10 top IT skills for 2013

Recruiting firm CyberCoders has released new data about the skills most in demand for the highest paying technology jobs this year. The company analysed over 10,000 tech companies and their hiring requirements to compile the list of the hottest skills in the tech space.

Data from CyberCoders reveals that candidates who have experience with iOS development,cloud computing programming and front-end development skills are most in demand in today's tech career landscape.

The top 10 tech skills for 2013, as per CyberCoders are listed below:
Mobile development (iOS, Android)

1. Cloud computing (AWS, Azure)


2. Front end development (HTML5, CSS3, Javascript)


3. UX/UI design


4. Big Data (Hadoop, MongoDB, NoSQL)


5. C#


6. Ruby on rails


7. Java


8. PHP


9. Linux

"A common theme among these technology skills is the need for open source, mobile, cloud or big data technologies, like iOS, Azure and Hadoop," said Matt Miller, CTO of CyberCoders.

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Posted at Friday, May 10, 2013 |  by Rajat Khandelwal

Computer Programming Ebooks – Free and Legal Download

Check out the collection Free Ebook’s for Learning Programming Languages like C/C++,Java,Python,Lisp etc.These ebooks are absolutely Free and it is legal to Download and use.

Taking consideration of article length,I am limiting this list with only popular programming languages and for other programming languages like  R,Lua,Haskell and Version Control System’s will be updated in upcoming articles.

Programming Language basics

• 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know


• Algorithms and Data-Structures (PDF)


• Algorithms (draft)


• The Architecture of Open Source Applications


• The Art of Unix Programming


• Best Kept Secrets of Peer Code Review


• Binary Trees


• The Cathedral and the Bazaar


• Clever Algorithms


• Communicating Sequential Processes (PDF) – Tony Hoare


• Compiler Construction (PDF)


• Computer Musings (lectures by Donald Knuth)


• Computer Systems: A Programmer’s Perspective


• Data Structures and Algorithms: Annotated Reference with Examples


• Database Fundamentals (PDF)


• Data-Intensive Text Processing with MapReduce (PDF)


• The Definitive Guide to Building Code Quality


• Designing Interfaces by Jennifer Tidwell


• Digital Signal Processing For Engineers and Scientists


• Domain Driven Design Quickly


• Don’t Just Roll the Dice


• Essentials of Metaheuristics by Sean Luke


• Essential Skills for Agile Development


• A Field Guide To Genetic Programming


• Flow based Programming


• Foundations of Computer Science – Al Aho and Jeff Ullman


• Foundations of Programming


• Getting Real


• Getting started with Open source development (PDF)


• The Great Tree List Recursion Problem


• Guide to the Software Engineering Body of Knowledge


• How Computers Work


• How to Design Programs


• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist


• How to Write Parallel Programs


• How to write Unmaintainable Code


• I Am a Bug


• An Introduction to the Theory of Computation


• Introduction to Functional Programming (class lectures and slides)


• Introduction to Information Retrieval


• Is Parallel Programming Hard, And, If So, What Can You Do About It?


• Learn to Program


• Let’s Build a Compiler


• Linkers and loaders


• Linked List Basics


• Linked List Problems


• Mathematical Logic – an Introduction (PDF)


• Matters Computational


• Mining of Massive Datasets


• NASA Manager Handbook for Software Development (PDF)


• NASA Software Measurement Handbook


• Object-Oriented Reengineering Patterns


• Online Course Materials


• OO Design


• Operating Systems and Middleware (PDF and LaTeX)


• Patterns and Practices: Application Architecture Guide 2.0


• Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community (PDF)


• Planning Algorithms


• PNG: The Definitive Guide


• Pointers And Memory


• Producing Open Source Software


• Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation


• Programming Methodology


• Programming Pearls


• Project Oberon (PDF)


• Seamless Object-Oriented Software Architecture


• Security Engineering


• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs


• Summary of the GoF Design Patterns


• The Little Book of Semaphores


• The TCP/IP Guide


• Think Stats: Probability and Statistics for Programmers (PDF, code written in Python)


• Type Theory and Functional Programming


• Understanding IP Addressing: Everything you ever wanted to know (PDF)

Android – free Ebooks

• Building Android Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript


• Learning Android

C / C++ - free Ebooks

• Beej’s Guide to Network Programming


• The C book


• C++ Annotations


• C++ GUI Programming With Qt 3


• CS106X Programming Abstractions in C++


• Essential C


• Introduction to Design Patterns in C++ with Qt 4 (PDF)


• Learn C the hard way


• Matters Computational: Ideas, Algorithms, Source Code, by Jorg Arndt


• The new C standard – an annotated reference


• Object Oriented Programming in C (PDF)


• Software optimization resources by Agner Fog


• Thinking in C++, Second Edition


• Also see: The Definitive C++ Book Guide and List

ColdFusion - free Ebooks

• CFML In 100 Minutes

Delphi / Pascal - free Ebooks

• Essential Pascal Version 1 and 2


• The Tomes of Delphi

Django - free Ebooks

• Djangobook.com

You May Also like : The best free resources to Learn Python Programming Language and Python Frameworks

F# - free Ebooks

• The F# Survival Guide


• F Sharp Programming in Wikibooks


• Real World Functional Programming (MSDN Chapters)

HTML / CSS - free Ebooks

• Dive Into HTML5


• HTML Dog Tutorials

Java - free Ebooks

• Java Application Development on Linux by Carl Albing and Michael Schwarz(PDF)


• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist


• The Java EE6 Tutorial (PDF)


• Java Thin-Client Programming


• Sun’s Java Tutorials


• Thinking in Java


• OSGi in Practice (PDF)

JavaScript - free Ebooks

• Crockford’s JavaScript


• Eloquent JavaScript


• Essential Javascript & jQuery Design Patterns for Beginners


• JavaScript Essentials


• JavaScript: The Good Parts


• jQuery Fundamentals (starts with JavaScript basics)


• Mozilla Developer Network’s JavaScript Guide

JavaScript (Node.js specific) - free Ebooks

• Up and Running with Node


• The Node Beginner Book


• Mastering Node.js

Latex - free Ebooks

• The Not So Short Introduction to LATEX

Lisp - free Ebooks

• ANSI Common Lisp


• Common Lisp the Language, 2nd Edition


• Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation – David S. Touretzky


• Common Lisp Quick Reference


• Let Over Lambda – 50 Years of Lisp


• Natural Language Processing in Lisp


• On Lisp


• Practical Common Lisp


• Successful Lisp: How to Understand and Use Common Lisp – David Lamkins


• Sketchy LISP – Nils Holm

.NET (C# / VB / Nemerle / Visual Studio) - free Ebooks

• C# Essentials


• C# Programming – Wikibook


• C# Yellow Book (intro to programming)


• Charles Petzold’s .NET Book Zero


• Data Structures and Algorithms with Object-Oriented Design Patterns in C#


• Entity Framework


• Moving to Microsoft Visual Studio 2010


• Nemerle


• Programmer’s Heaven C# School Book (covers C# 1.0 and 2.0)


• Threading in C#


• Visual Basic Essentials


• Visual Studio Tips and Tricks (VS 2003-2005 only)

Objective-C - free Ebooks

• The Objective-C Programming Language


• Object-Oriented Programming with Objective-C

Oracle PL/SQL - free Ebooks

• PL/SQL Language Reference


• PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference


• Steven Feuerstein’s PL/SQL Obsession – Videos and Presentations

Perl - free Ebooks

• Beginning Perl


• Embedding Perl in HTML with Mason


• Essential Perl


• Extreme Perl


• Higher-Order Perl


• The Mason Book


• Modern Perl 5


• Perl & LWP


• Perl for the Web


• Perl Free Online EBooks (meta-list)


• Perl The Hard Way


• Practical mod_perl


• Web Client Programming with Perl

PHP - free Ebooks

• PHP Essentials


• Practical PHP Programming (wiki containing O’Reilly’s PHP In a Nutshell)


• Symfony2


• Zend Framework: Survive the Deep End

PostgreSQL - free Ebooks

• Practical PostgreSQL

Python - free Ebooks

Here is a Vast collection of Python books : The best free resources to Learn Python Programming Language and Python Frameworks

• Byte of Python


• Data Structures and Algorithms in Python


• Dive into Python


• Dive into Python 3


• The Django Book


• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python


• Invent Your Own Computer Games With Python


• Learn Python The Hard Way


• Natural Language Processing with Python


• Python Bibliotheca


• Python for Fun


• Snake Wrangling For Kids


• Think Python (PDF)


• Thinking in Python

Here is a Vast collection of Python books : The best free resources to Learn Python Programming Language and Python Frameworks

Ruby - free Ebooks

• Learn Ruby the hard way


• MacRuby: The Definitive Guide


• Mr. Neighborly’s Humble Little Ruby Book


• Programming Ruby


• Ruby Best Practices


• Why’s (Poignant) Guide to Ruby (mirror)


• Ruby on Rails Tutorial: Learn Rails By Example

SQL (implementation agnostic) - free Ebooks

• Developing Time-Oriented Database Applications in SQL


• Use The Index, Luke!: A Guide To SQL Database Performance


• Learn SQL The Hard Way

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Posted at Tuesday, May 07, 2013 |  by Rajat Khandelwal