Learning Resource Recommendations

This page contains recommendations for learning technical information on a variety of subjects.

Topic	Resources	Notes
"Hacking" (example)	How To Become a Hacker - Eric Raymond	Introduction to hacking
	The Word "Hacker" - Paul Graham	Another introduction

Reference Cards

• The "Rosetta Stone" of Unix commands
• Regular Expressions
• OpenCL 1.2
• OpenGL 4.3
• OpenGL ES 3.0
• WebGL 1.0
• OpenCV 2.3
• Screen/Tmux cheat sheet

External Lists

Free Programming Books

Productivity

Topic	Title	Author	Notes
Shell	Learning the Bash Shell
Shell	From Bash to Z Shell: Conquering the Command Line
Version Control	Version Control with Git

Software Engineering

• Beautiful Code
• The Art Of Readable Code
• Code Simplicity
• Design Patterns
• The Practice of Programming

Programming

Topic	Title	Author	Notes
ASM	PC Assembly Language *
C	The C Programming Language	Kerninghan & Ritchie
C	C: A Reference Manual
C	The Standard C Library
C	The Elements of C Programming Style
C	21st Century C
C	Mastering Algorithms with C
C++	The C++ Programming Language
C++	C++ The Core Language
C++	Practical C++ Programming
C++	Safe C++
C++	Effective STL
C++	C++: The Good Parts		Still being written as of Dec. 2012
Haskell	Learn You a Haskell for Great Good
Java	Thinking in Java *
Java	Effective Java
Perl	Learning Perl
Ruby	Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Web Development with Rails (2nd edition)

Unix

• The Design and Implementation of the 4.4 BSD Operating System
• Berkeley Unix: A Simple and Comprehensive Guide
• Unix Made Easy
• The Unix Programming Environment
• Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment (2nd Edition)
• The Art of Unix Programming
• Unix Systems for Modern Architectures
• UNIX Power Tools
• Using C on the UNIX System

Security

• The Art of Software Security Assessment
• The Book of PF (2nd edition)
• Applied Cryptography
• Handbook of Applied Cryptography *
• Applied Cryptography: Protocols, Algorithms, and Source Code in C

Misc

• Introduction to Algorithms
• Checking C Programs with lint
• What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory *
• Machine Learning for Hackers
• The Art Of Computer Programming: Fundamental Algorithms
• The Art Of Computer Programming: Seminumerical Algorithms
• The Art Of Computer Programming: Sorting and Searching
• The Art Of Computer Programming: Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 1
• Learning OpenCV
• Mac OS X Internals
• Mastering Regular Expressions
• The Art of Compiler Design
• Eloquent JavaScript *
• JavaScript: The Good Parts
• WebGL: Up and Running
• Node: Up and Running
• HTML & CSS: The Good Parts
• PDF Explained
• PostScript Language *
• TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1
• An Introduction to R *
• R Language Definition *

* denotes digital-only format