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Free Books Anonymous 01/29/15 (Thu) 20:11:46 No.3

How about some free textbooks?

Analytic Combinatorics: http://algo.inria.fr/flajolet/Publications/book.pdf

Analytic combinatorics is an extremely useful field for computer scientists and also programmers without much background in rigorous mathematics. It allows for detailed analysis of algorithms without the overhead of Knuth-style proofs of classical mathematical correctness.

SICP: http://web.mit.edu/alexmv/6.S184/sicp.pdf
Classic intdroductory computer science text.

Practical Common Lisp: http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/
An intermediate-level introduction to Common Lisp. I'd recommend getting familiar with a Lisp before diving into this.

Anonymous 01/29/15 (Thu) 20:49:50 No.6

Wikibooks
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Main_Page
Collaborative book writing, has
some useful books.

Open Education Handbook
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Open_Education_Handbook
Some boring overview of open education but has some great chapters full of links to free educational materials.

Write 2 Teach in 3 Days
http://wikieducator.org/Write_2_Teach_in_3_Days
How to make self-learning materials.

Anonymous 01/29/15 (Thu) 20:56:28 No.9

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Motion Mountain
http://motionmountain.net/
Free physics textbook.

Light and Matter
http://lightandmatter.com/
Another physics textbook.

Real World OCaml
https://realworldocaml.org/v1/en/html/index.html
Pretty great book about using OCaml with the Core standard library.

The Scheme Programming Language
http://scheme.com/tspl3/ (R5RS)
http://scheme.com/tspl4/ (R6RS)
The definitive guide to Scheme.

Anonymous 01/29/15 (Thu) 21:04:22 No.12

Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
http://learnyouahaskell.com/
Introduction to the Haskell programming language.

Learn You Some Erlang for great good!
http://learnyousomeerlang.com/
Same as above but for Erlang.

Nils' Tech Stuff
http://www.bcl.hamilton.ie/~nmh/t3x.org/zzz/
Various books about Scheme and other Lisps.

Anonymous 01/29/15 (Thu) 21:13:52 No.14

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Teach Yourself Scheme in Fixnum Days
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/dorai/t-y-scheme/t-y-scheme.html
Another book on Scheme.

Concrete Abstractions
https://gustavus.edu/+max/concrete-abstractions-pdfs/index.html
Even more.

Book of Proof
http://www.people.vcu.edu/~rhammack/BookOfProof/index.html
>This book is an introduction to the standard methods of proving mathematical theorems.

Anonymous 01/29/15 (Thu) 21:44:26 No.18

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Game Programming Patterns
http://gameprogrammingpatterns.com/index.html
Design patterns for programming games. Free to read online.

Producing Open Source Software
http://producingoss.com/
>Producing Open Source Software is a book about the human side of open source development. It describes how successful projects operate, the expectations of users and developers, and the culture of free software.

Anonymous 01/29/15 (Thu) 21:49:40 No.19

>>18
>Game Programming Patterns
Very cool, thanks

Anonymous 01/29/15 (Thu) 22:34:52 No.20

I am looking for some online repositories similar to http://gen.lib.rus.ec/ Preferably surrounding art and philosophy as that is what most of my reading. (Currently looking for a free copy/web version of Superflat by Takashi Murakami.)

I will add some free databases tomorrow in return.

Anonymous 01/29/15 (Thu) 22:56:40 No.21

>>20
I don't really think it counts as free but here's a list of ebook sites:
https://www.reddit.com/r/trackers/comments/hrgmv/tracker_with_pdfsebooks_of_college_textbooks/c1xrq44

Anonymous 01/29/15 (Thu) 23:06:46 No.23

Some books on Python:
http://inventwithpython.com/

Anonymous 01/29/15 (Thu) 23:22:58 No.24

bumping what looks like a potentially good board

uncollege.com

zerotuitioncollege

MOOCs

Anonymous 01/30/15 (Fri) 06:14:26 No.35

IRC channel #bookz on Undernet server.

Anonymous 01/30/15 (Fri) 07:09:06 No.37

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>>21
Appreciated. I suppose I stretched "free" beyond its breaking point.

Here are the databases I know of:
Biology (mostly chemistry related)
http://www.bioone.org/

IT:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org.ezproxy.hro.nl/Xplore/guesthome.jsp?reload=true

Literature
https://www.worldcat.org/

Medicine:
http://www.uptodate.com/home
http://www.tripdatabase.com/
http://sumsearch.org/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?holding=inlhogerottlib
http://www.pedro.org.au/

Peer review database!
https://doaj.org/

Sociology:
http://www.search4dev.nl/home

Sadly I lost many in a recent memory purge. You can find more by websearching for university databases. Northern and Western Europe especially have nice, broad collections.

Also for people interested in fine art, here are a few magazines and people I follow:
Meta Modernism:
http://www.metamodernism.com/
http://timotheusvermeulen.com/

General/contemporary:
http://artpulsemagazine.com/
http://www.mistermotley.nl/en

http://thecharnelhouse.org/2015/01/29/karl-marx-prometheus-and-lucifer/
Philosopher who specialises in Marxism and Russian culture. Equal parts philosophy and culture. A lot of neat architecture history.

Anonymous 01/30/15 (Fri) 18:05:08 No.45

http://www.openculture.com/free_textbooks

Anonymous 02/03/15 (Tue) 15:09:54 No.75

>>37
Some cool sites, thanks!

Anonymous 02/05/15 (Thu) 13:02:15 No.78

>>20
there are some good ones in onionland.

torarchive from memory. a few others too.

best to go digging.

Autodidact 03/21/15 (Sat) 15:04:39 No.243

Does anyone know if there are pirated versions of most textbooks used by uni and such?

Autodidact 03/21/15 (Sat) 15:19:06 No.244

>>243
I know that there are pirated versions of some textbooks used by unis and such. I realize this answer probably isn't that helpful but your question was pretty vague…

Autodidact 03/21/15 (Sat) 15:24:05 No.246

>>244

Well every study at a uni will give you a list of books that you will need for that year, normaly they are quite expensive.

Is it easy to find those books and just print them out at work or somewhere

Autodidact 03/22/15 (Sun) 02:59:41 No.254

>>246
And if you find a particular course you can often google for their reading lists and find them as documents hosted somewhere online.

Autodidact 03/22/15 (Sun) 17:59:13 No.255

>>254

Is there any particular place?

Autodidact 03/22/15 (Sun) 18:05:37 No.256

>>255
Check out the links in >>21

Autodidact 03/22/15 (Sun) 20:02:51 No.259

Open Source Textbooks courtesy of British Columbia (Canada) Faculty.

http://open.bccampus.ca/

Autodidact 03/23/15 (Mon) 06:15:24 No.262

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Teeline Manual, a guide to writing shorthand (a lot of reporters use this, its super handy)

Autodidact 03/23/15 (Mon) 13:55:46 No.263

>>262
Cool, thanks!
I saw a reporter using this at an event recently, it was very impressive.

Autodidact 03/23/15 (Mon) 21:48:09 No.264

File: 1427147289653.pdf (1.76 MB, A Short History Of Nearly ….pdf)

Wasn't really sure what thread to post this in but here is a free copy of Bill Bryson's Short History of Everything - it's science and politics and everything else, not a textbook but it's a free book.