Free Online Computer Science Textbooks

I suspect that the Computer Science textbook category is going to grow virtually exponentially once I get the time to search out for more materials. I suspect I could spend weeks just hunting online texts for this category and not even come close to finding all the great stuff available on the Internet. As this category grows, I will create sub-categories to make things easier to find. When I get done, I hope to have sections on commonly used Internet programming languages, robotics, artificial intelligence and all the other great fields of study that fall under the realm of Computer Science.

For now, I've started out with three textbooks that cover some more general concepts for Computer Science students.

Please take the time to share any online computing-related textbooks that you have come to rely upon. If you are an author, please drop me a line and tell me a bit about your work. I can be easily reached through my contact us form.

 
This course is designed for undergraduate students, not majoring in computer science, who may have to perform small programming tasks and/or deal with programmers once they graduate. Contributed by Larry Press of California State University at Dominguez Hills.

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This computer science textbook published in 2010 was made possible through the combined efforts of James F. Courtney, David B. Paradice, Kristen L. Brewer and Julia C. Graham.

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Online computing textbook written by Dennie Van Tassel with the Computer Science and Information Systems Department of Gavilan College. It compares programming language statements and their use of several different languages.

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Online Python programming textbook written by Peter Wentworth, Jeffrey Elkner, Allen B. Downey and Chris Meyers. There have been three releases of this text, the latest of which was made available in 2011.

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Marsha Du Toit, Anna Malczyk, Jean-Paul Van Belle collaborated to produce this online course text. One educator described this text as "a must-read for any knowledge worker, student and anyone else who wants to enrich their Internet life.

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