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Re: Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?

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Post by avinassh »

This repo maintains list of free programming books [0].

Many of the books at Green Tea Press[1] are available for free:

- Think Python: How To Think Like a Computer Scientist

- Think Bayes: Bayesian Statistics in Python

- Think Complexity: Exploring Complexity Science with Python

- Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers

- The Little Book of Semaphores

- Physical Modeling in MATLAB

- Learning Perl the Hard Way

few others. Do check the site.

Secondly, books by Al Sweigart[2] are also freely available. They include:

- Automate the Boring Stuff with Python[3]

- Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python

- Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python

- Making Games with Python & Pygame

[0] - https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books

[1] - http://www.greenteapress.com/

[2] - https://inventwithpython.com/

[3] - https://automatetheboringstuff.com/

Re: Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?

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Post by MistahKoala »

gandalfu wrote: post #17

"The Macroscope" by Joël de Rosnay, a book on the systems approach http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/macrbook.html This book is an excellent, easy to read introduction to cybernetics and systems thinking, with applications to living organisms, the economy and the world as a whole. The main theme is that the complex systems which govern our life should be looked at as a whole, rather than be taken apart into their constituents…

Thanks for this - wasn't expecting to see a systems book pop up in this thread!

Re: Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?

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Post by jarin »

These are fiction, but they're really enjoyable futurist sci-fi. The first one is about the singularity, and the second one is a really unique and interesting take on artificial intelligence.

http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/fiction/accelera...

http://lifeartificial.com

Re: Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?

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Post by dmfdmf »

devalier wrote: post #32

The writings of Mencius Moldbug: http://moldbuggery.blogspot.com/ Mind-bending writings on politics, history and economics.

Read it to see for yourself but this is long-winded, pseudo-intellectual garbage advocating fascism. Moldbug is a follower of Thomas Carlyle. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Carlyle

Re: Ask HN: What are your recommended reads that are available for free?

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Post by crshults »

okal wrote: post #23

I built http://hackershelf.com just for this. It's a crowdsourced listing of legally free books on just about any topic.

Thanks for this. I was happy to see 'Patterns for Time-Triggered Embedded Systems' on your list, though the link appears broken - new link: [1]. I remember working through that book and porting everything from C to Assembly (my boss at the time was too cheap to buy me the nice Keil compiler). Once I had that library in hand, I was knocking out his projects in days instead of weeks.

[1] http://www.safetty.net/download/pont_pttes_2014.pdf

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