Web books

Full-length web-first textbooks
- Linear Algebra by Jim Hefferon
- Neural Networks and Deep Learning
- Programming Language Foundations in Agda
- Introduction to Modern Statistics
- Crafting Interpreters
- Game Programming Patterns
- The Nature of Code
- Eloquent JavaScript
- Fundamentals of Data Visualization
- R for Data Science (CC-BY-BC-ND)
- Exploring JS: JavaScript books for programmers
- Learn to Program the World’s Most Bodacious Language with Clojure for the Brave and True
- Chess Tactics Explained in English: Ward Farnsworth’s Predator at the Chessboard
- The Book of Shaders
- Software Foundations
- Dive into Deep Learning — Dive into Deep Learning 0.16.2 documentation
- HyperPhysics Concepts amazing hypertext physics book
- Core Econ (CC-BY-BC-ND)
- Physically Based Rendering: From Theory to Implementation (CC-BY-NC-ND)
Published books republished online
Shorter guides
- Circles Sines and Signals - Introduction
- Butterick’s Practical Typography
- In the Cells of the Eggplant | Meta-rationality (work in progress)
- Resilient Web Design
- Holloway guides
- Shape Up: Stop Running in Circles and Ship Work that Matters
- World After Capital
- Quantum Country
- How to Make Sense of Any Mess
- color vision
- Learn TLA+
- Atomic Design by Brad Frost
- Starting & Sustaining (on running SaaS applications)
- Learning Synths (Ableton)
- Immersive Linear Algebra
- How software is eating the world
- Introduction to Computer Graphics
More lists
- I asked on Twitter for best online textbooks
- e-texts from Max Krieger

References

https://twitter.com/andy_matuschak/status/1246937718283624449

There are surprisingly few serious “web books”! I don’t even mean “fancy new media books”—just: written primarily for and read primarily on the web.