Languages

Python

• Dive Into Python
• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist
• A Byte of Python
• Python for Fun

Ruby

• Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
• Programming Ruby – The Pragmatic Programmer’s Guide

PHP

• Practical PHP Programming
• Zend Framework: Survive the Deep End

Perl

• Extreme Perl (license not specified – home page is saying “freely available”)
• The Mason Book (Open Publication License)
• Practical mod_perl (CreativeCommons Attribution Share-Alike License)
• Higher-Order Perl

C

• The C book

C++

• Thinking in C++
• C++ Annotations
• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist

C#

• .NET Book Zero: What the C or C++ Programmer Needs to Know About C# and the .NET Framework
• Illustrated C# 2008
• Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in C#
• Threading in C#

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a series by chingav

• Introduction to Ruby I

  

  This video is a basic introduction to Ruby. It starts out with showing some of the basic reflection capabilities of Ruby such as (10**10).class. Then chingav talk about indefinite chaining of methods.

   

• Introduction to Ruby II

  

  This video is about creating one’s own classes. chingav walk through a bioinformatics class chingav ported from here: http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2002/10/17/biopython.html (Oreilly online’s Beginning Python for Bioinformatics).

   

• Introduction to Ruby III

  

  chingav talk about Deep Copy versus Shallow Copy, some Regular Expressions basics(including object-oriented regular expression idioms), implementing to_s in user classes, using case statements, Ranges, File input, single quote vs. double quote strings.

   

• Introduction to Ruby IV

  

  chingav talk about marshaling(serialization), attr_reader, and an introduction but don’t finish showing an existing example of implementing each in one’s own class.

   

• Introduction to Ruby V

  

  chingav talk briefly about how CSV Reader includes Enumerable and defines each. chingav talk about extracting information from a typical log file. chingav give an extended example (long but not that complicated) of Distributed Ruby, and point viewers to the first edition of Programming Ruby by Dave Thomas.