Announcing FreeTechBooks.com

Textbook Revolution will be collaborating with freetechbooks.com to bring you even more free books! Since 2002, freetechbooks.com has catalogued free, legal computer and technical books from around the web, much like TBR does for college textbooks. This collaboration will allow each of the two sites to focus on their specialties. Reciprocal links will direct site visitors to the appropriate sections of the other sites, and computer books submitted to TBR will be directed to freetechbooks.com for inclusion on that list. Eventually, we hope to move all computer/tech content at TBR over to FTB. So don’t wait—go check out freetechbooks.com!

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"Thinking In" Programming ebook Series

Bruce Eckel

These are electronic books in HTML on C++ and Java, along with the source code.

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169 Programming E-Books

An enormous list of programming textbooks.

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660 Programming E-books at ITQuestionBank.com

Ebooks are just one of the resources at ITQuestionBank.com, which also has thousands of links in just about every IT category.

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Artificial Intelligence Wikipedia-based Free Textbook

Arthur Murray

Here’s a book on artificial intelligence that the author made available online in 2002. He recently went through and updated each of the 40+ chapters with links to wikipedia.

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C# School Ebook

Faraz Rasheed

A well-organized PDF book on C# from Programmers Heaven.

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Computer Organization and Design Fundamentals e-Book

David Tarnoff

This book can serve either as a textbook to an introductory course on computer hardware or as the basic text for the aspiring geek who wants to learn about digital design.

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Dive into Python

Mark Pilgrim

A Python book for experienced programmers.

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Free IT E-Books at free-itebooks.com

A site that compiles IT e-books, with lots of ads.

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Free Programming Books from Apress

Free books on a variety of programming topics.

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Free Software, Free Society

Richard Stallman

The bible of the Free Software movement

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How Computers Work: Processor and Main Memory

Roger Young

Starting out with simple hand-drawn black and white pictures and a lean, straightforward writing style, the text moves from the basics of electrical machines to memory, processors, instructions, and more.

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How to Design Programs

Matthias Felleisen, et al.

A very accessible introduction to computer programming.

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How To Think Like a Computer Scientist

Allen B. Downey, Jeffrey Elkner and Chris Meyers

An introductory programming textbook.

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Introduction to Programming Using Java

David J. Eck

A free, on-line textbook on introductory programming, which uses Java as the language of instruction.

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Jan's Illustrated Computer Literacy 101

Jan Smith

Computer course for beginners in this well-done online only textbook, also available in spanish.

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JavaScript Primers

Joe Burns

Web-only Java Textbook from the HTML Goodies site, which also has many resources for general website maintenance.

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JEDI

JEDI is a collaborative project that aims to make high-quality, industry-endorsed IT and Computer Science course material available for free to unversities and colleges in the Philippines.

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Ju Rao's Homepage: Free Computer Books

Ju Rao

Another big collection of computer books.

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Kerala Information Technology

A high school primer on IT from the government of Kerala, India, with a strong emphasis on open source software.

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