Learning Resource Recommendations

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

Contents

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
• Linux and Unix Bibliography - Eric S. Raymond

Non-technical

Topic	Title	Author	Notes
Hacking	How To Become a Hacker	Eric Raymond	Introduction to hacking
Hacking	The Word "Hacker"	Paul Graham	Another introduction
Hacking	Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution	Steven Levy	Book on the history of hacking

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
R	R Language Definition *
R	An Introduction to R *
Ruby	Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Web Development with Rails (2nd edition)

Computer Science

Topic	Title	Author	Notes
Algorithms	Intro to Algorithms	Corman, Leiserson, Rivest, Stein
Algorithms	The Art Of Computer Programming: Fundamental Algorithms	Knuth
Algorithms	The Art Of Computer Programming: Seminumerical Algorithms	Knuth
Algorithms	The Art Of Computer Programming: Sorting and Searching	Knuth
Algorithms	The Art Of Computer Programming: Combinatorial Algorithms, Part 1	Knuth
Compilers	The Art of Compiler Design
Computer Architecture	What Every Programmer Should Know About Memory *
Computer Vision	Learning OpenCV
Machine Learning	Machine Learning for Hackers
Networking	TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1
Operating Systems	Mac OS X Internals

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

• Checking C Programs with lint
• Mastering Regular Expressions
• Eloquent JavaScript *
• JavaScript: The Good Parts
• WebGL: Up and Running
• Node: Up and Running
• HTML & CSS: The Good Parts
• PDF Explained
• PostScript Language *

* denotes digital-only format