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Computer programming -- Moral and ethical aspects

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• Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking (Princeton: Princeton University Press, c2013), by E. Gabriella Coleman (PDF with commentary at codingfreedom.com and gabriellacoleman.org)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Elements of Programming (authors' edition; 2019), by Alexander A. Stepanov and Paul McJones (PDF files with commentary at elementsofprogramming.com)
• Scientific Programming and Computer Architecture (Cambridge, MA and London: MIT Press, c2017), by Divakar Viswanath (illustrated HTML at github.io)
• Programming and Programming Languages (2016), by Shriram Krishnamurthi (HTML at Brown)
• How to Design Programs (second edition, c2014), by Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt, and Shriram Krishnamurthi (HTML at neu.edu)
• Think Python: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist (version 2, 2014), by Allen Downey (multiple formats at Green Tea Press)
• Learn to Program Using Python (c2011), by Cody Jackson (PDF in Sweden)
• 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know (wiki version, ca. 2010), ed. by Kevlin Henney (HTML at oreilly.com)
• How to Design Programs: An Introduction to Programming and Computing (electronic version, 2002), by Matthias Felleisen, Robert Bruce Findler, Matthew Flatt, and Shriram Krishnamurthi (illustrated HTML with commentary at htdp.org)
• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist; Learning With Python (original edition (superseded by Think Python); c2002), by Allen Downey, Chris Meyers, and Jeffrey Elkner (multiple formats at Green Tea Press)
• Partial Evaluation and Automatic Program Generation (c1999), by Neil D. Jones, Carsten K. Gomard, and Peter Sestoft (PDF and Postscript with commentary in Denmark)
• Computer Science Logo Style (second edition, 3 volumes; c1997), by Brian Harvey
  • Volume 1 (Symbolic Computing): illustrated HTML and PDF at Berkeley
  • Volume 2 (Advanced Techniques): illustrated HTML and PDF at Berkeley
  • Volume 3 (Beyond Programming): illustrated HTML and PDF at Berkeley
• Paradigms of Artificial Intelligence Programming: Case Studies in Common Lisp (c1992), by Peter Norvig (multiple formats with commentary at Github)
• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python (second edition, 2020), by Al Sweigart (illustrated HTML with commentary at automatetheboringstuff.com)
• Programming in Martin-Löf's Type Theory: An Introduction (c1990), by Bengt Nordström, Kent Petersson, and Jan M. Smith (PDF and Postscript in Sweden)
• How to Code in Python 3 (New York: DigitalOcean, ca. 2018), by Lisa Tagliaferri (PDF at digitalocean.com)
• Think Julia: How to Think Like a Computer Scientist (online edition, c2018), by Ben Lauwens and Allen Downey (HTML with commentary at githun.io)
• The Coder's Apprentice: Learning Programming with Python 3 (2017), by Pieter Spronck (PDF with commentary at spronck.net)
• A Little Smalltalk (c1987), by Timothy Budd (PDF at unibe.ch)
• Python 101 (c2017), by Michael Driscoll (illustrated HTML with commentary at pythonlibrary.org)
• Learning J: An Introduction to the J Programming Language (revised 2015), by Roger Stokes (HTML at jsoftware.com)
• The Nature of Code (c2012), by Daniel Shiffman, ed. by Shannon Fry, illust. by Zannah Marsh (illustrated HTML with commentary at natureofcode.com)
• The Craft of Programming (Englewood Cliffs, NJ, et al.: Prentice-Hall International, c1981), by John C. Reynolds (PDF at CMU)
• Matters Computational: Ideas, Algorithms, Source Code (prepublication version, 2011), by Jörg Arndt (PDF and other formats at jjj.de)
• Introduction to Computer Science using Java (2018), by Bradley Kjell (illustrated HTML at programmedlessons.org)
• COBOL: A Self-Instructional Manual (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, c1963), by James A. Saxon (page images at HathiTrust)
• Communicating Sequential Processes, by C. A. R. Hoare (PDF with commentary at usingcsp.com)
• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: C++ Version, by Allen Downey (multiple formats at Green Tea Press)
• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Think Java, by Allen Downey (multiple formats at Green Tea Press)
• Larch: Languages and Tools for Formal Specification, ed. by John V. Guttag and James J. Horning (Postscript at MIT)
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (second edition, 1996, with supporting materials), by Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, and Julie Sussman, contrib. by Alan J. Perlis (HTML at MIT Press)
• Watch What I Do: Programming by Demonstration, ed. by Allen Cypher (illustrated HTML at acypher.com)
• Certified Programming with Dependent Types (latest electronic edition), by Adam Chlipala (PDF and HTML with commentary at chlipala.net)
• Études for Elixir, ed. by J. David Eisenberg (HTML and other files at Github)
• Programming From the Ground Up, by Jonathan Bartlett, ed. by Dominick Bruno
  • version 1.0: PDF at gnu.org
  • multiple versions with commentary at nongnu.org
• Scala Book (free online edition), by Alvin Alexander (multiple formats with commentary at alvinalexander.com)

• Software Engineering Techniques: Report of a Conference Sponsored by the NATO Science Committee, Rome, Italy, 27th to 31st October 1969 (originally published 1970), ed. by J. N. Buxton and Brian Randell (PDF in the UK)
• Software Engineering: Report of a Conference Sponsored by the NATO Science Committee, Garmisch, Germany, 7th to 11th October 1968 (originally published 1969), ed. by Peter Naur and Brian Randell (PDF in the UK)

• The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier, by Bruce Sterling (Gutenberg text)

• An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp (third edition, revised, c2015), by Robert J. Chassell (multiple formats at gnu.org)
• The Busy Coder's Guide to Android Development (older editions, mostly published in or before 2014), by Mark L. Murphy (PDF files with commentary at commonsware.com)
• The Little Book on CoffeeScript (prepublication version), by Alex MacCaw, contrib. by David Griffiths, Satoshi Murakami, and Jeremy Ashkenas (HTML at gihub.io)

• Scratch 3 Programming Playground, by Al Sweigart (illustrated HTML with commentary at inventwithscratch.com)

• Category Theory for Programmers (free online edition), by Bartosz Milewski, ed. by Igal Tabacnik (illustrated HTML and PDF with commentary at bartoszmilewski.com and Github)

• Live Coding: A User's Manual (Cambrige, MA and London: MIT Press, c2022), by Alan F. Blackwell, Emma Cocker, Geoff Cox, Alex McLean, and Thor Magnusson (multiple formats with commentary at toplap.org)

• Coding Freedom: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Hacking (Princeton: Princeton University Press, c2013), by E. Gabriella Coleman (PDF with commentary at codingfreedom.com and gabriellacoleman.org)

• Teaching Tech Together: How to Create and Deliver Lessons That Work and Build a Teaching Community Around Them (free online editions in English and Spanish; c2019), by Greg Wilson (illustrated HTML with commentary at teachtogether.tech)

• A Quick and Gentle Guide to Constraint Logic Programming via ECLiPSe (third edition, 2014), by Antoni Niederliński (PDF with commentary in Poland)

• Type Theory and Functional Programming (c1999), by Simon Thompson (PDF and Postscript with commentary in the UK)
• Clojure Cookbook (open source Github version; originally published 2014), by Luke VanderHart and Ryan Neufeld (HTML with commentary at Github)
• Higher-Order Perl (2005), by Mark Jason Dominus (PDF with commentary at plover.com)
• An Architecture for Combinator Graph Reduction, by Philip Koopman (PDF files with commentary at CMU)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.