Fanatical Is Giving Away These Programming Books for Free
This year, International Coders Day falls on September 13th, and online video game retailer Fanatical wants to provide you with free eBooks on programming and game development . Here’s what you get and how to get them.
Learn programming and game development
The deal runs until midnight on September 23 and the bundle includes four eBooks and a voucher for 20% off other eBook bundles available on the website. Here are the eBooks you can get:
- Mathematics for Game Programming and Computer Graphics ( regularly $29.99 at Amazon)
- Game Development with Blender and Godot 9 ( regularly $33.99 at Amazon)
- Functional Programming in Go ( regularly $19.79 at Amazon)
- Essentials for Self-Taught Programmers ( regularly $23.99 at Amazon)
The first two are recently published e-books that teach programming for game development; Functional Programming in Go teaches concepts of programming techniques that you can apply in Go; and Basics for Self-Taught Programmers introduces software development and writing your first program.
The e-books are available in EPUB, PDF or MIXED formats and are yours to keep once downloaded.
You need an account to qualify for free eBooks
Getting eBooks is easy: just create an account with Fanatical (it’s free) or log in if you already have one. Add eBooks to your cart and check them out as if you were purchasing them. There are no catches, no minimum spend, no rewards program, or short eBook samples. Just a nice freebie from Fanatical to celebrate the 256th day of the year, which is the number of different values in a byte.