--- title: GitHub - alxndrTL/little-book-rl: The Little Book of... description: A free introductory book on Reinforcement Learning covering fundamentals through applied algorithms like PPO. The accompanying GitHub repository includes... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/github---alxndrtl-little-book-rl-the-little-book-of-reinforcement-learning-wwoibwros twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: GitHub - alxndrTL/little-book-rl: The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning | daily.dev og:description: A free introductory book on Reinforcement Learning covering fundamentals through applied algorithms like PPO. The accompanying GitHub repository includes... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/github---alxndrtl-little-book-rl-the-little-book-of-reinforcement-learning-wwoibwros og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/WwOibwROS.png og:image:alt: GitHub - alxndrTL/little-book-rl: The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # GitHub - alxndrTL/little-book-rl: The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning **[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 1 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A free introductory book on Reinforcement Learning covering fundamentals through applied algorithms like PPO. The accompanying GitHub repository includes PyTorch implementations of algorithms ranging from Monte Carlo methods to PPO, plus supplementary material with rigorous proofs for dynamic programming algorithms. The book is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 non-commercial license and can also be purchased in print. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The Reinforcement Learning Handbook: A Guide to Foundational Questions](https://daily.dev/posts/the-reinforcement-learning-handbook-a-guide-to-foundational-questions-0vv0xujq8) · Towards Data Science · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Reinforcement Learning Nanodegree](https://daily.dev/posts/reinforcement-learning-nanodegree-xkt8kuetu) · Daily Dose of Data Science \| Avi Chawla \| Substack · 1 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#machine-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/machine-learning), [#python](https://daily.dev/tags/python), [#pytorch](https://daily.dev/tags/pytorch), [#reinforcement-learning](https://daily.dev/tags/reinforcement-learning), [#dynamic-programming](https://daily.dev/tags/dynamic-programming) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/github---alxndrtl-little-book-rl-the-little-book-of-reinforcement-learning-wwoibwros) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"GitHub - alxndrTL/little-book-rl: The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/github---alxndrtl-little-book-rl-the-little-book-of-reinforcement-learning-wwoibwros","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/github---alxndrtl-little-book-rl-the-little-book-of-reinforcement-learning-wwoibwros"},"datePublished":"2026-07-17T02:32:57.756Z","dateModified":"2026-07-17T02:33:13.044Z","description":"A free introductory book on Reinforcement Learning covering fundamentals through applied algorithms like PPO. The accompanying GitHub repository includes...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/6dfec8c912bfc529cc9d8f58f23e246d?_a=AQAEuop","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/6dfec8c912bfc529cc9d8f58f23e246d?_a=AQAEuop","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Hacker News","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Hacker News","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/hn","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/github---alxndrtl-little-book-rl-the-little-book-of-reinforcement-learning-wwoibwros","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":0},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"machine-learning,python,pytorch,reinforcement-learning,dynamic-programming","timeRequired":"PT1M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Hacker News","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/hn"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"GitHub - alxndrTL/little-book-rl: The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning"}]} ```