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justjavac/free-programming-books-zh_CN
:books: 免费的计算机编程类中文书籍，欢迎投稿
A community-maintained index of free Chinese-language programming books and tutorials covering everything from OS fundamentals to specific frameworks. It's a reference list, not a learning platform — every entry is a link to an external resource. Primarily useful for Chinese-speaking developers who want to learn without a paywall.
Wide language coverage — C/C++, Go, Python, Rust, JavaScript, and more are all represented with multiple resources each. The :worried: marker system is honest about dead or unreachable links rather than silently keeping them. Community-maintained with hundreds of contributors, so it reflects what the Chinese dev community actually reads. Navigation is clean — a table of contents at the top links directly to each section.
Last substantive update was July 2024 and the repo shows signs of stagnation — many modern resources (post-2020) are missing. A significant fraction of links are marked :worried: (broken/inaccessible), and there's no automated link checking to catch new rot. No quality signal beyond star count — a mediocre tutorial and an excellent one look identical in the list. The README is the entire product: no search, no tagging by skill level, no way to filter beyond scrolling.