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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 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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Excellent Free Books to Learn PureScript

January 12, 2021 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Learn PureScript with these free books.

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Excellent Free Books to Learn Objective-C

December 13, 2020 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Objective-C is a general-purpose, dynamic, object-oriented programming language that adds Smalltalk-style messaging to the C programming language.

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Free Books to Learn Kotlin

December 10, 2020 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Kotlin is a cross-platform, statically typed, general-purpose programming language with type inference.

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5 Excellent Free Books to Learn Markdown

November 10, 2020 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Markdown is a plain text formatting syntax created by John Gruber in 2004. Here’s our recommended free Markdown books.

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3 Free Books to Learn Dart

November 8, 2020 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Dart is a client-optimized programming language for fast apps on multiple platforms.

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Excellent Free Books to Learn D

September 22, 2020 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

D is a general-purpose systems programming language with a C-like syntax that compiles to native code. Here’s our recommended D books.

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6 Excellent Free Books to Learn Standard ML

August 25, 2020 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

ML (“Meta Language”) is a general-purpose functional programming language. It has roots in Lisp. Here’s our recommended free ML books.

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3 Free Books to Learn Vala

July 28, 2020 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Vala is an object-oriented programming language with a self-hosting compiler that generates C code and uses the GObject system. Here’s our recommended books to learn Vala.

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10 Excellent Free Books to Learn XML

July 14, 2020 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

XML is a set of rules for defining semantic tags that describe the structure and meaning of a document. Here’s our recommended free XML books.

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5 Excellent Free Books to Learn Icon

June 16, 2020 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Icon is a high-level, general-purpose language that contains a wide variety of features for processing and presenting symbolic data — strings of characters and structures — both as text and as graphic images. Here’s our recommended free books that’ll help you master Icon.

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4 Excellent Free Books to Learn Agda and Type Theory

June 9, 2020 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Agda is a dependently typed functional programming language based on intuitionistic Type Theory. Here’s our recommended free books to learn about Agda and Type Theory.

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Excellent Free Books to Learn Eiffel

June 2, 2020 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Eiffel is an object-oriented programming language designed by Bertrand Meyer and Eiffel Software. Here’s our recommended free books to learn Eiffel.

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4 Excellent Free Books to Learn Tcl

April 13, 2020 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Tcl (Tool Command Language) is a dynamic programming/scripting language based on concepts of Lisp, C, and Unix shells. Here’s our recommended free Tcl books

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5 Excellent Free Books to Learn F#

March 10, 2020 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

F# (pronounced F sharp) is a general purpose, strongly typed, multi-paradigm programming language that encompasses functional, imperative, and object-oriented programming methods. Here’s our recommended free F# books.

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3 Excellent Books to Learn Elixir

December 17, 2019 Erik Karlsson Books, Programming

Elixir is a dynamic, functional language designed for building scalable and maintainable applications. Here’s our recommended free books to learn Elixir.

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