i want some websites for downloading free books for engineering and computer programs like java , c, c++ etc..

Answer 1

www.yui.ru/books
www.rapidshared.org/index.html
www.itebooks.com
Computer books and manuals
http://www.hoganbooks.com/freebook/webbooks.html | http://www.informit.com/itlibrary/ | http://www.fore.com/support/manuals/home/home.htm | http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/webbuy/freebooks.html
The Network Book http://www.cs.columbia.edu/netbook/
Some #bookwarez.efnet.irc links
http://www.extrema.net/books/links.shtml
Some #bookwarez.efnet.irc fiction
http://194.58.154.90:4431/enscifi/
Pimpas online books (Indonesia)
http://202.159.16.55/~pimpa2000 | http://202.159.15.46/~om-pimpa/buku
Security, privacy and cryptography
http://theory.lcs.mit.edu/~rivest/crypto-security.html | http://www.oberlin.edu/~brchkind/cyphernomicon/
My own misc online reading material
http://www.eastcoastfx.com/docs/admin-guides/ | http://www.eastcoastfx.com/~jorn/reading/
Computer books http://solaris.inorg.chem.msu.ru/cs-books/
| http://sweetrude.net/~cab/books/ | http://alaska.mine.nu/books/ | http://poprocks.dyn.ns.ca/dave/books/ | http://58-160.skarland.uaf.edu/books/ | http://202.186.247.194/~ebook/
| http://hooligans.org/reference/
Linux documentation http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html
FreeBSD documentation http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/
Sun documentation http://osiris.imw.tu-clausthal.de:8888/ | http://uran.vvsu.ru:8888/
SGI documentation
http://newton.unicc.chalmers.se/ebt-bin/nph-dweb/dynaweb;td=2 | http://techpubs.sgi.com/library/tpl/cgi-bin/init.cgi
IBM Online Redbooks http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/
Digital Unix documentation
http://www.unix.digital.com/faqs/publications/base_doc/DOCUMENTATION/V40D_HTML/V40D_HTML/LIBRARY.HTM
Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
http://www.pathname.com/fhs/2.0/fhs-toc.html | http://www.linuxbase.com/
UNIX stuff http://www.ucs.ed.ac.uk/~unixhelp/index.html | http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/usail/ | http://www.isu.edu/departments/comcom/unix/workshop/unixindex.html | http://www.franken.de/users/lorien/unix.html | http://www.cs.buffalo.edu/~milun/unix.programming.html
Programmers reading http://www.programmersheaven.com/ | http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/~alanf/se_proj97/
Programming Pearls 2nd edition
http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/pearls/
C stuff
http://www.strath.ac.uk/CC/Courses/NewCcourse/ccourse.html | http://www.cm.cf.ac.uk/Dave/C/CE.html | http://www.cprogramming.com/tutorial.html | http://www.cs.virginia.edu/c++programdesign/slides/ | http://www.icce.rug.nl/docs/cplusplus/cplusplus.html
Perl stuff http://www.webdesigns1.com/perl/ir.html | http://www.ictp.trieste.it/texi/perl/perl_toc.html | http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/ | http://www.plover.com/~mjd/perl/
Java stuff http://www.cs.brown.edu/courses/cs016/book/ | http://polaris.cis.ksu.edu/~schmidt/CIS200/ | http://www.daimi.au.dk/dProg1/java/langspec-1.0/index.html
Lisp stuff
http://www.cs.cmu.edu/afs/cs.cmu.edu/project/ai-repository/ai/html/cltl/mirrors.html
| http://www.cs.tulane.edu/www/Villamil/lisp/
Ada stuff http://www.adahome.com/Tutorials/
Database reading
http://www.bus.orst.edu/faculty/brownc/lectures/db_tutor/index.htm
SQL stuff http://w3.one.net/~jhoffman/sqltut.htm | http://www.doc.mmu.ac.uk/STAFF/E.Ferneley/SQL/index.htm | http://www.daimi.au.dk/~oracle/sql/index.html
Visual Basic stuff http://www.vb-world.net/books/
Handbook of Applied Cryptography
http://www.cacr.math.uwaterloo.ca/hac/
X Window System http://tronche.com/gui/x/ | http://www.cen.com/mw3/refs.html | http://www.gaijin.com/X/
GTK and Gnome stuff
http://developer.gnome.org/doc/GGAD/ggad.html
QT and KDE stuff http://www.troll.no/qt/ | http://developer.kde.org/documentation/tutorials/index.html | http://www.arrakis.es/~rlarrosa/tutorial.html
Corba stuff http://www.iona.com/hyplan/vinoski/
TCP/IP info http://www.tunix.kun.nl/ptr/tcpip.html
Misc programmers reading
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~chilimbi/Pubs.html | http://www.ic.arizona.edu/~nromano/spring99/readings.htm
Some useful tech articles http://www.sysadminmag.com/ | http://www.dotcomma.org/
Considering Hacking Constructive
http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue4_2/gisle/index.html
Eric's Random Writings http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/writings/
IBM's History
http://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/story/text.html
Electronic Publishing
http://www.civeng.carleton.ca/~nholtz/ElectronicPublishing.html
Digital processing http://www.dspguide.com/pdfbook.htm
The Hardware Book http://sunsite.auc.dk/hwb/
Network iQ Router Reference Manual
http://www.teltrend.co.nz/documentation/networkiq/rel74/html/rmtoc.htm
Cisco Product Documentation
http://www.cisco.com/univercd/cc/td/doc/product/
Novell developers appnotes
http://developer.novell.com/research/appnotes/
Icons for your desktop http://nether.tky.hut.fi/iconstore/
Hackers' Hall of Fame at Discovery Online
http://www.discovery.com/area/technology/hackers/hackers.html
Symbols and signs and ideograms and stuff http://www.symbols.com/
Dictionaries http://www.ohiolink.edu/db/oed.html | http://www.ohiolink.edu/db/ahd.html | http://www.ohiolink.edu/db/columbia.html | http://www.ohiolink.edu/db/thes.html | http://www.eb.com:180/
Misc reading material http://dali.orgland.ru/tcd/ | http://www.ud.se/english/press/pdf_publ.htm
Dantes Inferno
http://sophia.smith.edu/~lkleinbe/dante/home.html | http://www.divinecomedy.org/
Books and texts http://digital.library.upenn.edu/books/ | http://www.cs.cmu.edu/books.html | http://www.ipl.org/reading/books/ | http://www.nakedword.org/ | http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/alex/
Literature stuff http://lion.chadwyck.co.uk:8080/ | http://www.swan.ac.uk/uwp/lit.htm
Octavo books http://www.octavo.com/
Project Gutenberg - books and texts http://www.promo.net/pg/
Project Runeberg - Scandinavian in books and texts http://www.lysator.liu.se/runeberg/katalog.html
The Elements of Style http://www.bartleby.com/141/index.html
Bigtext - illustrated books and manuals for DOS http://www.ozemail.com.au/~kevsol/oldfav.html#bigtext
Breeze - a complete text system for Windows
http://www.ozemail.com.au/~kevsol/sware.html#brzwin
Language links http://www.june29.com/HLP/
Grimms' fairy tales
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/grimm/archive.html
Winnie the Pooh http://www.machaon.ru/pooh/
Seven Wonders of the World
http://ce.eng.usf.edu/pharos/wonders/
Medieval history http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook2.html
Misc history http://www.usaor.net/users/ipm/contents.html
| http://www.homeusers.prestel.co.uk/littleton/re0_cath.htm
Stonehenges Legends
http://www.missgien.net/stonehenge/legends.html
In Parentheses historical papers http://www.inpar.dhs.org/
Bulfinchs Mythology http://www.bulfinch.org/
The Dead Sea Scrolls
http://lcweb.loc.gov/exhibits/scrolls/toc.html
Qumran historical site http://www.kalia.org.il/Qumran/
Index of cults http://www.totentanz.de/kmedeke/cults.htm
Heretical speculation
http://www.calweb.com/~queribus/gnosticgnus.html
The esoteric Ordo Supremus Militaris Templi Hierosolymitani http://www.osmth.org/index.html
Runes and Norse stuff http://www.multiart.nu/grimner/ | http://www.eastcoastfx.com/~jorn/runes/
Extinction level events
http://members.xoom.com/korwisi/ele/english/index.html | http://impact.arc.nasa.gov/ | http://www.boulder.swri.edu/clark/ncar.html
Stephen Hawkings Universe
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/hawking/html/home.html
The constellations http://www.dibonsmith.com/constel.htm
Falling into a black hole
http://casasrv.colorado.edu/~ajsh/schw.shtml
Gravity is a push http://www.epicom.com/gravitypush/
Online audiobooks http://www.broadcast.com/books/scifi/
ElecBooks http://www.elecbook.com/eblist.htm
NewMedia Classics http://www.newmediaclassics.com/
Online Books Archive http://docs.online.bg/
Internet Public Library http://www.ipl.org/
Rocket-Library.com
http://www.rocket-library.com/categories.asp
PalmPilot E-Text Ring
http://www.webring.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=pilot_text&id=2&List
Virtual Free Books
http://www.virtualfreesites.com/free.books.am.html
All About Ebooks http://aalbc.com/ebooks/Allaboutebooks.htm

regards...

Karthik.S

Answer 2

You could try the public library. It is likely to have many programming books that are free.