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- TentyLinux, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8I would point out that if you actually bothered to put the number in, and download the zip file, almost all of the ones that I choose (8 out of 10) actually contained proper full chapters in a PDF format. There was one that I downloaded which was a single HTML file, which links off to another website for it's chapters (This was an sql one) and the "Beginning Perl" one links to cpan... but the rest are in PDF (book) format.
- bloqmon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+8em...did you read the title? where the hell did you get OS from?
- HPSauce, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Some are full PDF downloads, others are a single html file (contents page) that links to chapters online, all in html format.
- ianam, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7@natch
It must take work to be that clueless. Sure there are sample chapters -- AND a download button for the whole book. - krached, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4This site is crap. I downloaded practical modperl and it isn't even a sample chapter, just has an html file that links to the book on another site.
Either way, Mr. Kitson has pretty clearly set himself up for major trademark and copyright problems. - natch, on 10/12/2007, -10/+14This is bogus. These are not books. They are sample chapters. I looked through several sections, and only found sample chapters.
Even Thinking in Java, which author Bruce Eckel makes available free in its entirety on his web site, has only a sample chapter on this site.
I'm sure someone will find an entire book on the site somewhere and think they are proving a point, but the site should not be calling the sample chapters books. To be fair, the text "sample chapter" does appear on the site, but only inside each item's page, while the items themselves, in the list on the outside, plus in the descriptive text, are labeled as "books."
That being said, hopefully the site can grow to include complete books at some point. But for now it is vaporware. - gekkokid, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4the books i have downloaded are just html content pages which link to the pages online??? i had to download flipping zip files just for a single html page, just does not computer duderino
- pimaster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+489703
Can anyone tell me why that is the magic number of the day? - danglerman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3How to you define "Good Quality Books"?
- Jams, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I'm so lucky, my company pays for access to an online library. Take a look http://www.safaribooksonline.com/
It's really good if you don't mind paying especially when searching for code snippets. - CovardeAnonimo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3i tried to download a java book and all i got was the table of contents. no digg. link should say "samples of computer books for free download". reported as "inaccurate"
- jswaby, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3No good. I've found a lot more FREE books elsewhere online. As a matter of fact, I have gigs of ebooks and I've never paid for. There are not high quality. No digg from me.
- duality, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6Not exactly a lot of books, but I did find a couple of things I hadn't seen before. I'll digg it.
However, I do snicker every time I see resources for Assembly Language and Visual Basic on the same page. Those two are about as far apart as you can get. (What a shame there isn't a book on MIPS Assembly that they've found so far.) - lacop, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6>> Not exactly a lot of books ...
Yes, but they are high quality, as I wrote - not a lot, but good :) - CoolWind, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2All the Python books are complete (all chapters) and no online links.
- Dummies102, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2if the author of the site reads this, I have a few ruby books for him to add:
Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmer's Guide
http://www.rubycentral.com/book/
Why's Poignant Guide to Ruby
http://www.poignantguide.net/ruby/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2My company actually does the same and it's really a great deal if you find the O'Reilly books helpful!
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http://www.shoutcentral.com - babbling, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It appears that at least some of them are full books.
There are some proper (and legal) programming ebooks at:
http://www.canonicalbooks.com/free-ebooks.shtml - Hitchhiker90, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nice collection of books, especially now that I'm trying to learn some web programming. I have a feeling SQL is going to be a bitch to learn, but I'm willing to put in the effort. Does anyone else think the guy on the cover of the Beginning Perl book looks like Jason Biggs?
- JustMatt, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yeah. I got some of those as well. Just try some others, I have gotten I think 2 out of like 6 that were actually PDF. But one of the HTML files was actually pretty good. It is sort of gay though. (but I dugg it. good stuff)
- FluffyArmada, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is awesome! I've been wanting a lot of those C and C++ books for a while now. I think I'll buy some hard copies sometime just to support the publishers because they are nice enough to allow this. ;-)
[ and I like having hard copies... ] - lightcycler, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Makes you wonder what the included javascript wants with "local computer" permissions doesn't it, when you have to download ZIPs for a 150KB HTML page...
- chicksdigme, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I assume they're all legal ones. It's just a collection of links to download them.
Thanks to the own of the site for putting them together.
Dugg! - DoubtfulSalmon, on 10/12/2007, -1/+289703... that's the 'captcha' I got! :-)
- osilus, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Add PHP Programming to the list of books that only have a TOC in html and then links to another site for the chapters
- stinkyj, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2i own books that are on that site, such as dive into python (i knew it was published under the gpl book license before i bought it). cool stuff.
- deut, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1lol - I also get the "89703" - very easy to include that in a http POST but anyway, nice site. Some good stuff on there I haven't got. Nice one
- rtay150, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1now i don't have to buy any programming books
- Xoligy, on 10/12/2007, -4/+5They're just HTML documents with links to other websites!
Lame! - romman00, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1why the heck are there so many diggs....???????
- denaje, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is not free!! I "downloaded" a book on optimizing C++, and all it was was an HTML document pointed to another web site. In order to actually read the book, I have to pay $15.
- Jams, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1SQL is easy peasy to learn, bit harder to master (although its unlikely you will use it to its full extent)
- teh_toaster, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Only one out of four books that I downloaded were PDFs. All the others were HTML that simply link to MS web pages or to tripod pages with the PDF or more HTML. Semi-helpful, but a bit disappointing.
- kimzor, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Sweet, thanks for the link!
- Catalyst, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1nice to see some Cobol in there......
- bcrowell, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Theassayer.org has a catalog of about 900 online books, of which about half are computer science books. Each one has a link to the author or publisher's web page where it can be downloaded for free.
- Jams, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I just noticed, they do a 14day free trial on safari. What company do you work for by the way?
- bigdig, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Something interesting to say about these free book sites
http://digg.com/programming/So,_is_it_STEALING_ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://lab.lpicn.org/pub/books/
but barely legal... - freeboarder1402, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1hey for anybody who wants to know *.chm is an e-book foramt just search google for a chm reader to open it.
- kace7, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"THE" Python Tutorial is great: http://docs.python.org/tut/
"Diving into Python" is not really intended for the novice. - matthamilton23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is cool i'm trying to start programing and these will help a bunch.
- osilus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I didn't want A Programmer's Introduction to PHP4... I was looking at Programming PHP. Programming PHP (first one on the list) is a zip file containing a TOC in html that links to a site in the Netherlands that is currently down. Perhaps when it is up, it will contain a link to the full pdf.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Ruby > Python
- sanjeewamad, on 11/16/2008, -0/+0good..not a lot...
Here is another source to download electrical and electronics,computer related,computer networking,telecommunication ebooks...
http://www.promeganet.com/?page_id=100 - reevnat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Can not get into the site, I got this msg "Bandwidth Limit Exceeded"
http://digg.com/technology/5000_Free_Computer_Internet_Books_2 - dupswapdrop, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1more spam when will you people learn?
- bvz2000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I tried to download the python GUI programming book, but it is in .chm format. What is that? I can't open it.
- bvz2000, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ok, there are a bunch of .chm readers on the internet... so that's what I get for posting before searching.
doh. - kaens, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I love you.
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