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Programming Languages: What tool is right for which job

http://therighttool.hammerprinciple.com/browse

Perl one-liners

Perl One-Liners on Github:
https://github.com/pkrumins/perl1line.txt

HOWTO Disable tap-to-click in Ubuntu

Open Terminal window and type:

sudo gpointing-device-settings

Then on General tab click “Disable tapping and scrolling”

List of freely available programming books

From http://stackoverflow.com/questions/194812/list-of-freely-available-programming-books :

Meta-Lists

• How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Computing and Programming
• 25 Free Computer Science Ebooks
• Free Tech Books
• MindView Inc
• Wikibooks: Programming
• Cheat Sheets (Free)
• CodePlex List of Free E-Books
• Book Training – On Video!
• Sofware Program Managers Network – Free EBooks
• EBook Share @ linbai.info
• FreeBooksClub.Net
• Theassayer.org
• O’Reilly’s Open Books Project
• TechBooksForFree.com
• Galileo Computing (German)
• Microsoft Press: Free E-Books

Graphics Programming

• GPU Gems
• GPU Gems 2 – ch 8,14,18,29,30 as pdf
• GPU Gems 3
• Graphics Programming Black Book
• ShaderX series
• DirectX manual (draft)
• Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming (draft)

Language Agnostic

• Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns
• Foundations of Programming
• Computer Musings (lectures by Donald Knuth)
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar
• Patterns and Practices: Application Architecture Guide 2.0
• Security Engineering
• Digital Signal Processing For Engineers and Scientists
• Getting Real
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
• Domain Driven Design Quickly
• OO Design
• Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review
• NASA Software Measurement Handbook
• NASA Manager Handbook for Software Development (PDF)
• Introduction to Functional Programming (class lectures and slides)
• How to Design Programs
• Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge
• Online Course Materials
• Algorithms (draft)
• Data Structures and Algorithms
• Essential Skills for Agile Development
• Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation
• Learn to Program
• Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community (PDF)
• How to write Unmaintainable Code
• The Art of Unix Programming
• The Definitive Guide to Building Code Quality
• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
• Planning Algorithms
• Mathematical Logic – an Introduction (PDF)
• An Introduction to the Theory of Computation
• Developers Developers Developers Developers (broken download link?)
• Linkers and loaders
• Let’s Build a Compiler
• Producing Open Source Software
• How to Write Parallel Programs
• Don’t Just Roll the Dice
• 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
• How Computers Work
• Introduction to Information Retrieval
• Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?
• Matters Computational
• Type Theory and Functional Programming
• Getting started with Open source development (PDF)
• Database Fundamentals (PDF)
• Clever Algorithms
• Summary of the GoF Design Patterns
• Flow based Programming
• Algorithms and Data-Structures (PDF)
• Compiler Construction (PDF)
• Project Oberon (PDF)
• The Little Book of Semaphores
• Essential Skills for Agile Development
• I Am a Bug
• Mining of Massive Datasets
• Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce (PDF)
• Understanding IP Addressing: Everything you ever wanted to know (PDF)
• Operating Systems and Middleware (PDF and LaTeX)
• Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers (PDF, code written in Python)
• The Architecture of Open Source Applications

ASP.NET MVC

• NerdDinner Walkthrough

Assembly Language

• ProgrammingGroundUp (PDF)
• Paul Carter’s Tutorial on x86 Assembly
• Software optimization resources by Agner Fog

Bash

• Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide
• Lhunath’s Bash Guide

C / C++

• The new C standard – an annotated reference
• Matters Computational: Ideas, Algorithms, Source Code, by Jorg Arndt
• The C book
• Thinking in C++, Second Edition
• C++ Annotations
• Software optimization resources by Agner Fog
• Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt 4 (PDF)
• Object Oriented Programming in C (PDF)
• Beej’s Guide to Network Programming
• Learn C the hard way
• Also see: The Definitive C++ Book Guide and List

C#

• See .NET below

Clojure

• Clojure Programming

ColdFusion

• CFML In 100 Minutes

DB2

• Getting started with IBM Data Studio for DB2 (PDF)
• Getting started with IBM DB2 development (PDF)
• Getting started with DB2 Express-C (PDF)

Delphi / Pascal

• Essential Pascal Version 1 and 2
• The Tomes of Delphi

Django

• Djangobook.com

Erlang

• Learn You Some Erlang For Great Good

Flex

• Getting started with Adobe Flex (PDF)

F#

• The F# Survival Guide
• F Sharp Programming in Wikibooks
• Real World Functional Programming (MSDN Chapters)

Forth

• Starting Forth
• Thinking Forth

Git

• Pro Git
• The Git Community Book
• Git From The Bottom Up (PDF)

Grails

• Getting Start with Grails

Haskell

• Learn You a Haskell
• Real World Haskell

HTML / CSS

• Dive Into HTML5
• HTML Dog Tutorials

Java

• Sun’s Java Tutorials
• Thinking in Java
• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
• Java Thin-Client Programming
• OSGi in Practice (PDF)
• Java 6 Tutorial (PDF)

JavaScript

• Eloquent JavaScript
• Crockford’s JavaScript
• jQuery Fundamentals (starts with JavaScript basics)
• Mozilla Developer Network’s JavaScript Guide
• Essential Javascript & jQuery Design Patterns for Beginners

JavaScript (Node.js specific)

• Up and Running with Node
• The Node Beginner Book
• Mastering Node.js

Latex

• The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX (perfect for beginners)

Linux

• Advanced Linux Programming

Lisp

• A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation (PDF)
• Practical Common Lisp
• On Lisp
• ANSI Common Lisp
• Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition
• Successful Lisp
• Let Over Lambda – 50 Years of Lisp
• Natural Language Processing in Lisp

Lua

• Programming In Lua (for v5 but still largely relevant)
• Lua Programming Gems (not entirely free, but has a lot of free chapters and accompanying code)

Maven

• Better Builds with Maven
• Maven by Example
• Maven: The Complete Reference
• Repository Management with Nexus
• Developing with Eclipse and Maven

Mercurial

• Mercurial: The Definitive Guide
• HGInit – Mercurial Tutorial by Joel Spolsky

Nemerle

• See .NET below

.NET (C# / VB / Nemerle / Visual Studio)

• C# School (covers C# 1.0 and 2.0)
• Visual Studio Tips and Tricks (VS 2003-2005 only)
• Entity Framework
• Charles Petzold’s .NET Book 0
• Threading in C#
• C# Yellow Book (intro to programming)
• C# Programming – Wikibook
• C# Essentials
• Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in C#
• Illustrated C# 2008 (.zip, dead link)
• O’Reilly’s C# Pocket Reference Manual (dead link)
• Nemerle

NoSQL

• CouchDB: The Definitive Guide
• The Little MongoDB Book

Oberon

• Programming in Oberon (PDF)

Objective-C

• The Objective-C Programming Language

OCaml

• Unix System Programming in OCaml
• Introduction to OCaml (PDF)

Oracle Server

• Oracle’s Guides and Manuals

Oracle PL/SQL

• PL/SQL Language Reference
• PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference
• Steven Feuerstein’s PL/SQL Obsession – Videos and Presentations

Parrot / Perl 6

• Using Perl 6 (work in progress)

Perl

• Higher-Order Perl
• Perl The Hard Way
• Extreme Perl
• Perl Free Online EBooks (meta-list)
• The Mason Book
• Practical mod_perl
• Beginning Perl
• Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason
• Perl & LWP
• Perl for the Web
• Web Client Programming with Perl
• Modern Perl 5

PHP

• Symfony2
• Practical PHP Programming (wiki containing O’Reilly’s PHP In a Nutshell)
• Zend Framework: Survive the Deep End

PowerShell

• Mastering PowerShell

Prolog

• Building Expert Systems in Prolog
• Adventure in Prolog
• Prolog Programming A First Course
• Logic, Programming and Prolog (2ed)
• Introduction to Prolog for Mathematicians
• Learn Prolog Now!
• Natural Language Processing in Prolog
• Natural Language Processing Techniques in Prolog
• Prolog techniques
• Applications of Prolog
• Simply logical

PostgreSQL

• Practical PostgreSQL

Python

• Byte of Python
• Building Skills in Python Version 2.5
• Python Bibliotheca
• Think Python (PDF)
• Data Structures and Algorithms in Python
• Dive into Python
• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python
• Python for Fun
• Invent Your Own Computer Games With Python
• Learn Python The Hard Way
• Thinking in Python
• The Django Book
• Snake Wrangling For Kids
• Natural Language Processing with Python

R

• The R Manuals
• The R Language
• R by example
• Computational Statistics, Jeremy Penzer

Ruby

• Programming Ruby
• Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (mirror)
• Mr. Neighborly’s Humble Little Ruby Book
• Ruby Best Practices
• MacRuby: The Definitive Guide
• Learn Ruby the hard way

Ruby on Rails

• Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails By Example

Scala

• Programming in Scala, First Edition
• A Scala Tutorial for Java programmers (PDF)
• Scala By Example (PDF)
• Programming Scala
• Xtrace (Github)
• Lift (Github)
• Pro Scala: Monadic Design Patterns for the Web
• Exploring Lift (published earlier as “The Definitive Guide to Lift”, PDF)

Scheme

• The Scheme Programming Language (Edition 4)

Smalltalk

• Free Online Smalltalk Books (meta-list)
• Squeak By Example (Smalltalk IDE)

Subversion

• Subversion Version Control (PDF)
• Version Control with Subversion

SQL (implementation agnostic)

• Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL
• Use The Index, Luke! (a guide to SQL database performance for developers)

Teradata

• Teradata Books

Vim

• A Byte of Vim
• Vim Recipes

Websphere

• Getting started with WebSphere (PDF)