New books thread

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Cool functional programming books. The 2021 one is the latest version I could find, a new edition should be released soon at Manning. I use the Scala one with Haskell, so far so good. >What the fuarrrk is happening to lainchan, can't seem to be able to post anything.

I have a fairly big collection of recent PDFs so I'll continue to upload some in the following weeks, anybody got the recently released third edition of The Latex Companion ?

>>36545 >What the fuarrrk is happening to lainchan, can't seem to be able to post anything. The spam attacks are to blame.

All a man needs to succeed in this *nix world.

I think those are very useful books for rubyists, I wonder if Metaprogramming Ruby 2 should be included. Ruby Under a Microscope is getting a little outdated but still very interesting to get you started. Next step is actually fiddling with the implementations (new features, jruby, ...) Pragmatic programmer has already been posted here: >>36542 >flood flood detected flood detected flood detected flood detected

Collection of books on Symbolic AI. I think GOFAI is pretty neat. Although antiquated, Classical AI programs are understandable, relatively resource efficient, and elegant, usually written in a functional/logical style in a symbolic language like Lisp or Prolog. It's a good reminder of what AI used to be before it became synonymous with Machine Learning, or Deep Learning now. https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp https://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/BPS/readme.html

>>36572 Knowledge-based systems are an interesting novelty of the past. There's plenty of free and open source libraries for making expert systems, but I cannot find expert systems that used to be in production out in the open.

>>36550 I learned the basics of Perl because I was trying to learn regular expressions, and the best thing is that the soykafty scripts I wrote 5 years ago are still working fine to this day. I feel like I should put more time into learning it deeply just for this reason.

>>36590 I use Perl everyday at work and on side projects, it's by far the best language for doing things (whatever they may be), I love crushing OOP fanatics that use Python at work with one liners. It really is the Unix hackers language.

Do you have something for advanced Java - also about newer futures from > Java 14? I need to know everything, all lowlevel details about Java, how garbage collection works, memory, concurrency model, everything

>>36603 These 2 worked well for me.

>>36604 hard to believe best book about Java concurrency is 17 years old

>>36606 Why is that hard to believe? Java's concurrency model hasn't changed.

>>36604 Only found an Epub version so here is a conversion to PDF for anyone interested. The table of contents works.

>>36539 I'm interested the best, most modern resource about the linux kernel and its userspace systems.

>>36619 I'm currently reading pic related, which should be a good entrypoint for what you're looking for. If you're looking for something more advanced instead I wouldn't really know what to recommend.

>>36643 my brother in christ, i was just about to go to the library to check out an outdated version don't feel bad about taking away their business, trust me, this one gets more than enough.

>>36589 Can't wait to read about Ershov's introduction to theoritical programming approved by the USSR in 1977

Since people seemed interested in Perl

Any good books on embedded systems programming?

>>36646 Advanced Perl is great, wish O'Reilly would make a 5.24 or newer edition of both programming perl and Advanced Perl. One can dream I guess

Been trying to find an Epub of this for so long

>>36784 >unknown file extension Lainchan can't even epub lol. Just remove the appended '.txt'

>>36785 Ugh I tried everything, this fuarrrking site won't let meupload an epub, at least delete my posts >>36784 It's on libgen anyway

An opiniated roadmap to become a reverse engineer and the book mentioned in it.

>>36984 No books will make you a reverse engineer. Just learn assembly on your favorite architecture and spend 10 years reverse engineering stuff. It's how everyone does it.

>>36986 that's the tldr of the roadmap

Anyone have any books on Common Lisp that they liked? I've used Clojure for a while but I miss native compilation :(

>>37431 I'm also a Clojure guy. It feels like an insanely large learning curve, with lots of weird handicaps and complexities, so I'm checking out the roots too and will maybe come back to it after my pilgrimage. This CL book is taking my time https://github.com/norvig/paip-lisp/tree/main Its very friendly and practical. Also vouched by >>36572

Have anyone got Nils M. Holm's books? "An Introduction to Array Programming in Klong" and "Lisp system implementation" in particular.

>>37431 https://gigamonkeys.com/book/ The K&R of CL.

What programming language should I learn first ? c++ or java ?

>>38124 Depends what you want to do.

>>37431 "ANSI Common Lisp" I almost never see people mention it but it's good and thorough.

>>38124 Out of those 2, definitely Java. I know C# and a bit of C++ and I can verify that C++ is very complex and large language. Java (and C#) are much easier to learn. C# is basically a clone of Java (more or less). But there are other languages that are even better than Java or C# for a beginner to start with. I highly recommend starting with a language that is simpler. I recommend one of these: Ruby/Python/Perl/Lua/Scheme (R5RS). Any text editor is good for these languages (Try (Neo)Vim, Gnu Emacs and VS{Code,Codium}). If you are unsure which language to learn, start with Python by working through Automate The Boring Stuff With Python book and the free MOOC at: https://www.mooc.fi/en/courses/ The MOOC starts from zero but it also covers basics of OOP. If you really want to start with Java, you should read: Head First Java (and possibly read Head First Design Patterns later, but avoid using a OOP design pattern, unless you know that you should use one). P.S. I think the mooc.fi site has an older (and ended) MOOC course that uses Java, It can be still accessed but it uses NetBeans with custom plugin and the current MOOCs use VSCode with another/different custom plugin and I think that the NetBeans plugin is not being developed anymore, so I don't know if it still works. I recommend using Eclipse or IntelliJ IDEA Community Edition for Java development outside of the MOOC (in my honest opinion, NetBeans is worse than the other 2 IDEs). I also highly recommend visiting https://dev.java/learn/ For learning C++, I recommend C++ Primer (Note: it's not the same book as C++ Primer Plus) or maybe Programming Principles And Practice Using C++ 2nd Edition aka PPP2 but keep in mind that PPP2 is a very verbose and slow book.

>>38124 Java is a little nicer for beginners (better debugging, doesn't have manual memory management) but it doesn't really matter unless you have specific projects in mind that would benefit from one language or the other. Beyond that, if you choose Java, I agree with >>38142 and would add to look into the recent Java changes that make it a lot nicer to work with, especially the functional changes.

>>38144 >doesn't have manual memory management OOP tends to kill this. Garbage collector cant keep up and then you have to write a manual memory manager for reusing objects to keep performance alive. That aside really good feature with java&eclipse is you can modify running code and see the effect of your changes as soon as you hit ctrl+s without recompile&restart delay. Weirdly nobody advertises this. Was legit mad when i accidentally found it because nobody told me this is possible while teaching all the other fringe methods you never use.

>>38146 >Garbage collector cant keep up Yeah, right. We talking about state of the art GCs like the new generational ZGC? Or generational immix like what most runtimes are picking up. Anyway, the GC should be tailored to the kind of memory workloads you're expecting: https://medium.com/@MartinCracauer/llvms-garbage-collection-facilities-and-sbcl-s-generational-gc-a13eedfb1b31

>>36546 here you go b0dy was too short or empty b0dy was too short or empty write a longer post

Do you all have some good books in relation to C programming? >inb4 k&r although i would like the old og edition, if some lainanon would kind enough to put it here, thanks

>>38620 Good entry level book https://nostarch.com/Effective_C SEI CERT Coding Standards a book or their web site.

>>38620 >Do you all have some good books in relation to C programming? C Programming A Modern Approach 2e 2008 King

>>38620 I never see anyone talking about this book, but it’s the simplest and easiest to understand intro to C that I have ever read

>>38620 >Do you all have some good books in relation to C programming? Here is the og 1978 book which was published and served as the initial standard for the language before ANSI C

maybe more academic than most of the other books here, but very interesting nonetheless.

Anyone have books on modern C#/.NET? Especially interested in networking. Creating custom protocols, etc.

epub of HTMX book mentioned here >>38725

>>38625 What a nice book! (i'm not lainlaid anon).

>>38625 Nice resource anon. I've been getting into C and I specifically wanted to work on GUI programming in the language. Seems to be that this book is GTK centered which is actually what I've been looking for.

>>38762 idk about networking and protocols but i found these two nice lately

>>36986 Books can help prime you though. It's like any skill, a book won't make you skilled, but will make it easier to become skilled.

anyone have a good book for C++? Something like C Programming: A Modern Approach but for C++.

>>38982 Is learncpp.com not enough?

Oberon OS <3 what you guys think about it ?

>>39108 I've always been curious about it. I know it was an influence on Go, but that's where my knowledge of it ends.

anyone here made his own boot-loader before ?

>>39177 I have before when I was much younger for aarch64, also based book, anyone interested in firmware or os internals should check out opensecurity training and the csapp.

>>39180 i am trying to build one but i would like to do my own disk partition program from scratch too , the prob is that there is little info concerning the usb firmware

>>39187 Sounds very cool! I'd love to see you in other threads working on it.

>>39189 i am studying things from the deep surface instead of surface deep. here is some stuff about refinement calculus.

what is your knowledge extent in graph theory?

great introductory programming book

>>39208 This book is great, Joe was a great teacher and evangelist. One of the reasons I'd recommend Erlang over Elixir or other derivative languages is because of this book. It's over a decade old but Erlang hasn't changed enough to make the it dated. It would be nice if there was a modern errata documenting changes and additions for Erlang since it was released, but I believe the only section about Maps is out of date. The Erlang docs themselves are excellent though so it's not a problem either way. https://www.erlang.org/doc/system/maps.html

>>38645 I am currently reading this book and is very interesting but it's hard to think of a way to apply it to cs (except for programming language development)

Hi Lain. I don't know how to code aside from basic scripting in Linux. I want to learn C as a first proper language. What book should I pick up?

>>39177 I wrote a lil El Torito bootloader once

Can anyone here recommend a linux tool to break DRM on amazon books? I need to get off that platform.

>>39792 google it, like please. the answer is so obvious so i will not give it to you

>>39730 would you be able to do it without recurring to El Torito?

Long shot but does anyone have the official TAOCP pdfs? https://www.informit.com/promotions/art-of-computer-programming-books-and-ebooks-140521

>>39802 the b0dy w4s too sh0rt, too sh0rt; too sh0rt

does anyone have Fundamentals of Computer Graphics or any good computer graphics books?

>>40906 I have this. Preemptive keystrokes.

>>38620 >Do you all have some good books in relation to C programming?

>>40911 > Computer Systems A Programmer’s Perspective Good introduction to systems programming.

Does anybody have queuing systems volume 2?

Are there any half decent NetBSD books?

>>41374 >The cathedral & The bazaar i've been reading that one, it's a lot of fun. Your post is a good reminder that i should finish that book

>>41377 You welcome but why the site gives me a name instead of anonymous?

>>41385 if you do not put a name in the name field, a random name is assigned to you. it's a common way to discourage people from entering a name since their name will blend with the others, raises the bar for non-users to differentiate between anon posts and pseudonymous posts (since it takes some time of lurking (or statistical analysis) before one realizes which names are generated and which are not), and (most importantly) it looks cool when all the posts use cyberpunk names. you should ask questions like this in >>>/q/ in the future

>>41374 All these are meme books.

>>41362 There is this Indian edition (wtf?! not sure if it is any different from "regular" one, perhaps it's just a branch of a publisher and the content is the same) on Anna's Archive: https://annas-archive.se/md5/145520276b5ae31fbf97593c0d4f598a Scan quality isn't very good, but seems to be readable.

>>41486 thank you so so so so much! I can't tell you how long i've been looking for it <3

>>41486 >not sure if it is any different from "regular" one i've bought "indian editions" of books before (not this one in particular) and i think the only difference was that the paper and cover were more "cheaply made". the content itself was the same.

Math For Programming. (From Boolean Algebra to LinAlg/Calculus).

>>39208 I wish I would have learned Erlang earlier. I spent too much of my life doing web development, and when it came time to write a long-lived, soft-realtime system, I was unprepared.

i'm reading pic related and i like it so far. the first two chapters are about C and its better than any C book i've ever read. straight to the point, no babby soykaf, no assuming that you dont have the slightest idea about what programming is.

Should I read Concrete Mathematics before, after or simultaneously with TAOCP? Or is it better for me to choose one or the other?

>>42006 Neither. Instead, post this same question in a different thread every seven days. Never read either book.

>>42006 0) Both books are about doing exercises 1) I find exercises from concrete book simpler than exercises from taocp 2) taocp has programming exercises, which require you to learn MIX assembly and to obtain MIX simulator (https://www.gnu.org/software/mdk/manual/mdk.html) >choose one I would choose concrete math, because I don't have much time to spent on taocp exercises.

A few years ago, I came across this blog post and it resonated with me. https://taylorpearson.me/bookreview/systemantics/ It's not a technical book, but as builders of systems, I think it would be good to develop an awareness of how systems fail (so we can avoid those situations as much as possible).

The Linux Programming Interface by Michael Kerrisk Effective C by Robert C. Seacord Hacker's Delight, 2nd Edition by Henry S. Warren, Jr.

a book about software engineering from the 60s back when it was an emerging discipline and companies were still exploring different ideas about what the process should be like. most of the book is just common sense masquerading as insight or knowledge, but some chapters are very interesting. it was written by the guy in charge of developing the S/360

>>38762 the latest edition of "C# in Depth" by john skeet is the closest thing to an official book from microsoft

>>42102 >OS by tanenbaum >Unix power tools >Compilers These 3 look really interesting, have you read them? Any oppinions from other lainons for these books? I wanna print pdf books, but have a limited budget so i have to print things that are worth reading

>>42103 You make back your investment on an ereader at around the 50th pdf, if you manage to save up for one. I don't know about Unix power tools but the other two are classics. I should reread them while Knuth finishes his life's work.

>>42103 the compilers book is normal and more or less what you would expect. the minix book is kind of funky because it is about microkernels which are different from the mainstream desktop kernels, and sometimes tanenbaum wastes too much space on going on tangents like the boilerplate to make c code compatible with old, obscure compilers and such >I wanna print pdf books just buy a generic 10 inch ereader. or one of those printers that use ink bottles instead of cartridges. with the minix book in particular most of the pages are code snippets from the sources that comes with the book (and you can find on github), you don't need to print those I would only consider printing the only from those 3 that I haven't read, the unix tools book. mostly because the unix command line isn't a concept (like a kernel architecture or compiler design) that you can learn once and be done with it, I find myself relearning find or awk every 3 months when the need arises and then I completely forget my newly acquired tricks because it is more about the tool than the concept

>>42102 I just want to say: Thank you so much for these recommendations! I took a quick look at them online and they look very interesting (especially since I am very interested in UNIX). I can never thank you enough for making them known! Since I'm posting, I'd like to ask: Can anyone recommend a good BSD book/PDF, please?

>>42126 I am a fan of Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System, but it's about the kernel, so it may not be what you're looking for. Otherwise, Absolute FreeBSD is a good one.

>>42127 Thank you so much for the answer! >so it may not be what you're looking for. Surely, at some point I would like to experiment with the code, but for now I am looking for something for beginners in the BSD world; that is, something to learn how to use the system and get familiar with the environment. The truth is that I have only worked with Linux distributions and I have never had the opportunity to try BSD systems... Well, it's more cowardice on my part for not wanting to try something new, but I've decided to take the bull by the horns and experiment with BSD. Maybe I will end up liking it more. I apologize for the ambiguity of my question, and again thank you very much for your help!

>>42082 Is this useful for someone who wants to build a game engine?

>>42148 Not really. It's a high-level philosophical book about systems and system failure. It's not a technical book. You might enjoy it anyway though.

>>38982 I agree with >>39033. Most books are either outdated, do not showcase the best practices, or are not elaborate enough. learncpp.com is probably the best resource you can get, as it fulfills all those points, unlike most books. One example to show you what I mean, is that in a book I have they explained smart pointers, but never really explained what they really are, just pretended like it's some black box or dark magic inside the C++ compiler. On learncpp.com, however, they explained that smart pointers only work because of contructors and destructors and explained how to implement it yourself. This isn't supposed to be too much of an advertisement of learncpp.com, rather than against most C++ books.

>>42153 Nobody is saying it cause its considered obvious its just a class. The fact its in the standard library is already telling you its just code someone else wrote and not part of the compiler.

>>38982 Bjarne's books, "Programming: Principles and Practice Using C++" or "A Tour of C++" depending on if you already have experience programming or not. Much like with any other language, you should start with the official book if there is one, or something written by the language designer. Disregard the people recommending you web tutorials.

>>38982 I liked C++ Primer but note that it's not the same book as C++ Primer Plus.

Is Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces a good book? They keep recommending it, but “popular” is not synonymous with “quality.” I've been told it's light reading for beginners who want to get started with systems programming (I am one of them), but I'm more tempted to read Andrew Tanenbaum's Operating Systems: Design and Implementation , but I think it is more oriented to experienced people. Here is the link to the book, for those who are interested: https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/OSTEP/ Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau and Andrea C. Arpaci-Dusseau Thank you in advance...

>>42465 It is a good book and not particularly light reading. The whole thing is there on the site for free, same a few chapters, see what you think.

I just found out about this board, this is amazing.

>>42465 Depends on what you already know and what kind of system programming you want to do. For a broader overview of computer systems in general, including basic OS concepts you could have a look at CSAPP, although it has less depth on OS mechanisms. Another possible approach would be reading CSAPP or OSTEP first and then going straight to TLPI to get applicable Linux and UNIX programming skills. OSTEP is a good and accessible book, I enjoyed reading it with my *minimal* C programming skills.

sharing the love cuz this one's free

Expert C Programs by Peter Van Der Linden, The Common Lisp Cookbook by CL Contribution, & 21st Century C, 2nd Edition by Ben Klemens

>>42549 As a people, I always wanted a unix book adressed to me.

posting this because it might help someone <-- BOOK TO AVOID: Automating DevOps with GitLab CI/CD Pipelines: Build efficient CI/CD pipelines to verify, secure, and deploy your code using real-life examples by Christopher Cowell (Author), Nicholas Lotz (Author), Chris Timberlake (Author) second ever, and for the first time in like 15 years i have decided to give up on a technical book. first time i ever gave up i just bit more than i could chew and was way too young, inexperienced, and uneducated for the subject matter this time around, though, i'm convinced this book was written by fiverr and reviewd by fiverr as well such a mess, despite the subject matter being conceptually straightforward i kept going back to the same chapter over and over and over again because my eyes kept glazing over after 8th or 9th attempt to connect one paragraph to another terrible, just terrible i might be doing something wrong, but i tried too many times and i just had to give up - it started become a drastic waste of time

C will out last us all XD.

>>42674 all Packt books are like that, they're slop. you should stick to Manning, O'reilly, Apress, No Starch Press and Pragmatic Bookshelf

Anyone here have good OOP books? preferrably ones that tell you how to write it properly so you don't get aids in your code

>>42873 I feel there's no proper way to OOP you rawdog the gang of four and soykaf out what you like. that's what works. then weep.

Lately I have found success with having an AI voice read textbooks to me while highlighting the word being read. It keeps me from getting distracted and I find the uptake more effective. Oddly enough the best tool I've found for this so far is MS Edge browser's built-in PDF reader. I'd like to use something else. Are there other options in this domain that aren't paid? The paid ones look fine but it's doing such a simple thing I can't believe there's not something either free or where you pay for the AI by-use instead of paying for the whole platform monthly.

Anyone have picrel? DragonFly BSD System Design and Administration: Definitive Reference for Developers and Engineers:

post intermediate level C++ books

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>>43547 That fragment contains more than enough information to find it by simple googlling. I leave it to you as an exercise in using google.

>>43567 Wow that was such a le epic reply, lainon!

>>43567 Yeah, turns out already had it hoarded, should have included the chapter title the last time I searched. Hacker's Delight, it's even in this thread somewhere

Here's a Screen COBOL guide used for Compaq stuff. Sorry if I'm repostan

>>41374 If you'd rather read these books than actually program then you aren't meant to be a programmer. I'm not saying that as an insult I'm just warning everyone who might waste years thinking they might want to go into the computer science field because they find computer history interesting

>>43612 >If you'd rather read these books than actually program then you aren't meant to be a programmer. Imagine only doing one of these instead of both. ISHYGDDT

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>>43611 Holy cow, another NonStop Lain? I actually used that manual just recently. If you're on the IRC come on and message pen51v

anyone have pdf of vulcan programming guide

An Introduction to Computer Networks Peter L Dordal https://intronetworks.cs.luc.edu/ Due to certain minor traumas of mine, I'm not a fan of this time of year... but screw it. Happy holidays, anonymous people of the web. Sharing this resource is my gift—I hope you make good use of it. I think next year is going to be... interesting.