Originally Posted by johnnyloadproductions

Safaribooksonline.com

I recently payed $200 for a year membership (black friday). Has O'Reilly media books, Packt Pub, Big Nerd Ranch. Books come out fast and that's why they have early and raw cut editions before the official editions come out.

Good old C programming books from the 80's will actually work but a book for a modern technology, if it's even just a few months out of date, it means a lot of the code may be broken.