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		<title>An Introduction to GCC</title>
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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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://appsapps.com/ebooks/?p=240</link>
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		<title>Windows Azure Platform: Articles from the Trenches Volume 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://appsapps.com/ebooks/?p=239</link>
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		<title>Practical Programming in Python</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://appsapps.com/ebooks/?p=238</link>
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		<title>Mercurial: The Definitive Guide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Author: Bryan O&#8217;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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://appsapps.com/ebooks/?p=234</link>
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		<title>Pro Git</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
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 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://appsapps.com/ebooks/?p=233</link>
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		<title>Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Author: Al Sweigart 
Format: PDF, online HTML 
Price: free ($25 for paperback version) 

Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python is a free book that teaches you how to program in the Python programming language. Each chapter gives you the complete source code for a new game, and then teaches the programming concepts from the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://appsapps.com/ebooks/?p=232</link>
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		<title>CouchDB: The Definitive Guide</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Author: J. Chris Anderson, Jan Lehnardt, and Noah Slater
Format: online HTML
Price: free 

The book is designed to guide you gently through using CouchDB with clear but practical scenarios. It progressively showcases key features, starting with simple document CRUD, working through to advanced MapReduce, and culminating with deployment tuning for performance and reliability. 
Chapters include: 

Why [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://appsapps.com/ebooks/?p=230</link>
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		<title>The Objective-C Programming Language</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Author: Apple Inc 
Format: online html, PDF 
Price: free 

The Objective-C language is a simple computer language designed to enable sophisticated object-oriented programming. Objective-C is defined as a small but powerful set of extensions to the standard ANSI C language. Its additions to C are mostly based on Smalltalk, one of the first object-oriented programming [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://appsapps.com/ebooks/?p=229</link>
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		<title>Multithreading &#8211; The Delphi Way</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Author: Martin Harvey
Format: online HTML
Price: free 

This guide is intended for anyone who is interested in improving performance and responsiveness in their Delphi applications by using threads. It covers a range of topics from absolute beginner to intermediate level, and some of the real world examples raise issues bordering on the advanced. It assumes that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://appsapps.com/ebooks/?p=228</link>
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		<title>Introduction to Databases for the Web</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Author: Selena Sol
Format: online HTML
Price: free 

This is a free four part course, suitable for webmasters and web developers with little or no database experience. The goal of this tutorial is to introduce database concepts and give you the tools you need to get to work using the databases available to you. The first part [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://appsapps.com/ebooks/?p=227</link>
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		<title>Introduction to Perl 5</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Author: Selena Sol
Format: online HTML
Price: free 

Suitable for those who already have some familiarity with Perl 4, this tutorial highlights the new features of Perl 5: A new data type: the reference; A new localization tool: the my keyword; Tools to allow object oriented programming in Perl; An object oriented based library system focussed around [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://appsapps.com/ebooks/?p=226</link>
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		<title>Introduction to XML for Web Developers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Author: Selena Sol
Format: online HTML
Price: free 

In this tutorial, Selena Sol walks you through XML and the sister XSL style sheet language. Using simple, well-explained examples, Sol shows you how to get up to speed with the syntax of XML. 
Chapters include:

What is a Markup Language
What is XML
Advantages of XML: Breaking the Tag Monopoly
Advantages of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://appsapps.com/ebooks/?p=225</link>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Just Roll The Dice: A usefully short guide to software pricing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Author: Neil Davidson 
Format: PDF 
Price: free 

How do you determine the price for your software? Is it art, science or magic? 
From the co-founder and joint CEO of Red Gate Software, comes this useful short book that will help you get the theory, practical advice and case studies needed to stop you from reaching [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://appsapps.com/ebooks/?p=222</link>
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		<title>VB for Very Bright Kids</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Author: Microsoft 
Format: online HTML, msi installer for offline reading 
Price: free 

Writing programs is Fun! This e-book will have you coding your very own Visual Basic programs in no time! With fun cartoons and easy to follow code samples, you&#8217;ll be creating your own inventions in no time!
Requires Visual Basic Express Edition (available for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://appsapps.com/ebooks/?p=220</link>
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		<title>Introduction to ASP .NET</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Author: Microsoft 
Format: Lesson Package (includes PowerPoint Slide Decks, demonstration code, and videos) 
Price: free 

Merlin the Microsoft agent will guide you through this 7-chapter introduction to ASP .NET which starts with the fundamentals and works your way through to creating full dynamic website samples. 
Required software (free): 

Visual Web Developer Express Edition 
SQL Server [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://appsapps.com/ebooks/?p=218</link>
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