Free Computer Science Textbooks

Question

I would love to make a comprehensive list of the free textbooks that are available online. I know of a bunch, but most of them aren't related to computer science. I was wondering if anyone has any bookmarks to good, free, possibly old, cs textbooks that are available online?

(and please note that I am not looking to pirate textbooks, I am looking for textbooks that are free)

The two free CS-related textbooks which I have spent a little time with are Ballard and Brown's Computer Vision and A Field Guide to Genetic Programming (of course, wikibooks has a number of books, but most of them are rather incomplete).

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Good question. As yesraaj has mentioned, it is a repeat.
Please add your book(s) to this community wiki question.
(Note: most of the links provided in this question are already listed in the answers of the original question though)

Answer 1

Producing Open Source Software is one of the best books about FOSS I've yet to see.

Dive into python is also a good choice if you're looking to learn Python.

Answer 2

Check this question for Programming related books:

List of opensource programming books

Answer 3

Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs is one of the great classic computer science text books. This is used in MIT's introductory CS course, and is part of the CS curriculum at many other schools.

Answer 4

It is not a text book, but MIT has a collection of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering lectures and course work available for free. You can follow the curriculums of everything from 6.00 Introduction to Computer Science all the way to graduate level 6.845J Advanced Algorithms and everything in between.

You can get a world-class education in Computer Science (or any topic) for free!

Answer 5

http://www.mindview.net/Books

Bruce Eckel has quite a few (good) books available.

Answer 6

I've found Bruce Eckels books to be some of the better free ones out there. Not all of his titles are free, but they are slightly older as you requested. Still great for reference material.

The free ones are listen on this page.

Answer 7

A really comprehensive book on Java Enterprise Edition 5 is the Sun tutorial book. It is availiable for free as pdf or HTML on http://java.sun.com/javaee/5/docs/tutorial/doc/

Answer 8

The question is a repeat