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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:
Please feel free to share this PDF with anyone for free
This ${insert title here} Notes for Professionals book is compiled from Stack
Overflow Documentation, the content is written by the beautiful people at Stack
Overflow. Text content is released under Creative Commons BY-SA, see credits at
the end of this book whom contributed to the various chapters. Images may be
copyright of their respective owners unless otherwise specified.
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: 2) by edIII on Monday January 22 2018, @10:33PM
If it's Stack Overflow, nothing stops you from commenting on it to update something, or correct it. I've seen many authors of both questions and answers edit their own content for correctness. Community Participation does indeed fix this.
I agree, a lot of people poo-poo Stack Overflow and deride copy-paste coding, but forget that 85% of the answer was correct. Minor syntax errors, or missing flags, are something you should find out on your own when testing the code. I've not found many copy-paste snippets of code that were good to go as is, but I've found the direction to the answer an at least, and often a good amount of help to implement the answer.
What I really appreciate are the answers that have questions with the reference material quoted, and then explained. Some contributors really need to be thanked for that, so I'm not surprised you could make a book of notes from the good content.
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