DevFreeBooks
Learning and science
free programming books collection
SHOW HN2016
571points
62comments
#17of 2,264 in 2016
Top 1%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
4 positive, 9 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 7 critical, out of 20 comments about the project. Thread score -0.13.
Idea: 2 for, 3 againstDocs: 0 for, 3 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful, curated resource
From 2 comments
This is a useful resource - thanks for compiling it. I'd suggest allowing users to submit short reviews of each ebook. I'd imagine it would be useful to have some insight as to…
bimmer44 on HNGreat resource! I hope it grows to be a huge collection indeed. Also I hope it'll manage to avoid all the potential legal problems when people (knowingly or unknowingly) start…
Artoemius on HN
Objections
Too many choices of dubious value
From 1 comment
Am I the only one who dislikes these free resource type collections? One, they present too many choices of dubious value. The most important part of book recommendations is a…
FT_intern on HN
Broken links and outdated books such as FirefoxOS and famo.us
From 4 comments
FireFox OS is a dead project and can be safely removed from the list.
akerro on HNShould probably remove famo.us as a resource. They've rebranded a little while ago.
UltimateFloofy on HNFirst/Second book in nodejs link broken for: Learn to Create Node.js Applications from Scratch
mohsinr on HNlooks like getting started with django isn't a thing anymore
Wheaties466 on HN
Requests
Online submission form instead of GitHub pull request
From 3 comments
Love this idea :). I would suggest making submitting a book easier through an online form, though. The process of forking, editing a raw JSON file, and submitting a pull request…
Feuilles_Mortes on HNFor while, to submit a book must be via GithubPR, but I will work to add a simple google form, to moderate all books in the future.
caiozo on HNNow you can submit into this form: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeXsmlLo3S7lJF82LGTOMoMpA4vg_T38Ez47gQoU6P6KaFwQg/viewform
caiozo on HN
Add user reviews of books
From 1 comment
This is a useful resource - thanks for compiling it. I'd suggest allowing users to submit short reviews of each ebook. I'd imagine it would be useful to have some insight as to…
bimmer44 on HN
Add C++ books
From 1 comment
Nice resource, any reason it's missing C++ books?
lyut on HN
Questions
Why not cooperate with free-programming-books
From 1 comment
Is there any reason to to this without cooperation with https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books which already has over 4K commits and 16K forks?
gluejar on HN
Alternatives named
free-programming-books (vhf)
From 2 comments
https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books is always worth a look.
rwd on HNActually that project has much more content, and it seems that the collection is curated a little.
b_bellomo on HN
awesome lists on GitHub
From 1 comment
Whenever I need to find resources for anything programming related I google "awesome WHAT_I_NEED" find the awesome git repo and follow the links, if I find anything interesting I…
oolongCat on HN