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Explanations is a series of articles aiming to let people play with fun parts of computers, such as graphics, compression and audio. Its tagline is "Play, don't show". The series was previously known as Xplain and focused on the X11 window system and protocol. The source code for all demos is available on GitHub under the MIT/X11 license.
A directory linking to free computer, programming, mathematics and technical ebooks, lecture notes and tutorials from around the world. Entries are categorized, and the site provides an advanced search engine.
WOW! eBook is a site for free download of online PDF eBooks, magazines and video tutorials. Listed titles include technology and software development books with paperback page counts, publication dates and ISBNs.
The Open Textbook Library is a catalog of open textbooks licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. It offers 1887 open textbooks, supported by the Open Education Network, and lists new and forthcoming titles.
CELT, the Corpus of Electronic Texts, is a digital humanities resource at University College Cork covering Irish history, literature and politics. It provides a searchable online textbase of contemporary and historical Irish documents, including literary and historical material. The project states that it keeps publishing scholarly electronic texts gratis and invites volunteers to help with proofreading.
The Internet Classics Archive provides 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, mainly Greco-Roman works with some Chinese and Persian, all in English translation. It has operated since 1994 and is run by Daniel C. Stevenson, Web Atomics. A copy was taken over by MIT IS&T after the classics.mit.edu site stopped responding. The site states that all works are, to its knowledge, in the public domain.
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Explanations is a series of articles aiming to let people play with fun parts of computers, such as graphics, compression and audio. Its tagline is "Play, don't show". The series was previously known as Xplain and focused on the X11 window system and protocol. The source code for all demos is available on GitHub under the MIT/X11 license.
A directory linking to free computer, programming, mathematics and technical ebooks, lecture notes and tutorials from around the world. Entries are categorized, and the site provides an advanced search engine.
WOW! eBook is a site for free download of online PDF eBooks, magazines and video tutorials. Listed titles include technology and software development books with paperback page counts, publication dates and ISBNs.
The Open Textbook Library is a catalog of open textbooks licensed by authors and publishers to be freely used and adapted. It offers 1887 open textbooks, supported by the Open Education Network, and lists new and forthcoming titles.
CELT, the Corpus of Electronic Texts, is a digital humanities resource at University College Cork covering Irish history, literature and politics. It provides a searchable online textbase of contemporary and historical Irish documents, including literary and historical material. The project states that it keeps publishing scholarly electronic texts gratis and invites volunteers to help with proofreading.
The Internet Classics Archive provides 441 works of classical literature by 59 different authors, mainly Greco-Roman works with some Chinese and Persian, all in English translation. It has operated since 1994 and is run by Daniel C. Stevenson, Web Atomics. A copy was taken over by MIT IS&T after the classics.mit.edu site stopped responding. The site states that all works are, to its knowledge, in the public domain.
