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manjunath5496/Computer-Science-Reference-Books
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." ― Edsger W. Dijkstra
A flat dump of ~450 PDFs covering CS textbooks, DevOps guides, language references, and algorithm books — all committed directly to a GitHub repo. It's a piracy archive dressed up as a resource list, not a project.
The book selection is reasonable: CLRS, SICP, CLR via C#, The Linux Programming Interface, Hacker's Delight, and Windows Internals are genuinely useful references. The range across systems programming, databases, algorithms, and DevOps means there's something for most developers. It's easy to grep the README HTML for a title and grab the file immediately without signing up anywhere.
Almost every PDF here is a copyrighted commercial book distributed without permission — this repo exists in a legal grey zone and GitHub has removed similar repos before, so don't build a reading list around it. There is no organization beyond a flat numbered sequence, so finding anything requires reading through raw HTML. No search, no categories, no descriptions — just comp(1).pdf through comp(458).pdf. Last updated April 2024, so anything published in the last couple of years is absent.