[HN Gopher] Computer Science textbooks that are freely available...
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Computer Science textbooks that are freely available online
Author : MrXOR
Score : 249 points
Date : 2020-12-29 18:14 UTC (4 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (csgordon.github.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (csgordon.github.io)
| blackrock wrote:
| Fascinating list. Thanks.
| low_common wrote:
| Really helped me out when I was getting my CS degree. Some
| classes I'd use these free copies, but core classes ex.
| Algorithms I liked having the physical copy of CLRS.
| ipodopt wrote:
| In the same vein: https://github.com/ossu/computer-science
| ljhsiung wrote:
| Their link to "Computer Architecture: A Quantitative Approach
| (5th edition)"
| (https://booksite.elsevier.com/9780123838728/references.php) is
| broken. Here's a couple more [1],[2].
|
| I'm also surprised Jeff Erickson's free lecture notes [3] aren't
| there given 1) its easy to remember domain 2) its incredibly
| high, practical quality. Practical because I've had interviews
| that just grab questions from the book, and also because his
| course is basically just a walk-through of the book. It's also
| very easy to read, and although I didn't do great in his class,
| his conceptual lessons still stick with me.
|
| [1]
| http://acs.pub.ro/~cpop/SMPA/Computer%20Architecture%20A%20Q...
|
| [2]
| https://github.com/Seanforfun/Books/blob/master/Computer/Com...
|
| [3] http://algorithms.wtf
| james_white wrote:
| Couldn't recommend Jeff Erickson's lecture notes more for
| algorithms, DP, and the like. I too did rather poorly in the
| class so you're not alone! In a similar vein, Lawrence Angrave,
| a systems programming lecturer, has a wonderful crowd-sourced
| "book" [1] on all things systems programming. It is my go to
| resource for brushing up on these topics. Lastly, David
| Forsyth, a statistics/applied ML lecturer has a gold mine of a
| book for diving into ML and difficult concepts that come with
| it [2]. [1] https://github.com/angrave/SystemProgramming/wiki
| [2] http://luthuli.cs.uiuc.edu/~daf/courses/AML-18/learning-
| book...
| awnguyen wrote:
| Sometimes I'm wondering why U of I doesn't have a bigger
| presence in the online learning world, other than net math.
| The material is great.
| irateswami wrote:
| I had a lot of qualms with my CS education, the professors in
| particular, but I have to hand it to them they always either
| tried to have the book and material online for free, or would use
| the international edition of whatever textbook we needed.
| Textbooks, and higher education in general, are a complete ripoff
| for 90% of people doing it.
| ldjb wrote:
| Nothing worse than courses that require a textbook written by
| the lecturer decades ago and is now out-of-print, with only one
| copy in the library that all the students have to fight over.
| harry8 wrote:
| Yeah there is. Courses that require you to purchase the
| lecturer's terrible quality printed and photocopied(!)
| Unpublished "Lecture notes"
|
| At least a garbage textbook damages their reputation in their
| field.
| irateswami wrote:
| I had a garbage math professor in college who did this,
| total bullshit.
| ipodopt wrote:
| In the vein's shadow:
|
| [audio books] http://audiobookbay.nl/
|
| [books] http://gen.lib.rus.ec/
|
| [research papers] https://sci-hub.do/
| bluenose69 wrote:
| It strikes me as odd that these resources are listed by title,
| not by author. In my (natural science) field, it's very much the
| reverse. I wonder whether this is a disciplinary difference, or
| just a reflection of Gordon's preference.
| boblivion wrote:
| https://toc.cryptobook.us/ A comprehensive introduction to
| provable cryptography that is comparatively modern.
| ljhsiung wrote:
| That exact link is already included.
| riknos314 wrote:
| Runestone academy has a good collection of interactive online
| textbooks https://runestone.academy/runestone/books/index
|
| Disclaimer: I helped build this platform as a student
| amir734jj wrote:
| Kind of unrelated, I am wondering does anyone know a good CS
| lecture note websites? There was a one I saw here few months ago
| but I forgot the URL.
| treeman79 wrote:
| https://youtu.be/ywWBy6J5gz8
|
| Learn Quicksort via tap dancing.
| jcynix wrote:
| Not just CS books, but unglue.it offers various books, e.g.
|
| * Paolo Bory: The Internet Myth https://unglue.it/work/442013/
|
| * The Digital Public Domain: Foundations for an Open Culture
| https://unglue.it/work/136338/
|
| * Francis daCosta: Rethinking the Internet of Things (APress)
| https://unglue.it/work/310550/
|
| * Shotts: The Linux Command Line (No Starch Press)
| https://unglue.it/work/136224/
|
| * Fogel: Producing Open Source Software UT: How to Run a
| Successful Free Software Project https://unglue.it/work/135870/
|
| * Ryder: Unix as IDE https://unglue.it/work/194054/
|
| More at e.g.
|
| * https://unglue.it/free/kw.Computers%20/%20Programming/
| WalterBright wrote:
| "Programming in D - Tutorial and Reference" Ali Cehreli
|
| http://ddili.org/ders/d.en/index.html
| pron wrote:
| By no means a textbook, just a barely-edited book-length
| anthology of primary sources I put together, but let me plug my
| own:
|
| _Finite of Sense and Infinite of Thought: A History of
| Computation, Logic and Algebra_
|
| https://pron.github.io/computation-logic-algebra
| bambataa wrote:
| I enjoyed your introduction to TLA+, so looking forward to
| this. Thank you.
| st1x7 wrote:
| Thanks for sharing, this is great.
|
| It's also a bit intimidating and overhwelming. There is so much
| to learn and there is also a danger of just getting through
| textbooks that cover the same material that you've read before or
| covering stuff on a surface level without getting any practice
| with what you've learned. As a data scientist, it feels like
| anything from mathematics, computer science, statistics, large-
| scale systems, software engineering in general is within my
| domain and there is a real danger of spreading oneself a bit too
| thin and not getting that good at anything.
| rckoepke wrote:
| https://runestone.academy/runestone/books/index has 100% free
| interactive versions of high quality textbooks. They use a
| JavaScript implementation of Python which runs in the browser
| (Skulpt) to provide a REPL.
|
| Example Textbooks: Problem Solving with Algorithms and Data
| Structures using Python (3rd edition)
| gmfawcett wrote:
| An obligatory mention of the /r/csbooks subreddit, where we share
| titles like these:
|
| https://www.reddit.com/r/csbooks/
| mathnmusic wrote:
| Hoping that it's okay to share LearnAwesome's (my open-source
| project) computer-science topic page here:
| https://learnawesome.org/topics/2680f6d5-b662-4cc3-99e5-e748...
| jagger27 wrote:
| https://opendatastructures.org/ is quite good.
| kyawzazaw wrote:
| I wish this has syntax highlighting
| aronpye wrote:
| I wish these lists were better curated rather than just a dump of
| links with no commentary.
| [deleted]
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