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The Little Book of Semaphores

Allen B. Downey

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rubiquity
Eloquent Ruby is one of my favorite books, too. That book really motivated me to learn how programming languages work. Here are a few other books I found to be enjoyable and well-written: Programming Erlang by Joe Armstrong Programming Elixir by Dave Thomas Seven (more) Languages In Seven Weeks by Bruce Tate Think Bayes, Think OS, How To Think Like A Functional Programmer (Think OCaml) and The Little Book of Semaphores by Allen B. Downey
avinassh
This repo maintains list of free programming books [0]. Many of the books at Green Tea Press[1] are available for free: - Think Python: How To Think Like a Computer Scientist - Think Bayes: Bayesian Statistics in Python - Think Complexity: Exploring Complexity Science with Python - Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers - The Little Book of Semaphores - Physical Modeling in MATLAB - Learning Perl the Hard Way few others. Do check the site. Secondly, books by Al Sweigart[2] are also freely available. They include: - Automate the Boring Stuff with Python[3] - Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python - Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python - Making Games with Python & Pygame [0] - https://github.com/vhf/free-programming-books [1] - http://www.greenteapress.com/ [2] - https://inventwithpython.com/ [3] - https://automatetheboringstuff.com/