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

External Lists

Free Programming Books

Productivity

• Learning the bash Shell
• From Bash to Z Shell: Conquering the Command Line
• Version Control with Git

Software Engineering

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

C

• The C Programming Language
• C: A Reference Manual
• The Standard C Library
• The Elements of C Programming Style
• Expert C Programming: Deep C Secrets
• 21st Century C
• Mastering Algorithms with C

C++

• The C++ Programming Language
• C++ The Core Language
• Practical C++ Programming
• Safe C++
• Effective STL
• C++: The Good Parts (Still being written as of Dec. 2012)

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
• 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
• PC Assembly Language *
• Learning Perl
• Learning OpenCV
• Mac OS X Internals
• Mastering Regular Expressions
• Learn You a Haskell
• 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 *
• Thinking in Java *
• TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1
• An Introduction to R *
• R Language Definition *

* denotes digital-only format