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34 Excellent Free Books to Learn all about R

May 19, 2025 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

This article recommends free books which will teach you the basics of R, how to produce amazing plots, how to apply R to lots of disciplines, and how to efficiently program in R. Many of the books are open source.

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8 Excellent Free Books to Learn Julia

May 8, 2025 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Julia is a high-level, high-performance, homoiconic and functional dynamic programming language for technical computing. Its roots are in Lisp.

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48 Excellent Free Books to Learn Python

April 20, 2025 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming, Roundup

This article selects an extensive range of high quality Python books. Readers are presented with a diverse set of books with general texts designed for beginners, intermediate, and advanced programmers.

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8 Useful Free Books to Learn about Deep Learning

March 27, 2025 Erik Karlsson Books, Scientific

Deep Learning is a subset of Machine Learning that uses multi-layers artificial neural networks to deliver state-of-the-art accuracy

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18 Useful Free Books to Learn about Machine Learning

March 25, 2025 Erik Karlsson Books, Scientific

Machine Learning is the practice of using algorithms to parse data, learn insights from that data, and then make a determination or prediction.

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10 Best Free and Open Source Linux Speed Reading Tools

January 30, 2025 Steve Emms Books, Roundup, Utilities

The software featured in here is based on spritzing. Read text without moving your eyes, and therefore rapidly increase your reading speed.

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12 Best Free Books to Learn about Haskell

March 9, 2024 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Haskell is a standardized, general-purpose, polymorphically statically typed, lazy, purely functional language, very different from many programming languages.

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8 Excellent Free Books to Learn Forth

February 24, 2024 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Forth is an imperative stack-based programming language, and a member of the class of extensible interactive languages. Here’s our recommended free books to learn Forth.

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13 Excellent Free Books to Learn Ada

February 19, 2024 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, wide-spectrum, multi-paradigm, object-oriented high-level, ALGOL-like programming language, extended from Pascal and other languages. We recommend 13 free books to learn Ada.

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Library Tools

7 Tools to Empower Librarians

January 4, 2024 Steve Emms Books, Education, Roundup

Open source software is a popular choice for libraries and librarians. We recommend the finest tools for librarians.

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Excellent Free Books to Master Programming

August 18, 2023 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming, Reviews

What you need is a curated list of programming books. Better than that. A curated list of the best free programming books.

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Best Free and Open Source Software – Documentation

June 3, 2023 Steve Emms Books, Programming

A huge compilation of the best free books and tutorials to learn a huge range of programming languages. There are also free Linux books.

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Excellent Free Books to Learn QML

March 10, 2022 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Qt Modeling Language (QML) is a hierarchical declarative language for user interface layout with a syntax similar to JavaScript Object Notation (JSON).

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Programming Books

5 Excellent Free Books to Learn Crystal

February 3, 2022 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Crystal is a general-purpose, concurrent, multi-paradigm, object-oriented programming language. Here’s our recommended free books to learn Crystal.

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Programming Books

6 Excellent Free Books to Learn Racket

December 16, 2021 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Racket is a general-purpose, object-oriented, multi-paradigm, functional, imperative, logic based programming language.

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5 Excellent Free Books to Learn CSS

December 7, 2021 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

We recommend the best free books to learn CSS, a language which specifies the appearance of web pages.

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6 Excellent Free Books to Learn Coq

November 8, 2021 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Coq is a dependently typed language. This means that the types of the language may depend on the values of variables. Here’s our recommended free books to learn Coq.

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Programming Books

3 Excellent Free Books to Learn Dylan

October 2, 2021 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Dylan is a multi-paradigm language supporting functional and object-oriented programming. Here’s our recommended free books to learn Dylan.

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Programming Books

5 Excellent Free Books to Learn Raku

September 7, 2021 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Raku is a member of the Perl family of programming languages. Here’s our recommended free books to learn Raku.

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Programming Books

Excellent Free Books to Learn PostScript

July 6, 2021 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

PostScript is an interpreted, stack-based language similar to Forth but with strong dynamic typing, data structures inspired by those found in Lisp, scoped memory and garbage collection.

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