Free, open-license university textbooks and reference books for BS degree programs taught at universities across Pakistan. This section follows the HEC curriculum and currently focuses on Computer Science — with subjects such as Programming, Data Structures, Database Systems and Operating Systems — with more disciplines being added.All books here are shared for educational purposes under free or open licenses, so BS students can access core course material without cost. Where a book is available only from its official source, we link directly to the publisher.
Read Interpretable Machine Learning by Christoph Molnar (3rd Edition, 2025) free online – the standard reference for explaining black-box ML models with LIME, SHAP, Shapley values, PDP, ALE and more.
Free official HTML edition of Claus O. Wilke’s Fundamentals of Data Visualization (O’Reilly, 2019): 30 chapters on choosing and designing honest, compelling figures.
Read Michael Nielsen’s free online book Neural Networks and Deep Learning – backpropagation, regularization and convolutional networks explained and derived from scratch, chapter by chapter.
Free online book: Bayesian Methods for Hackers by Cameron Davidson-Pilon. Learn Bayesian inference, MCMC and PyMC through worked examples for BSCS/BS Stats.
Read the complete Deep Learning textbook by Goodfellow, Bengio and Courville free online. MIT Press, 2016 — 20 chapters in three parts, for BSCS Deep Learning electives.
Free Dive into Deep Learning (D2L) PDF and interactive HTML edition by Aston Zhang, Zachary C. Lipton, Mu Li and Alexander J. Smola for BSCS Deep Learning courses.
Download Speech and Language Processing (3rd ed. draft) by Jurafsky & Martin free from Stanford. NLP, LLMs and transformers for BSCS students.
Download Database Design, 2nd Edition by Adrienne Watt and Nelson Eng free PDF or read online. A BCcampus open textbook covering ER modelling, normalization, functional dependencies and SQL for BSCS/BSIT Database Systems courses.
Read the free official HTML and PDF edition of Introduction to Information Retrieval by Manning, Raghavan and Schütze, covering Boolean retrieval through web search, link analysis and text classification.
Download Programming Fundamentals: A Modular Structured Approach using C++ by Kenneth Leroy Busbee — free open textbook for BSCS/BSIT students, official link, chapter guide and study notes.
Free HTML/PDF guide to Unix sockets programming in C by Brian “Beej Jorgensen” Hall — TCP/UDP, IPv4/IPv6, and complete runnable client-server code, licensed CC BY-NC-ND 3.0.
Free official PDF of The Linux Command Line by William Shotts — 36 chapters covering the shell, permissions, processes, text tools, and a full bash scripting course.