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Re: Free Programming Ebooks

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Post by aiscott »

muyuu wrote: post #3

AFAICS Visual LISP Developer’s Bible is not free. US$8 in Amazon, couldn't found any free download except that of the sample chapter and exercises.

It didn't appear that Let over Lambda was free either, just some select chapters at the bottom of the page.

If you click on "Table of Contents" (http://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/toc) the author gives access to the first 6 chapters with only 2 non published online. Which I think is great, I've been considering buying this book for a while but was afraid it would be too far over my head. Now I get to find out first.

Re: Free Programming Ebooks

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Post by kruhft »

aiscott wrote: post #11
muyuu wrote: post #3

AFAICS Visual LISP Developer’s Bible is not free. US$8 in Amazon, couldn't found any free download except that of the sample chapter and exercises.

It didn't appear that Let over Lambda was free either, just some select chapters at the bottom of the page. If you click on "Table of Contents" ( http://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/toc ) the author gives access to the first 6 chapters with only 2 non published online. Which I think is great, I've been considering buying this book for a while but was afraid it would be too far over my head. Now I get to find out first.

Let Over Lambda is amazing and I highly recomend it for those that would like to know just what you can do with Lisp macros. It builds on the work in On Lisp, but you can get by without reading it first.

Re: Free Programming Ebooks

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Post by chollida1 »

aiscott wrote: post #11
muyuu wrote: post #3

AFAICS Visual LISP Developer’s Bible is not free. US$8 in Amazon, couldn't found any free download except that of the sample chapter and exercises.

It didn't appear that Let over Lambda was free either, just some select chapters at the bottom of the page. If you click on "Table of Contents" ( http://letoverlambda.com/index.cl/toc ) the author gives access to the first 6 chapters with only 2 non published online. Which I think is great, I've been considering buying this book for a while but was afraid it would be too far over my head. Now I get to find out first.

LOL is a great book.

I've been through it a few times and I'll probably read it again.

If you have any questions I'll try to answer them for you.

Re: Free Programming Ebooks

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Post by mrgoldenbrown »

Learn you some Erlang is a web site, not an ebook, and apparently the author can't help us get it in PDF or kindle form for legal reasons. (http://learnyousomeerlang.com/faq) Yet he/she does hint that there is a kindle version out there. Here is what looks like the most likely candidate to me - I will try it out on the kindle later this afternoon. (https://github.com/igstan/learn-you-some-erlang-kindle#readm...)

Re: Free Programming Ebooks

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Post by brewerja »

drcube wrote: post #7

Learn Python the Hard Way is available for free on the web, but you have to pay (a nominal fee) for the pdf or epub versions. So I'm not sure it counts as a "free ebook".

You can always pull from the gitorious repository and build it yourself.
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