comment by golem14 · 2022-04-01 · in Switch to Gender Neutral Terms

List of Free Learning Resources In Many Languages: https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books

comment by asicsp · 2022-02-16 · in Free public domain ebooks in PDf, ePub, mobi formats

Very nice! I would suggest to add them to https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books as well. You will drive an incredible amount of traffic to your website this way.

comment by stephen82 · 2021-02-14 · in I am releasing all my recent eBooks for FREE

https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/bl...

comment by chovybizzass · 2021-01-25 · in Ask HN: Is there an aggregator for new software engineering books?

The best list: https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/bl...

comment by brogrammer2018 · 2020-12-30 · in Computer Science textbooks that are freely available online

Not sure if you've seen this, https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/bl... Edit, There's also, https://www.reddit.com/r/csbooks/

comment by rovr138 · 2020-11-04 · in Ask HN: DRM Free Technical Books

You might be more familiar with another project the Free Ebook Foundation maintains: https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/ Which is one of the top-10 repos on github by number of stars.

comment by sethish · 2020-08-02 · in GITenberg is an open source community for publishing ebooks in the public domain

https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/bl... https://devfreebooks.github.io/

comment by asicsp · 2020-04-26 · in Why my book can be downloaded for free (2014)

https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/bl...

comment by albertoCaroM · 2020-04-26 · in Links to Free Books on Programming

…terminal (UNiX > PowerShell though powershell is decent), and here’s a bunch of free coding books. https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books

comment by FiveSquared · 2019-01-27 · in The free hack of coding

…ttp://blog.danwin.com/free-python-guides/ http://ftp.ntua.gr/mirror/python/topics/learn/non-prog.html https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/fr... https://www.reddit.com/r/learnpython/

comment by jessmc · 2019-01-27 · in Python tutorial for beginners

List of Free Learning Resources https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/bl...

comment by pyeu · 2018-01-28 · in Ask HN: Books/courses for self-taught programmer

…* Right-left Rule: http://ieng9.ucsd.edu/~cs30x/rt_lt.rule.html (via HN) * More free C stuff: https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/bl... (I had to go search through lots of stuff to finally find resources that explain…

comment by da02 · 2017-09-08 · in Beej's Guide to C Programming (2007)

A straight up copy/rehost of https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/bl... with some sections removed. Why the fork?

comment by Zyst · 2017-07-15 · in Programming Books

…Atom ( https://atom.io ) Using these resources: - https://github.com/prakhar1989/awesome-courses - https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/bl... - https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev Maybe you would be a good…

comment by gothrowaway · 2017-06-09 · in Ask HN: People who completed a bootcamp 3+ years ago: what are you doing now?

…courses online for free: https://github.com/prakhar1989/awesome-courses Free Programming Books: https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books/bl... Free development services: https://github.com/ripienaar/free-for-dev And you do…

comment by gothrowaway · 2017-06-09 · in Ask HN: People who completed a bootcamp 3+ years ago: what are you doing now?

…spam I can't read and can't get translated. In the meantime, I would like to recommend the list: https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books as a real instance of whatever this post is supposed to be.

comment by cheaprentalyeti · 2017-06-02 · in Best sites to download books for free

Is there any reason to to this without cooperation with https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books which already has over 4K commits and 16K forks?

comment by gluejar · 2016-11-09 · in Show HN: DevFreeBooks – A collection of free books for developers

https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books is always worth a look.

comment by rwd · 2016-11-09 · in Show HN: DevFreeBooks – A collection of free books for developers

…costs $40, and is not available for Linux users. And there are free resources for learning Elixer: https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/fr...

comment by inetsee · 2015-12-23 · in Learn Elixir the Fun Way: Red:4

https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/fr...

comment by geoff-codes · 2015-09-09 · in Free Data Science Books

Suggest putting this in a repo somewhere, in the vein of: https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/fr... https://github.com/ligurio/free-software-testing-books/blob/... etc.

comment by geoff-codes · 2015-09-09 · in Free Data Science Books

…resources: http://eloquentjavascript.net/ https://github.com/getify/You-Dont-Know-JS See also: https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/fr...

comment by dusky3 · 2015-08-31 · in Ask HN: Getting started with JavaScript app development

While we're on the list of programming books topic, I'd like to mention two that can be found here: https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/fr... The first one is "Software Entwicklung in C" and it is an absolutely great…

comment by jfaucett · 2015-07-12 · in List of freely available Programming Books

A better list: https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books EDIT: looks like this blog post is actually copied from the repositary I mentioned. The repo content in Nov 2013 [0] actaully matches to this blog post. It was originally found…

comment by avinassh · 2015-07-12 · in List of freely available Programming Books

There are plenty of good, free online CS resources. Check out this page: https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/fr... Also, have a look at MOOCs on platforms like Udacity, Coursera, edX, etc. Personal recommendation:…

comment by veddox · 2015-07-02 · in Ask HN: I want a change in my life and become a developer

…A Github hosted list of free programming books (merging SO and other sources): https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/fr...

comment by agumonkey · 2015-06-22 · in Ask HN: What are some of the best written programming books?

This repo maintains list of free programming books - https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books

comment by avinassh · 2015-05-28 · in The Hacker Shelf: Collection of free books for the intellectually curious

…with Python - Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python - Making Games with Python & Pygame [0] - https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books [1] - http://www.greenteapress.com/ [2] - https://inventwithpython.com/ [3] -…

comment by avinassh · 2015-05-27 · in Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?

obligatory https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/fr...

comment by danford · 2014-05-14 · in An Introduction to Programming in Go

…got from HN and /r/machineLearning http://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/1jeawf/mach... https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/blob/master/fr... ________________________ finally, the "Maths for PHysics" texts…

comment by gtani · 2014-04-12 · in Ask HN: Math books like SICP?

Hi, repo owner here. Yep, I'm doing my best to keep dead links out. See this issue for example : https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books/issues/850

comment by vhf · 2014-04-09 · in Free Programming Books

Here is a list of free programming books on GitHub: https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books I hope it will help you and other developers write better code.

comment by gjtorikian · 2013-10-15 · in Introducing government.github.com