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The free-programming-books repo on GitHub grew significantly in 2020. As of January 12, 2021, it has 170,459 stars, fourth most of all repos on Github and up 26% from last year. The repo has been forked almost 40,000 times, and it added another 900 commits from 448 individuals in 2020. 1,584 people in total have supported the project with improvements.
Free-Programming-Books now contains 3,770 links to free books, 1,254 free courses, and 822 other resources. There are lists of books in 35 spoken languages and courses in 20 of them. The list covers over 200 programming languages and platforms.
Hacktoberfest was an unexpected surprise for us this year. We received 1,314 @Hacktoberfest PRs and merged 559 (39%) of them (merges from 304 individuals)! We had several volunteers who stepped up to help with the flood of submissions. We created a cheatsheet page, added several course pages, several translated "ABOUT" and "CONTRIBUTING" pages. We saw major expansions of our lists for Indonesian, Hindi, Tamil, and Portuguese readers. Perhaps most important was a chance to welcome so many whose contributions were their first ever to an open source project. You are our future!
With the growth in the lists come new challenges. We moved lists into subdirectories so that our README can be seen in the repo view without a lot of scrolling. Our English language book page is becoming unwieldy and we are discussing ways to make it more useable. The automation that helps us deal with the volume is being moved onto GitHub Actions.
On behalf of the free-programming-books users around the world, I'd like to once again thank every author, programmer or educator who has allowed their works to be free for all to use. Together we can bring the world closer together with knowledge and opportunity.
@eshellman for the Free Ebook Foundation.
Thanks to our PR contributors this year:
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