Become a Programmer, Motherfucker

Become a Programmer, Motherfucker If you don't know how to code, then you can learn even if you think you can't. Thousands of people have learned programming from these fine books:

Learn Python The Hard Way

Learn Ruby The Hard Way

Learn Code The Hard Way

I'm also working on a whole series of programming education books at learncodethehardway.org. These are works in progress, and feedback is welcome.

Learn C The Hard Way

Learn SQL The Hard Way

Learn Regex The Hard Way

A Huge List of Free Books Programming Languages Assembly Language C#

Bash

C / C++

Clojure ColdFusion

Delphi / Pascal Erlang F# Forth

Haskell HTML / CSS

Java

JavaScript

Lisp

Lua

Latex

Nemerle

Oberon Objective-C

OCaml

Oracle PL/SQL Parrot / Perl 6 Perl PHP

PowerShell

Python R Scala

Prolog

Ruby

SchemeSmalltalk

SQL Frameworks ASP.NET MVC Django Flex Grails .NET

Ruby on Rails

Tools DB2

Git

Linux

Maven Mercurial

NoSQL

Oracle Server PostgreSQL Vim

Subversion

Emacs

General Topics Graphics Programming Language Agnostic Graphics Programming

GPU Gems GPU Gems 2 - ch 8,14,18,29,30 as pdf GPU Gems 3 Graphics Programming Black Book ShaderX series DirectX manual (draft) Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming (draft) Language Agnostic

Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns Foundations of Programming Computer Musings (lectures by Donald Knuth) The Cathedral and the Bazaar Patterns and Practices: Application Architecture Guide 2.0 Security Engineering Digital Signal Processing For Engineers and Scientists Getting Real Domain Driven Design Quickly

OO Design Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review NASA Software Measurement Handbook NASA Manager Handbook for Software Development (PDF) Introduction to Functional Programming (class lectures and slides) How to Design Programs Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge Online Course Materials Algorithms (draft) Data Structures and Algorithms Essential Skills for Agile Development Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation Learn to Program Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community (PDF) How to write Unmaintainable Code The Art of Unix Programming The Definitive Guide to Building Code Quality How to Think Like a Computer Scientist Planning Algorithms Mathematical Logic - an Introduction (PDF) An Introduction to the Theory of Computation Developers Developers Developers Developers (broken download link?) Linkers and loaders Let's Build a Compiler Producing Open Source Software How to Write Parallel Programs Don't Just Roll the Dice 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know How Computers Work Introduction to Information Retrieval Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?

Matters Computational Type Theory and Functional Programming Getting started with Open source development (PDF) Database Fundamentals (PDF) Clever Algorithms Summary of the GoF Design Patterns Flow based Programming Algorithms and Data-Structures (PDF) Compiler Construction (PDF) Project Oberon (PDF) The Little Book of Semaphores Essential Skills for Agile Development I Am a Bug Mining of Massive Datasets Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce (PDF) Understanding IP Addressing: Everything you ever wanted to know (PDF) Operating Systems and Middleware (PDF and LaTeX) Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers (PDF, code written in Python) The Architecture of Open Source Applications ASP.NET MVC

NerdDinner Walkthrough Assembly Language

ProgrammingGroundUp (PDF) Paul Carter's Tutorial on x86 Assembly Software optimization resources by Agner Fog Bash

Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide Lhunath's Bash Guide

C / C++

The new C standard - an annotated reference Matters Computational: Ideas, Algorithms, Source Code, by Jorg Arndt The C book Thinking in C++, Second Edition C++ Annotations Software optimization resources by Agner Fog Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt 4 (PDF) Object Oriented Programming in C (PDF) Beej's Guide to Network Programming Learn C the hard way Also see: The Definitive C++ Book Guide and List C#

C# School (covers C# 1.0 and 2.0) Threading in C# C# Yellow Book (intro to programming) C# Programming - Wikibook C# Essentials Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in C# Illustrated C# 2008 (.zip, dead link) Clojure

Clojure Programming ColdFusion

CFML In 100 Minutes DB2

Getting started with IBM Data Studio for DB2 (PDF)

Getting started with IBM DB2 development (PDF) Getting started with DB2 Express-C (PDF) Delphi / Pascal

Essential Pascal Version 1 and 2 The Tomes of Delphi Django

Djangobook.com Erlang

Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good Flex

Getting started with Adobe Flex (PDF) F#

The F# Survival Guide F Sharp Programming in Wikibooks Real World Functional Programming (MSDN Chapters) Forth

Starting Forth Thinking Forth Git

Pro Git The Git Community Book Git From The Bottom Up (PDF) Grails

Getting Start with Grails Haskell

Learn You a Haskell Real World Haskell HTML / CSS

Dive Into HTML5 HTML Dog Tutorials Java

Sun's Java Tutorials Thinking in Java How to Think Like a Computer Scientist Java Thin-Client Programming OSGi in Practice (PDF) Java 6 Tutorial (PDF) JavaScript

Eloquent JavaScript Crockford's JavaScript jQuery Fundamentals (starts with JavaScript basics) Mozilla Developer Network's JavaScript Guide Essential Javascript & jQuery Design Patterns for Beginners JavaScript (Node.js specific) Up and Running with Node The Node Beginner Book Mastering Node.js Latex

The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX (perfect for beginners)

Linux

Advanced Linux Programming Lisp

COMMON LISP: An Interactive Approach A Short Course in Common Lisp Structure And Interpretation of Computer Programs A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation (PDF) Practical Common Lisp On Lisp ANSI Common Lisp Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition Successful Lisp Let Over Lambda - 50 Years of Lisp Natural Language Processing in Lisp Lua

Programming In Lua (for v5 but still largely relevant) Lua Programming Gems (not entirely free, but has a lot of free chapters and accompanying code) Maven

Better Builds with Maven Maven by Example Maven: The Complete Reference Repository Management with Nexus Developing with Eclipse and Maven Mercurial

Mercurial: The Definitive Guide

HGInit - Mercurial Tutorial by Joel Spolsky Nemerle

Nemerle .NET

C# School (covers C# 1.0 and 2.0) Visual Studio Tips and Tricks (VS 2003-2005 only) Entity Framework Charles Petzold's .NET Book 0 Threading in C# C# Yellow Book (intro to programming) C# Programming - Wikibook C# Essentials Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in C# Nemerle NoSQL

CouchDB: The Definitive Guide The Little MongoDB Book Oberon

Programming in Oberon (PDF) Objective-C

The Objective-C Programming Language OCaml

Unix System Programming in OCaml Introduction to OCaml (PDF) Oracle Server

Oracle's Guides and Manuals Oracle PL/SQL

PL/SQL Language Reference PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference Steven Feuerstein's PL/SQL Obsession - Videos and Presentations Parrot / Perl 6

Using Perl 6 (work in progress) Perl

Higher-Order Perl Perl The Hard Way Extreme Perl Perl Free Online EBooks (meta-list) The Mason Book Practical mod_perl Beginning Perl Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason Perl & LWP Perl for the Web Web Client Programming with Perl Modern Perl 5 PHP

Symfony2 Practical PHP Programming (wiki containing O'Reilly's PHP In a Nutshell) Zend Framework: Survive the Deep End PowerShell

Mastering PowerShell Prolog

Building Expert Systems in Prolog Adventure in Prolog Prolog Programming A First Course Logic, Programming and Prolog (2ed) Introduction to Prolog for Mathematicians Learn Prolog Now! Natural Language Processing in Prolog Natural Language Processing Techniques in Prolog Prolog techniques Applications of Prolog Simply logical PostgreSQL

Practical PostgreSQL Python

Byte of Python Building Skills in Python Version 2.5 Python Bibliotheca Think Python (PDF) Data Structures and Algorithms in Python Dive into Python How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python Python for Fun Invent Your Own Computer Games With Python Learn Python The Hard Way Thinking in Python The Django Book

Snake Wrangling For Kids Natural Language Processing with Python R

The R Manuals The R Language R by example Computational Statistics, Jeremy Penzer Ruby

Programming Ruby Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (mirror) Mr. Neighborly's Humble Little Ruby Book Ruby Best Practices MacRuby: The Definitive Guide Learn Ruby the hard way Ruby on Rails

Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails By Example Scala

Programming in Scala, First Edition A Scala Tutorial for Java programmers (PDF) Scala By Example (PDF) Programming Scala Xtrace (Github) Lift (Github) Pro Scala: Monadic Design Patterns for the Web Exploring Lift (published earlier as "The Definitive Guide to Lift", PDF) Scheme

The Scheme Programming Language (Edition 4) Smalltalk

Free Online Smalltalk Books (meta-list) Squeak By Example (Smalltalk IDE) Subversion

Subversion Version Control (PDF) Version Control with Subversion SQL

Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL Use The Index, Luke! (a guide to SQL database performance for developers) Learn SQL The Hard Way Vim

A Byte of Vim Vim Recipes Emacs

An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp (Third Edition) GNU Emacs manual