GRASS GIS 7 Course link list

(note for MS-Windows: the installation requires administrator rights, for this right-click on the installer and use the "administrator" entry from the right mouse context menu)
winGRASS 7 - select either the standalone installer or the OSGeo4W installer:
Important: right-click on installer to run it with administrator rights.
- winGRASS 7.4 standalone installer
- winGRASS 7.4 OSGeo4W through osgeo4w-setup.exe installer - select "Advanced" and therein "grass" (screenshot )
R-stats: installer + Wiki instructions
Optional: QGIS 2 standalone: installer (--> Download QGIS 2)
Optional: QGIS 2 OSGeo4W: use OSGeo4W installer and select "Advanced" and therein "qgis"

GRASS GIS 7 + QGIS: depends on your distribution, many of them offer binary packages

Precompiled GRASS GIS 7.4 packages
Compile and Install instructions
R-stats: depends on the distribution + Wiki instructions
Optional: QGIS 2: depends on your Linux distribution, many of them offer binary packages

Neteler, M., Bowman, M.H., Landa, M. and Metz, M. (2012): GRASS GIS: a multi-purpose Open Source GIS. Environmental Modelling & Software,31: 124-130 [DOI | PDF]
G.B. Hall (Ed), (2008): Open Source Approaches to Spatial Data Handling. 278pp. Springer, New York. ISBN-13 978-3-540-74830-4
Neteler, M. and H. Mitasova (2008): Open Source GIS: A GRASS GIS Approach. Third Edition. Springer, New York. ISBN-13: 978-0-387-35767-6, 406 pages, 80 illus. http://www.grassbook.org
Rocchini, D., Neteler, M. (2012): Let the four freedoms paradigm apply to ecology. Accepted by Trends in Ecology and Evolution, 27(6): 310-31 [DOI]
GRASS Documentation Project

Bivand, R., Pebesma, E., Rubio, V., 2008. Applied Spatial Data Analysis with R. Use R Series, Springer, Heidelberg, pp. 378. (web site)
Bivand, R., 2012: CRAN Task View: Analysis of Spatial Data

Sherman, G., 2008. Desktop GIS: Mapping the planet with Open Source tools. Pragmatic Bookshelf, Raleigh.
QGIS manuals