Hi all,


I'm looking for tutorials, e-books, books regarding the following:

• databases
• network programming using TCP/IP
• programming basics (forgot most unfortunately)
• etc (post your things here also plz)

Which programming languages would you recommend ?
Could you provide me with some URLs regarding the above ?

General programming should be done in C or C++ I guess. But PhP, Perl, Python, Fortran, Java, just to name some are widely used.
I started with Pascal, a pretty straight foward language, and now I am in the process of migrating to C/C++.
I have used www.uol.com.br/olinux as a tutorial, the problem is : it is in Portuguese . But I am sure you can find more stuff with a quick google search.
A good book on TCP/IP protocols is TCP/IP network admnistration by Craig Hunt (O`Reilly). I own a copy, what was good help. For C language, C A Reference Maunal by S. P. Harbison III and G. L. Steele Jr..
Hope this helps,

loke137

Well I did a google search but it's really hard to find QUALITY sites nowadays since the Internet grew too much. I've been working with Basic, Pascal, C++ (DOS/Win32), Win32ASM but as I've been doing mostly webprogramming the past 2 years and never worked with a real programming language like assembler for like 3 years I'm in need to refresh my whole knowledge.


I never did TCP/IP and database programming though (except once with Perl-DBI otherwise all the time using webbased interface and PHP).

A good book about MySQL or other databases would do good also I think.


If you have any valueable link, please post :-)

Here are a few I've used. These are all free online resources; some may also have printed versions available (at a cost).

Bruce Eckel's ebooks
This is a great resource, with quality ebooks on C++, Java and Python which can be read online or downloaded as PDFs. I recommend starting here for general programming ebooks.

Another Python ebook

A free Java course
Offered by Texas State Technical College (no instructor, just self-study)

An SQL tutorial

The Motherlode
Free tutorials for many languages

In the name of God
What is Win32ASM?
is it Windows Assembly?

It's Windows 32-Bit Assembly-programming. If you want to take a look at a quite extensive site about it go here

Thanks a lot for these. "Thinking in Java, 3rd Edition" looks very promising :-)

If anybody has some other URLs, etc please post :-)

You can find a lot of decent ebooks in the alt.binaries.e-book.technical newsgroup once in a while.

I didn't think newsgroups would contain books ...

GUI programming? In assembly?

Thats insane...

I don't think that GUI programming in assemble is insane. It's just PURE power and CLEAN code (as clean as you code it) ... you should take a look at the code c++ and other compilers produce for Win32.

Besides that you can learn quite a lot when doing assembly programming :-)

For programming basics my favorite books are

Practical C++ Programming an O'Reilly book.

I LOVE O'Reilly books. Anyone can follow them and they have good examples.

The C Programming Language 2nd edition by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie. This book saved me a bunch of times.

What's so insane about it?? Assembly programming gives you direct access to hardware devices, including screen buffers and such.

ASM gui programming means you hate yourself :-)

If you're really wanting to get into multi-platform gui programming, I suggest Java!

Get the newest Java compiler (SDK) ,
jEdit , and this tutorial.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned Patrick Henry Winston's On To... series:

On to Java
On to C
On to C++

These are _excellent_ books that are _very_ readable and allow you do do more of what you should be doing ... programming.

-Phil