New Humble Bundle is up, and it's for:
Humble Book Bundle The Joy of Coding presented by No Starch Press chock full of self-educational books on Exactly What It Says In The Title.
Fixed tiers of $1, $8, and $15 (no new books added next week), covering a range of languages as common as JavaScript and as obscure as Erlang. Also some general coding books on best practices and such, and a fun-looking humour book on what if famous authors wrote JavaScript programs.
This is an auto-buy for me, not solely because I've been trying to teach myself to program and No Starch has high-quality instructional stuff for beginners (I've always liked their Manga Guides translations of the Japanese educational comics), but also because I specifically have been trying to learn Racket (I use a spin-off dialect of it to generate the freebie posts).
Quote:
A bundle of joy. For programmers who love what they do, diving into a new language is an exciting and rewarding challenge. Whether you’re looking to add some new skills to your resume or just searching for fun weekend projects, the Joy of Coding bundle is full of possibility. Explore the power and versatility of Python, Lisp, Haskell, Erlang, Clojure, and more with this collection of best-selling programming books.
Pay $1 or more for Automate the Boring Stuff with Python, The Linux Command Line, Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!, Learn You Some Erlang for Great Good!, and The Book of F#.
Pay $8 or more and you’ll also receive Eloquent JavaScript, 2nd Edition; The Principles of Object-Oriented JavaScript; Land of Lisp; Realm of Racket; If Hemingway Wrote JavaScript; and Write Great Code, Volume 1.
Pay $15 or more to receive all of that plus Python Playground, Think Like a Programmer, The Art of R Programming, Clojure for the Brave and True, and Write Great Code, Volume 2.
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Last week's
Humble Comics Bundle Dark Horse 30th Anniversary has added a bunch of omnibuses to the middle tier (including some Vol. 2s for the Vol. 1s offered in the $1 tier), and Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Season 10 volume, should you happen to be a fan.
Bundle of Holding has four new RPG gamebook bundles:
Osprey Wargames featuring stuff from the popular military history publisher who also have a sideline in gaming. These cover a wide range of real-life historical scenarios, some with added fantastic elements, and are meant to be used with their miniature models. To accompany it, there's a secondary bundle of
Fat Dragon Terrain Sets which are printable PDFs for you to cut and assemble into scenery for your miniatures. They actually look pretty cool, even if there don't seem to be any actual fat dragon miniatures involved in the gameplay.
And there's also the
Shadowrun 3E Essentials and
SR3 Sprawl Guide bundles for the 3rd edition of the popular fantasy steampunk game.
Just a reminder that StoryBundle's
Starward Bound Bundle of space opera has another week to go, and contains a few offerings by Nebula & Hugo Award-winners and nominees. They've also a new
Weird Western bundle which is primarily indie, but contains some hybrid sfnal wild western offerings by backlist authors like Judith Tarr, and frontlist titles from Chizine Publications, and there's a freebie for newsletter subscribers; please
see the dedicated thread for linkage and more details.