Posts tagged #pdf
pdf.js is a new JavaScript library by Marak Squires and Matthew Bergman that allows you to create simple PDF files directly in a client's Web browser or, if you choose, with the node.js server-side JavaScript implementation.
Browser-generated PDFs are served using data-based URIs, such as this one (hover over the link to see the long URL). A page has been set up where you can create some on the fly in your browser right now.
Foundations of Computer Science is a huge tome of an introduction to computer science covering data structures, logic, combinatorics, recursion, and more in its 700+ pages. Written by Al Aho and Jeff Ullman (already famous for 1986's "Dragon" Compilers book) in 1992, the book has now gone out of print, so they have the right to distribute it for free online.
When I say FoCS is an "introduction", however, I'm being liberal with the term. It's definitely a "serious" book and if you're not comfortable with reading academic material (and not everyone is), I think it might get too deep, too quickly, and with too few straightforward examples. Nonetheless, for free, it's now worth a try, whatever your level.