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List of Free Learning Resources In Many Languages

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Intro

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.

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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.


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Please read CONTRIBUTING. If you're new to GitHub, welcome! Remember to abide by our adapted from !Contributor Covenant 1.3 Code of Conduct too (translations also available).

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Resources

This project lists books and other resources grouped by genres:

Books

English, By Programming Language

English, By Subject

#### Other Languages

+ Arabic / al arabiya / العربية
+ Armenian / Հայերեն
+ Azerbaijani / Азәрбајҹан дили / آذربايجانجا ديلي
+ Bengali / বাংলা
+ Bulgarian / български
+ Burmese / မြန်မာဘာသာ
+ Chinese / 中文
+ Czech / čeština / český jazyk
+ Catalan / catalan / català
+ Danish / dansk
+ Dutch / Nederlands
+ Estonian / eesti keel
+ Finnish / suomi / suomen kieli
+ French / français
+ German / Deutsch
+ Greek / ελληνικά
+ Hebrew / עברית
+ Hindi / हिन्दी
+ Hungarian / magyar / magyar nyelv
+ Indonesian / Bahasa Indonesia
+ Italian / italiano
+ Japanese / 日本語
+ Korean / 한국어
+ Latvian / Latviešu
+ Malayalam / മലയാളം
+ Norwegian / Norsk
+ Persian / Farsi (Iran) / فارسى
+ Polish / polski / język polski / polszczyzna
+ Portuguese (Brazil)
+ Portuguese (Portugal)
+ Romanian (Romania) / limba română / român
+ Russian / Русский язык
+ Serbian / српски језик / srpski jezik
+ Slovak / slovenčina
+ Slovenian / Slovenščina
+ Spanish / español / castellano
+ Swedish / Svenska
+ Tamil / தமிழ்
+ Telugu / తెలుగు
+ Thai / ไทย
+ Turkish / Türkçe
+ Ukrainian / Українська
+ Urdu / اردو
+ Vietnamese / Tiếng Việt

Cheat Sheets

+ All Languages

Free Online Courses

+ Arabic / al arabiya / العربية
+ Bengali / বাংলা
+ Bulgarian / български
+ Burmese / မြန်မာဘာသာ
+ Chinese / 中文
+ English
+ Finnish / suomi / suomen kieli
+ French / français
+ German / Deutsch
+ Greek / ελληνικά
+ Hebrew / עברית
+ Hindi / हिंदी
+ Indonesian / Bahasa Indonesia
+ Italian / italiano
+ Japanese / 日本語
+ Kannada / ಕನ್ನಡ
+ Kazakh / қазақша
+ Khmer / ភាសាខ្មែរ
+ Korean / 한국어
+ Malayalam / മലയാളം
+ Marathi / मराठी
+ Nepali / नेपाली
+ Norwegian / Norsk
+ Persian / Farsi (Iran) / فارسى
+ Polish / polski / język polski / polszczyzna
+ Portuguese (Brazil)
+ Portuguese (Portugal)
+ Punjabi / ਪੰਜਾਬੀ / پنجابی
+ Romanian (Romania) / limba română / român
+ Russian / Русский язык
+ Sinhala / සිංහල
+ Spanish / español / castellano
+ Swedish / svenska
+ Tamil / தமிழ்
+ Telugu / తెలుగు
+ Thai / ภาษาไทย
+ Turkish / Türkçe
+ Ukrainian / Українська
+ Urdu / اردو
+ Vietnamese / Tiếng Việt


Interactive Programming Resources

+ Chinese / 中文
+ English
+ German / Deutsch
+ Japanese / 日本語
+ Russian / Русский язык


Problem Sets and Competitive Programming

+ Problem Sets


Podcast - Screencast

Free Podcasts and Screencasts:

+ Arabic / al Arabiya / العربية
+ Burmese / မြန်မာဘာသာ
+ Chinese / 中文
+ Czech / čeština / český jazyk
+ Dutch / Nederlands
+ English
+ Finnish / Suomi
+ French / français
+ German / Deutsch
+ Hebrew / עברית
+ Indonesian / Bahasa Indonesia
+ Persian / Farsi (Iran) / فارسى
+ Polish / polski / język polski / polszczyzna
+ Portuguese (Brazil)
+ Portuguese (Portugal)
+ Russian / Русский язык
+ Sinhala / සිංහල
+ Spanish / español / castellano
+ Swedish / Svenska
+ Turkish / Türkçe
+ Ukrainian / Українська


Programming Playgrounds

Write, compile, and run your code within a browser. Try it out!

+ Chinese / 中文
+ English
+ German / Deutsch

Translations

Volunteers have translated many of our Contributing, How-to, and Code of Conduct documents into languages covered by our lists.

+ English
+ Code of Conduct
+ Contributing
+ How-to
+ ... More languages ...

You might notice that there are some missing translations here - perhaps you would like to help out by contributing a translation?


License

Each file included in this repository is licensed under the CC BY License.