FreeBSD geliştirme ortamına katkıda bulunmak için deveploment(7) man page'i kontrol ediniz.Aşağıda UNIX altında programlama konusunda size yardımcı olabilecek kitapların listesi verilmiştir.
Brian Harvey and Matthew Wright Simply Scheme MIT 1994. ISBN 0-262-08226-8
Randall Schwartz Learning Perl O’Reilly 1993 ISBN 1-56592-042-2
Patrick Henry Winston and Berthold Klaus Paul Horn Lisp (3rd Edition) Addison-Wesley 1989 ISBN 0-201-08319-1
Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike The Unix Programming Environment Prentice-Hall 1984 ISBN 0-13-937681-X
Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie The C Programming Language (2nd Edition) Prentice-Hall 1988 ISBN 0-13-110362-8
Bjarne Stroustrup The C++ Programming Language Addison-Wesley 1991 ISBN 0-201-53992-6
W. Richard Stevens Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment Addison-Wesley 1992 ISBN 0-201-56317-7
W. Richard Stevens Unix Network Programming Prentice-Hall 1990 ISBN 0-13-949876-1