mjd's Higher Order Perl should be on most people's must-read list: <a href="http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/" rel="nofollow">http://hop.perl.plover.com/book/</a>
It seems worth mentioning specific books by name, since lists of lists don't help people differentiate the great from the good. Algorithms by S. Dasgupta, C.H. Papadimitriou, and U.V. Vazirani looks really promising as an introductory algorithms textbook. I wonder if anyone has experience using it in class?<p><a href="http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/algorithms.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~vazirani/algorithms.html</a><p>I wonder a little about that text's status as a freely available draft and whether it would be kosher to distribute the pdf if that site disappears.
It's interesting to see how git/Github as a platform replaces Wikipedia in certain cases for collecting information and enabling people to contribute.
Similar list with more differences than the Stack Overflow one: <a href="http://programming-motherfucker.com/become.html" rel="nofollow">http://programming-motherfucker.com/become.html</a>
<a href="http://programming-motherfucker.com/become.html" rel="nofollow">http://programming-motherfucker.com/become.html</a><p>Another great list of books for programming languages/tools/frameworks/gen dev
This one about building Android apps using HTML/JS/CSS isn't free anymore - <a href="http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781449383268/" rel="nofollow">http://ofps.oreilly.com/titles/9781449383268/</a> - itwas in Open Feedback Publishing System some time ago. Now you'd need to buy it. (BTW, it has 2.5 stars on Oreilly site.)
Here's a nice collection about the same on Stack Overflow as well - <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-available-programming-books" rel="nofollow">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-ava...</a>
I like how this is nearly exactly the text from the stack overflow question...<p><a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-available-programming-books" rel="nofollow">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-ava...</a>
Red-gate has some decent and current t-sql programming books and mssql dev books available for free.<p><a href="http://www.red-gate.com/community/books/" rel="nofollow">http://www.red-gate.com/community/books/</a>
Reminds me of <a href="http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-available-programming-books" rel="nofollow">http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-ava...</a>
Yes, this is basically a carbon copy of other lists, but I found at least one resource that was new to me - <a href="http://refcardz.dzone.com/" rel="nofollow">http://refcardz.dzone.com/</a> So cool.<p>Thanks :D
Great list. Thanks a lot!<p>I couldn't find this url in this post and it made me pretty happy when I found it. A website full of IT book which can be downloaded for free.<p><a href="http://www.it-ebooks.info/" rel="nofollow">http://www.it-ebooks.info/</a>