EbookFoundation/free-programming-books
:books: Freely available programming books
About the project
A curated list of free programming books, courses, cheat sheets and podcasts in dozens of languages, maintained by the Free Ebook Foundation.
Useful for
- Find a free book on a specific programming language or topic
- Pick learning materials in your native language to study programming
- Submit a pull request to add a free resource you found to the right section
README summarized by DeepSeek V4.1 Flash. Details may be inaccurate.
Why it’s trending
- 48 stars so far today, about 88 expected by the end of the day.
- Over the last two days the pace is 1.5× that of the previous week and a half.
- GitHub Trending Python today: #6, +169 stars.
- About 16 forks a day — people are taking the code.
- Recent forks include notable developers: @usamaaelgendy (648 followers).
Stars per day
Bars are daily stars, the line is the usual pace. Red marks spike days.
Numbers
- Total stars
- 397,944
- Today
- 48 · ≈ 88 by evening
- Forks
- 66,852
- Issues and pull requests
- 13,132
- Watchers
- 9,794
- Language
- Python
- License
- CC-BY-4.0
- Created
- October 11, 2013
- Last push
- September 24, 2026
Star trust
Growth looks organic: forks and discussion are in line with active projects, and stars arrive unevenly, the way people give them.
These are heuristics, not a verdict: we judge by the repository’s behavior, not by a list of stargazers.
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- September 27, 2026GitHub Trending Python today: #6, +169 stars
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