// the take
A link index to 1000+ computer science books (C/C++, Java, Python, Go, algorithms, OS, networking, databases, frontend, ML, assembly) plus the author's own interview-prep notes, aimed at the Chinese-speaking dev/student community prepping for technical interviews. It's a reading list with download links, not a codebase or tool.
Genuinely broad and well-organized by topic with anchor links, so Ctrl+F actually gets you to the right section fast across 20+ categories. Actively maintained — pushes as recent as Nov 2025, with the author steadily adding new categories and book counts rather than letting it go stale. Mirrored on Gitee and GitCode specifically because GitHub is slow from mainland China, which matters for the audience this is built for.
The author states outright that most books were pulled from a piracy site (kanshuy1234.com) — using or redistributing this puts you on the wrong side of copyright, which is a real risk if you're anything beyond a casual personal reader. Every link is a Baidu Netdisk share link with an extraction code; these expire or get killed by Baidu with no warning and no mirror or checksum, so a meaningful fraction of the '1000+' books are likely already dead ends. There's no code, API, or tool to evaluate here — it's a markdown list, so the star count reflects demand for free textbooks, not engineering quality, and there's nothing to build on or integrate. It's one person updating links by hand in their spare time, with missing-book requests routed through personal WeChat — that doesn't scale and there's no way to verify link health in bulk.
We read the README, the directory tree and a key source file in October 2026. Nobody pays to be listed. How we judge →