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5 Excellent Free Books to Learn TypeScript

November 21, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Here’s our recommended free books that’ll you master TypeScript.

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8 Excellent Free Books to Learn Vim

November 14, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Vim is an open source configurable and powerful text editor. It’s an improved version of the vi editor, with development dating back to 1976. This software can be used to write any kind of text.

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12 Excellent Free Books to Learn Git

November 12, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Git is a popular choice for revision control because it is fast, stable, flexible, and extremely powerful. It offers a comprehensive feature set, an active development team, and a number of free hosting communities.

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6 Excellent Free Books to Learn TeX

November 7, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

TeX is a system for typesetting documents. It’s a powerful low-level markup and programming language that creates professional quality typeset text. Here’s our recommended free TeX books.

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15 Excellent Free Books to Learn LaTeX

November 5, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Here’s our recommended LaTeX books. Most of the books are published under an open source license, and all of them are free to read. LaTeX is a professional document preparation system and document markup language written by Leslie Lamport. It’s a very mature system with development starting more than 30 years ago.

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7 Excellent Free Books to Learn about Arduino

November 1, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

The Arduino is a cheap, flexible, open source microcontroller platform designed to make it easy for hobbyists to use electronics in homemade projects. Here’s our recommended free Arduino books.

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6 Excellent Free Books to Learn Bash

October 29, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Bash (acronym for the ‘Bourne-Again-SHell’) is a shell and programming language. Bash has become a de facto standard for shell scripting. Here’s our recommended free books to master Bash.

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7 Excellent Free Books to Learn ECMAScript

October 24, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Here’s our recommended texts to learn ECMAScript. They are all free to read, and a few are open source licensed.

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6 Excellent Free Books to Learn OCaml

October 22, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

The OCaml system is the main implementation of the Caml language. It has a very strong type-checking system, offers a powerful module system, automatic memory management, first-class functions, and adds a full-fledged object-oriented layer.

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3 Excellent Free Books to Learn VimL

October 17, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

VimL is a powerful scripting language of the Vim editor. You can use this dynamic, imperative language to design new tools, automate tasks, and redefine existing features of Vim. Here’s our recommended free VimL books.

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Excellent Free Books to Learn Erlang

October 15, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Erlang is a general-purpose, concurrent, declarative, functional programming language and runtime environment developed by Ericsson. Here’s our recommended free books for you to add another language to your bow!

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6 Excellent Free Books to Learn BASIC

October 10, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

BASIC (Beginner’s All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code) is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages whose design philosophy emphasizes ease of use.

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6 Excellent Free Books to Learn HTML

October 8, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

HyperText Markup Language (HTML) is used to create web pages and other information that is intended for display in a web browser.

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13 Excellent Free Books to Learn Prolog

October 1, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Prolog is a general purpose, declarative, logic programming language, often associated with artificial intelligence, computational linguistics, intelligent database retrieval, and problem solving. Read about our recommended free Prolog books.

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7 Excellent Free Books to Learn Scheme

September 26, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Scheme is a general-purpose, functional, programming language descended from Lisp and Algol. It is a statically scoped and properly tail-recursive dialect of Lisp.

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16 Excellent Free Books to Learn Lisp

September 19, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Lisp (derives from “LISt Processing”) is one of the oldest programming languages. It was invented in 1958, with the language being conceived by John McCarthy and is based on his paper “Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine”.

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7 Excellent Free Books to Learn Logo

September 12, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

The Logo Programming Language, a dialect of Lisp, was designed as a tool for learning. It features interactivity, modularity, extensibility, with flexibility of data types.

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8 Excellent Free Books to Learn Fortran

September 10, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Fortran (Formula translation) is a multi-paradigm programming language invented by John Backus of IBM in the 1950s. Here’s our recommended free books.

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11 Excellent Free Books to Learn Scala

September 5, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Scala is a modern, object-functional, multi-paradigm, Java-based programming and scripting language that’s released under the Apache License 2.0. It blends functional and object-oriented programming models.

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3 Excellent Free Books to Learn COBOL

September 3, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

COBOL is an acronym which stands for Common Business-Oriented Language. The US Department of Defense, in a conference, formed CODASYL (Conference on Data Systems Language) to develop a language for meeting business data processing needs which is now known as

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