A very comprehensive list of free, online books for all kinds of programming languages.

Books in topics of:

  • General Programming
  • Ada
  • Algorithms
  • Assembly
  • C | C++ | C#
  • CGI
  • COBOL
  • Databases
  • Delphi/Pascal
  • Fortran
  • HTML
  • Java
  • Javascript
  • Linux
  • Lisp
  • Open Source
  • Perl
  • PHP
  • Prolog
  • Python
  • Ruby
  • Samba
  • SQL
  • UNIX
  • Visual Basic and VB.net
  • XML
  • Misc. stuff that is worth reading

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