About Robin Nixon & Get Into Coding
The Mission of Get Into Coding
Get Into Coding is a free, open-access educational library of thirteen complete, book-length programming guides spanning 285 chapters and over 438,000 words of original instruction, reference tables, and thousands of tested code examples.
Unlike brief blog posts or surface-level snippets, every title on Get Into Coding is written as a structured, start-to-finish textbook taking you from first principles and toolchain setup through advanced production practices, performance, testing, and architecture.
About the Author: Robin Nixon
Robin Nixon has worked with computers and software development for more than four decades and is the best-selling author of over 50 published books on programming, web development, operating systems, and digital technology.
His books have been published worldwide by leading technical publishers, translated into numerous languages, and adopted by university computer science courses and self-taught engineers alike. Selected published works include:
- O'Reilly Media: Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript (multiple editions, one of the world's best-selling full-stack web development books), Ubuntu: Up and Running, and HTML5 for iOS and Android.
- McGraw-Hill Education: Web Developer's Cookbook, Plug-In PHP, Plug-In JavaScript, and Plug-In CSS.
- BarCharts / QuickStudy: Author of numerous laminated programming and computing study guides used by students and professionals.
Robin began his career in the early 1980s programming microcomputers in assembly language, BASIC, and C, later running technical magazine publishing teams, building early internet applications, and developing modern AI-assisted software workflows.
All 13 Free Programming Books
Every book in the Get Into Coding library is available to read chapter by chapter right in your browser:
- Get Into C — Covering C programming, systems programming, pointers, memory management, and the C standard library.
- Get Into C++ — Covering modern C++ programming, RAII, templates, the Standard Template Library (STL), concurrency, and systems design.
- Get Into C# & .NET — Covering C# and .NET development, object-oriented programming, generics, LINQ, async/await, and enterprise applications.
- Get Into Coding — Covering foundational programming concepts, computational thinking, data structures, and coding algorithms.
- Get Into Design Patterns — Covering software architecture and Gang of Four (GoF) creational, structural, and behavioral design patterns.
- Get Into HTML & CSS — Covering semantic HTML5, modern CSS3, Flexbox, Grid, responsive web design, and web accessibility.
- Get Into Java — Covering Java programming, object-oriented design, collections, streams, concurrency, and the JVM ecosystem.
- Get Into JavaScript — Covering modern JavaScript (ES6+), DOM manipulation, event handling, asynchronous programming, and web APIs.
- Get Into PHP — Covering modern PHP 8+ server-side web development, databases, security, sessions, and APIs.
- Get Into Python — Covering Python 3 programming, data structures, object-oriented and functional patterns, testing, and automation.
- Get Into Rust — Covering Rust systems programming, ownership, borrowing, lifetimes, traits, fearless concurrency, and Cargo.
- Get Into SQL — Covering relational database design, SQL queries, joins, indexing, transactions, and query optimization.
- Get Into TypeScript & Node — Covering TypeScript static typing, Node.js runtime architecture, asynchronous I/O, REST APIs, and full-stack development.
AI-Enhanced Active Learning
Each chapter across all thirteen books includes built-in code copying and one-click AI modeling prompts, allowing you to step through variables, memory state, and program output alongside your preferred AI assistant while mastering the underlying fundamentals.