EbookFoundation/free-programming-books
:books: Freely available programming books
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Where it stands
Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.
The project lists 429 contributors on GitHub.
Peaked at #2 in the weekly ranking the week of Sep 21, its best in the past year.
Use Cases & Benefits
- Provides a comprehensive curated list of freely available programming books and learning resources in multiple languages.
- Offers a centralized, community-maintained collection of free educational materials under a permissive Creative Commons license.
- Use for discovering free programming books and resources to learn new languages or technologies without cost.
- Use for educators seeking diverse, multilingual teaching materials to support programming courses and workshops.
- Use for contributors wanting to help maintain and expand a global repository of open programming knowledge.
Should you depend on it?
License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.
License
CC BY 4.0
Permissive content license, unusual for code: reuse is allowed with attribution, but it was not written for software.
Community files
- README: present
- Contributing guide: present
- Code of conduct: present
Watch-outs
- No GitHub releases; pin a commit or tag instead of a release.
General guidance from repository metadata, not legal advice. How we score
From the README
Search the list at https://ebookfoundation.github.io/free-programming-books-search/ .
This page is available as an easy-to-read website. Access it by clicking on .
This list was originally a clone of StackOverflow - List of Freely Available Programming Books with contributions from Karan Bhangui and George Stocker.
The list was moved to GitHub by Victor Felder for collaborative updating and maintenance. It has grown to become one of GitHub's most popular repositories.
The Free Ebook Foundation now administers the repo, a not-for-profit organization devoted to promoting the creation, distribution, archiving, and sustainability of free ebooks. Donations to the Free Ebook Foundation are tax-deductible in the US.
Please read CONTRIBUTING. If you're new to GitHub, welcome! Remember to abide by our adapted from Code of Conduct too (translations also available).
Daily snapshots
Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots
+6,399 stars over 80 days across 8 snapshot days; best day +51 on Sep 28.
Forks
67.4K+693
Open issues
89+8
Compared with peers in Education
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| rohitg00/ai-engineering-from-scratch | 78.3K | +1.6K | 75 | 1 day ago |
| mnfst/awesome-free-llm-apis | 12.8K | +754 | 75 | — |
| luongnv89/claude-howto | 46.9K | +440 | 75 | 161 days ago |
| github/awesome-copilot | 41.0K | +251 | 75 | — |
| EbookFoundation/free-programming-books | 401.2K | — | 45 | — |
| ripienaar/free-for-dev | 141.8K | — | 45 | — |
| Category median | 46.9K | +597 | 75 | — |
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