Here is an excellent collection of 45 free books in PDF format which I found here — "Programming Notes for Professionals" books.
The PDFs contain this on one of their very first pages:
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Overflow Documentation, the content is written by the beautiful people at Stack
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the end of this book whom contributed to the various chapters. Images may be
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Because of the range of software development related topics covered, I thought this might be of interest to a large fraction of people on SN.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by turgid on Sunday January 21 2018, @05:08PM (1 child)
Yes, and if you have someone to introduce you to those concepts, you'll be fine. If you don't, and you don't know that you don't know you need a reference book, and preferably a tutorial in addition to the manual.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday January 21 2018, @09:34PM
The kind who brings knowledge to himself, and the kind to which knowledge must be brought.