• Author: Brian Gough
• Format: online HTML
• Price: free

This manual provides an introduction to the GNU C and C++ Compilers, gcc and g++, which are part of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC).

Chapters include:

• Introduction
• Compiling a C program
• Compilation options
• Using the preprocessor
• Compiling for debugging
• Compiling with optimization
• 7 Compiling a C++ program
• Platform-specific options
• Troubleshooting
• Compiler-related tools
• How the compiler works
• Examining compiled files
• Common error messages
• Getting help

http://www.network-theory.co.uk/docs/gccintro/

• Author: Eric Nelson and 15 authors smarter than him
• Format: PDF
• Price: free (print edition: $5.75)

Developers have been exploring the possibilities opened up by the Windows Azure Platform for Cloud Computing. This book pulls together great articles from many of those developers who have been active with the Windows Azure Platform to hopefully help others become successful. There are twenty articles in this first volume covering everything from getting started to implementing best practices for elastic applications.

Chapters include:

• 5 steps to getting started with Windows Azure
• The best tools for working with the Windows Azure Platform
• Architecting For Azure – Building Highly Scalable Applications
• The Windows Azure Platform and Cost-Oriented Architecture
• De-risking Your First Windows Azure Project
• Trials & tribulations of working with Azure when there’s more than one of you
• Using a Continuous Integration build to achieve an automated deployment of your latest build
• Using Java with the Windows Azure Platform
• Auto-Scaling Windows Azure Compute Instances
• Building a Content-Based Router Service on Windows Azure
• Bing Maps Tile Servers using Azure Blob Storage
• Azure Drive
• Azure Table Service as a NoSQL database
• Queries and Azure Tables
• Tricks for storing time and date fields in Table Storage
• Logging, diagnostics and health monitoring of Windows Azure Applications
• Service Runtime in Windows Azure
• Connecting to SQL Azure in 5 Minutes
• Real Time Tracing of Azure Roles from Your Desktop

http://geekswithblogs.net/iupdateable/…trenches-volume-1.aspx

• Author: Jeffrey Elkner, Allen B. Downey, Chris Meyers, Brendan McCane, Iain Hewson, and Nick Meek
• Format: PDF
• Price: free

This is an open source introductory textbook to learn practical programming skills in the Python language. The textbook is meant as a first programming course and is tightly aligned with the University of Otago introductory programming course called Practical Programming.

This textbook is a modified version of "How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python 2nd Edition", by Jeffrey Elkner, Allen B. Downey and Chris Meyers

Chapters include:

• The way of the program
• Variables, expressions and statements
• Python built-ins (batteries included)
• Functions: part 1
• Functions: part 2
• Conditionals
• Fruitful functions
• Test driven development
• Strings part 1
• Files and modules
• Iteration: part 1
• Iteration: part 2
• Strings part 2
• Lists part 1
• Lists part 2
• Classes and objects
• Graphical user interface programming
• Case study: Catch
• Case study: Catch continued
• Dictionaries
• Tuples
• System programming
• Case study 2
• The last lecture

https://launchpad.net/practical-programming

• Author: Bryan O’Sullivan
• Format: online HTML
• Price: free ($39.99 for paperback version)

This instructive book takes you step by step through ways to track, merge, and manage both open source and commercial software projects with Mercurial, using Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Solaris, and other systems. Mercurial is the easiest system to learn when it comes to distributed revision control, ideal whether you’re a lone programmer working on a small project, or part of a huge team dealing with thousands of files. This book offers concrete suggestions to get you started.

Chapters include:

• How did we get here?
• A tour of Mercurial: the basics
• A tour of Mercurial: merging work
• Behind the scenes
• Mercurial in daily use
• Collaborating with other people
• File names and pattern matching
• Managing releases and branchy development
• Finding and fixing mistakes
• Handling repository events with hooks
• Customizing the output of Mercurial
• Managing change with Mercurial Queues
• Advanced uses of Mercurial Queues
• Adding functionality with extensions
• Migrating to Mercurial
• Mercurial Queues reference
• Installing Mercurial from source

http://hgbook.red-bean.com/read/

• Author: Scott Chacon
• Format: online HTML,
• Price: free

Git is the version control system developed by Linus Torvalds for Linux kernel development. It took the open source world by storm since its inception in 2005, and is used by small development shops and giants like Google, Red Hat, and IBM, and of course many open source projects.

This book is for all open source developers: you are bound to encounter it somewhere in the course of your working life. Proprietary software developers will appreciate Git’s enormous scalability, since it is used for the Linux project, which comprises thousands of developers and testers.

Chapters include:

• About Version Control
• A Short History of Git
• Git Basics
• Installing Git
• First-Time Git Setup
• Getting Help
• Getting a Git Repository
• Recording Changes to the Repository
• Viewing the Commit History
• Undoing Things
• Working with Remotes
• Tagging
• Tips and Tricks
• What a Branch Is
• Basic Branching and Merging
• Branch Management
• Branching Workflows
• Remote Branches
• Rebasing
• The Protocols
• Getting Git on a Server
• Generating Your SSH Public Key
• Setting Up the Server
• Public Access
• GitWeb
• Gitosis
• Gitolite
• Git Daemon
• Hosted Git
• Distributed Workflows
• Contributing to a Project
• Maintaining a Project
• Revision Selection
• Interactive Staging
• Stashing
• Rewriting History
• Debugging with Git
• Submodules
• Subtree Merging
• Git Configuration
• Git Attributes
• Git Hooks
• An Example Git-Enforced Policy
• Git and Subversion
• Migrating to Git
• Plumbing and Porcelain
• Git Objects
• Git References
• Packfiles
• The Refspec
• Transfer Protocols
• Maintenance and Data Recovery

http://progit.org/book/