Joel on Software
This book covers every imaginable aspect of software programming, from the best way to write code to the best way to design an office in which to write code.
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How to be a Programmer
How to be a Programmer: A Short, Comprehensive, and Personal Summary is available in pdf and html formats.
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http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/
You Should Learn to Program
Topics in this online book: Why you should learn to program, How to talk to a computer, Arithmetic, Deferred Execution, Decisions, decisions, Over and over again, Bits, bytes, and bureaucracies, From data to information, Conclusions and How computers work.
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Watch What I Do: Programming by Demonstration
Watch What I Do: Programming by Demonstration is available online.
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Algorithms and Complexity
Classic text provides the perfect introduction to the tools of algorithmic design and analysis, concentrating on basic principles and illustrating them with well-chosen paradigms.
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User Interface Design for Programmers
Full color guide showing any programmer how to become a good user interface designer. Discusses information programmers need to know, and features examples of what to do and not to do with user interfaces.
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Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation
Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation by Shriram Krishnamurthi can be downloaded in pdf format.
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Programming Languages
This book is an introduction to the study of programming languages. The book treats programming language topics from a foundational, but not formal, perspective.
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Designing and Building Parallel Programs
Designing and Building Parallel Programs provides a comprehensive introduction to parallel algorithm design, performance analysis, and program construction. Describes the tools needed to write parallel programs and provides numerous examples.
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The Little Book of Semaphores
The Little Book of Semaphores is a free textbook that introduces the principles of synchronization for concurrent programming.
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Linear Programming: Foundations and Extensions
Free online book Linear Programming: Foundations and Extensions is devided in to following sections - Basic Theory - The Simplex Method and Duality, Network-Type Problems, Interior-Point Methods and Extensions.
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Learn to Program Using Python
This free online programming book covers the basic theory of computer programming - what it is, some of its history and the basic techniques needed to solve problems.
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Programming from the Ground Up
This is an introduction to programming using Linux assembly language. It takes you a step at a time through these concepts - How the processor views memory, How the processor operates, How programs interact with the operating system, How computers represent data internally, How to do low-level and high-level optimization.
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Free online book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is devided in to following sections - Building Abstractions with Procedures, Building Abstractions with Data, Modularity, Objects, and State, Metalinguistic Abstraction and Computing with Register Machines.
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How to Design Programs
Free online book How to Design Programs is devided in to following sections - Processing Simple Forms of Data, Processing Arbitrarily Large Data, More on Processing Arbitrarily Large Data, Abstracting Designs, Generative Recursion, Accumulating Knowledge, Changing the State of Variables and Changing Compound Values.
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