Cambridge University Press make their books free until May

Re:Cambridge University Press make their books free until May by asicsp on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @03:05AM (#22614322)

I was thinking on similar lines yesterday and today made the decision of making all my ebooks free for the foreseeable future. I made bundles [0][1] so that they can all be downloaded in one shot. There are five books - three of them on regex (Ruby, Python, JavaScript) and two on cli tools (GNU grep and ripgrep, GNU sed).

Currently working on GNU awk, which will take another month if I want to include everything I had planned. Now, I'm thinking of releasing as drafts and see how it goes.

I plan to release book markdown source as well in coming days. Already done for Ruby [2]

[0] https://leanpub.com/b/regex

[1] https://gumroad.com/l/regex

[2] https://github.com/learnbyexample/Ruby_Regexp

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Re:Cambridge University Press make their books free until May by supdatecron on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @10:16AM (#22616871)

This is really cool Sundeep, thanks for doing this! Question for you: what did you use to draw the diagrams for the "Javascript Regex" book, such as on the cover? Thanks!

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Re:Cambridge University Press make their books free until May by asicsp on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @11:05AM (#22617424)

That is known as railroad diagrams and provided by sites such as regulex[0] (which I used for js cover) and debuggex [1]. I've also mentioned it in acknowledgements within the book.

[0] https://jex.im/regulex

[1] https://www.debuggex.com/

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Re:Cambridge University Press make their books free until May by wantacker on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @06:37AM (#22615197)

I'm currently learning some Data Science with Python (and text-wrangling via the CLI) and RegEx is something I got by without, up until now. So thank you so much!

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Re:Cambridge University Press make their books free until May by asicsp on Wednesday March 18, 2020 @07:15AM (#22615351)

Cool! If you need more resources for cli/python, I've some links collated:

https://github.com/learnbyexample/scripting_course/blob/mast...

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