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Ask HN: Does anyone have a great public domain list of programming books?

• nugmanoff 4y ago
  not sure if it is what you are asking, but https://teachyourselfcs.com/ https://teachyourselfcs.com/
  • jabits 4y ago
    This looks great! Thanks
  • Grimburger 4y ago
    Links to amazon purchases don't seem particularly `public domain`
• wizzerking 4y ago
  Not public domain,m but free for download. Usually subsidized by companies https://freecomputerbooks.com/ https://freecomputerbooks.com/ Links to Free Computer, Mathematics, Technical Books all over the World
• bawolff 4y ago
  Not too many programming books written pre 1927.
  • Mordisquitos 4y ago
    I understand that the poster is asking for a [public domain list] of programming books, not a list of [public domain programming books].
    • bawolff 4y ago
      I mean, there are even less internet lists written before 1927.
      • Mordisquitos 4y ago
        Touché.
      • necovek 4y ago
        One can explicitely assign their work into public domain (in some jurisdictions). And taxpayer funded stuff in USA is usually mandated to be public domain too (with plenty of caveats, ofc).
      • Archelaos 4y ago
        I heard of one from Leonardo da Vinci. Couldn't find the link, though.
      • quickthrower2 4y ago
        So PD software never was?
    • User23 4y ago
      Lists are generally speaking not copyrightable, which is to say in the public domain.
  • chirau 4y ago
    I take it this is a joke. Care to explain?
    • naitsa 4y ago
      "All works first published or released in the United States before January 1, 1927, have lost their copyright protection, effective January 1, 2022.“ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_domain_in_the_United_St...
• leke 4y ago
  This site is great and frequently updates the content of all the books to be "in date". https://books.goalkicker.com/ https://books.goalkicker.com/
• fredgrott 4y ago
  I think people are missing the poster's point. he or she might be asking for the ultimate list in open source programming books. Other than searching for the universities that have set up programs to develop open source programming books and obtain their own maintained lists; I know no other way to complete the task. For example, there is a group of Canadian Universities that has an overall program to develop open source textbooks that happens to include computer science.
• 6031769 4y ago
  TAOCP.
  • carapace 4y ago
    More often referred to simply as "Knuth".
• breck 4y ago
  Thanks all! This one looks great: https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books Trying to recruit them to #TeamPublicDomain
  • sethish 4y ago
    Oh we're team public domain. But this repo is only an index and we don't control the upstream licensing. Check out gitenberg or unglue.it and reach out to @gluejar if you want to talk about free ebook metadata.
• itsoktocry 4y ago
  Some of Allen Downey's books are free. Here's Think Python (How to Think Like a Computer Scientist): https://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.pdf https://www.greenteapress.com/thinkpython/thinkpython.pdf
• JKolios 4y ago
  Do you mean literally public domain or books with permissive licenses in general?
• MontagFTB 4y ago
  Stepanov’s “Elements of Programming” is free, though I don’t think in the public domain: http://elementsofprogramming.com/ http://elementsofprogramming.com/
• zote 4y ago
  Awesome Awesomeness [1] https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness https://github.com/bayandin/awesome-awesomeness [1]
• pjmlp 4y ago
  Smalltalk books are available here, http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html http://stephane.ducasse.free.fr/FreeBooks.html
• bikenaga 4y ago
  https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books However, the list is not public domain - the license says "This work, "free-programming-books", is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License." Contact the list owner and see what they say about your intended use.
• landosaari 4y ago
  Of things not listed. This site could help https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/subjects/programming-languages https://open.umn.edu/opentextbooks/subjects/programming-lang...
• f8er 4y ago
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• Faijanofficial 4y ago