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O'Rielly has a on-line bookshelf which for a monthly fee gives you access to every electronic copy of every book. Since you will probably change from generic CS study to some language or topic specific language every few months, this subscription would save you money and give you flexibility.
You might also sign up with Amazon for a Amazon Cloud account. As long as you stay under 5 gigs of total storage you can create a 1 gig hard drive and use the other 4 gigs to fire up a Linux virtual machine, a Windows machine, etc. The machine disappears when you log off - but this gives you access to Windows and Linux platforms to program on. (You can even fire up Oracle database images if you want to play with Oracle/SQL).
You should also d/l a copy of "Eclipse" - a free IDE for many languages.
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