Computer Science textbooks that are freely available online

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Post by MrXOR » Tue, Dec 29, 2020, 6:14 PM UTC

Computer Science textbooks that are freely available online
csgordon.github.io

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Post by low_common » Tue, Dec 29, 2020, 6:40 PM UTC

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.

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Post by ljhsiung » Tue, Dec 29, 2020, 6:41 PM UTC

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

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Post by irateswami » Tue, Dec 29, 2020, 6:42 PM UTC

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.

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Post by gmfawcett » Tue, Dec 29, 2020, 6:54 PM UTC

An obligatory mention of the /r/csbooks subreddit, where we share titles like these:

https://www.reddit.com/r/csbooks/

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Post by pron » Tue, Dec 29, 2020, 7:13 PM UTC

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

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Post by ldjb » Tue, Dec 29, 2020, 7:14 PM UTC

irateswami wrote: post #4

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.

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.