Let's take a look at the lists on science and programming from EbookFoundation
Hello everybody,
Today I want to bring you a couple of lists that are published in an uncommon way, we'll take a look at the "EbookFoundation"'s Lists, that gather together completely free ebooks about science and programming, in many languages, all in a GitHub repository.
Let's start with the shortest: the science section , which sadly has few books, not in Italian. Here we can find some books about:
- Math
- Astronomy
- Physics
- Chemistry
- Technology
For a grand total of about fifteen books, all ready to download for free.
Now let's switch to the juicy part of this post: the programming section , that includes books, online courses, even interactive, resources, podcasts and screencasts, in Italian too and among the available languages we can find, there are:
- Ada
- Assembly
- C, C#, C++
- Haskell
- HTML/CSS
- Java
- TeX
- Lisp
- Lua
- Perl
- Php
- Python
- R
- Ruby
- Many, many, many, many others...
There are also language-agnostic resources, which are a bit more general. This GitHub is a real goldmine for the people who want to sharpen their computer knowledge also with less-classic subjects, like Machine Learning.
And now we're at the unique perk of both these repositories: being hosted on GitHub, anybody can give their own contribution with their own findings, with the classic Forking/Pull Request system, with preference to multiple small pull requests, instead of a big one.
I'm leaving you with another link to the main GitHub page of EbookFoundation: link .
Our trip in the world of free learning is not over yet, I'll keep on looking around for more resources to give you.
Have a good one and see you in the next post!
Penaz.