Best Web Development & Design Programming
This book is also available as part of a set in hardcover - Web Design with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery , 9781119038634; and in softcover - Web Design with HTML, CSS, JavaScript and jQuery , 9781118907443. Large info-graphics are used to help simplify new or complex concepts Clean design and layout presents each topic on a new page for easy reference Printed in full-color, using a vibrant palette to distinguish different types of code Attractive code samples help you make beautiful web sites.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The book starts easy and takes each concept step by step in order to make it as easy as possible for you to learn the content, contains examples almost every page that you can try yourself and tinker with to your hearts content."
"Several years later I finally got around to reading it cover to cover (I took a class) and let me tell you I could not have gotten by without this book."
"I love this book, but the only caveat about it, if you are really using it the pages are not glued well, so the book falls apart super fast."
"The fact that the lessons are, in fact, so casual left me going through chapters as though I were in the sitting there with a friendly teacher right in front of me."
"Every page feels like a well-designed web page."
"I highly recommend this book if you are going to learn HTML, or need like a reference book to HTML."
"I bought this book because during the winter brake I wanted to learn how to create a personal website to use as an online portfolio, and I have to say that this book has given me the foundation to be able to create a decent looking web page."
"To add to my happiness, shipping was amazing, I received my book way sooner than anticipated."
As you work through Python Crash Course you’ll learn how to: –Use powerful Python libraries and tools, including matplotlib, NumPy, and Pygal. –Make 2D games that respond to keypresses and mouse clicks, and that grow more difficult as the game progresses. –Work with data to generate interactive visualizations. –Create and customize Web apps and deploy them safely online. –Deal with mistakes and errors so you can solve your own programming problems. Eric Matthes is a high school science and math teacher living in Alaska where he teaches Introduction to Python.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I purchased this book with a book on Machine Learning in Python as well."
"but not with this book. Like i said, I started this book AFTER going through all those other materials so I'm not sure how it would fair with someone who is starting at absolute zero, but my honest opinion is that if i had started here and moved on i would have perhaps been a bit further at this point."
"I'm taking programming courses to complete a teaching authorization in computer science and this book is 10x better than the required text."
"It is clearly written, uses examples that are interesting and have real world application, creating bar graphs and web pages for report output."
"I am about half way through this book."
"learned a lot."
"Great start into python; this will give you the foundation."
"On the iOS devices, the code font is garbled, but you can ask the publisher for a new download of the book where the font has been corrected."
A two-book set for web designers and front-end developers This two-book set combines the titles HTML & CSS: Designing and Building Web Sites and JavaScript & jQuery: Interactive Front-End Development . Jon Duckett has been designing and building web sites for over a decade, working with global brands, and has authored and co-authored over a dozen books on web design, programming, usability and accessibility.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"They cost $6 each to add the spiral binding and I was impress with their results."
"This would not be an issue if the example code was reused in order to clarify a new point, but it gets slightly annoying when it is simply readdressing a learning topic that was already covered earlier in the text. Also, if you come from a programming background, these books sometimes leave you with a lot of questions, i.e. they do not provide enough technical details in some passages."
"So far these books have been used more for references to look up stuff as I don't always like to check random Google searches for answers and it's helped me out a lot."
"If you are looking for a book to help you quickly learn fundamentals, then this book may work wonderfully for you as it did for me."
"The pictures supplement what you're learning to make it fun and easy."
"But this set is a good start for the beginner and makes a good reference as well for those beginner concepts."
"I covered more grounds in learning Javascript compared to self learning using other JS books."
"These books tried to fall apart out of the box."
Best ASP.NET Programming
Windows PowerShell in Action, Third Edition is the definitive guide to PowerShell, now revised to cover PowerShell 6. Windows PowerShell in Action, Third Edition is the definitive guide to PowerShell, now revised to cover PowerShell 6. The best end-to-end coverage of PowerShell available Updated with coverage of PowerShell v6 PowerShell workflows PowerShell classes Writing modules and scripts Desired State Configuration Programming APIs and pipelines. Welcome to PowerShell Working with types Operators and expressions Advanced operators and variables Flow control in scripts PowerShell functions Advanced functions and scripts Using and authoring modules Module manifests and metadata Metaprogramming with scriptblocks and dynamic code PowerShell remoting PowerShell workflows PowerShell Jobs Errors and exceptions Debugging Working with providers, files, and CIM Working with .NET and events Desired State Configuration Classes in PowerShell The PowerShell and runspace APIs Appendix - PowerShell 6.0 for Windows, Linux, and MacOS. Bruce Payette is a founding member of the PowerShell team at Microsoft.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I've been writing in PowerShell for a couple of years, but I still find myself going to the internet for how to do certain things in the language."
"I have been searching for good reference material for PowerShell because I use it so much withy job."
"I bought this book back in 2007, as I was curious about powershell - which was version 1 at the time and this book was a key book to understanding it. I got a few books on powershell, and the style of this book at first seemed very choppy, but as I learned more about the language it became more understandable the way things were done in this book."
"This book is excellent material for anyone wanting to master PowerShell."
"I don't ever remember reading a computer book from cover to cover, but I got hooked on this book and "can't put it down"... Plus, who ever thought that the history of a program could be as interesting as this one is."
"I consider this book to be the best on Powershell 2.0 with full detailed explanations, examples and easy to follow instructions, guides and a remarkable and uncanny delivery method by the author."
"I have experience writing in Perl, C#, JavaScript and am picking up on Powershell.."
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Best ActiveX Programming
ADO: ActiveX Data Objects is both an introduction and a complete reference to ADO (ActiveX Data Objects), Microsoft's universal data access solution. Jason T. Roff has been programming computers since he was eight years old.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I was a C programmer in a former life and was thrown into VBA programming with Excel."
"If you, as I did, make any attempt to learn ADO from the many books on VB out there, you will discover that none of them presents the subject in a way such that you can start writing code immediately in a way respectable to the programming community. Jason Roff's book presents the entire subject making one assumption: The reader does not know anything about ADO."
"This is important to me in that I must interface with those experts and by using this book, I was able to ask intelligent questions and avoid asking the "dumb questions"."
"Before you buy any other ADO book, I recommend you to take a look at this book first."
"I have other ADO books in my collection but Mr. Roff's explanation of ADO's functionality plus his insight and suggestions on how to code with ADO make this book my number one ADO resource."
"I have other ADO books in my collection but Mr. Roff's explanation of ADO's functionality plus his insight and suggestions on how to code with ADO make this book my number one ADO resource."
"It pieces together all the different parts into a unified solid foundation."
"This is a well written book for existing programmers who want to learn ADO."
Best Cold Fusion Programming
Adobe ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit is the best-selling ColdFusion series of all time—used by more ColdFusion developers to learn the product than any other books. He is the author of the best-selling ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit series, as well as multiple books on SQL, Regular Expressions, Java, Windows development, and more.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"Excellent update for CF 10 - now we need the CF 11/12 version(s)."
"This book was a great addition to my technical reference library."
"Script syntax has matured in the last couple of versions of CF and could easily have been used exclusively, at least for code which doesn't generate HTML directly."
"While I am learning a great deal, this book is pretty thin for the price."
"I've used lots that I've learned from it and have impressed other developers on my team."
"We'll documented all new features , ready to do some examples now on new enhancements."
"Thin, not what I expected."
Best Java Server Pages Programming
This new edition of Murach's Java Servlets and JSP makes it easier than ever for Java developers to master web programming. When he's not programming or writing books about programming, he can be found surfing or writing music.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"I purchased this book to have an understanding about servlets and how they work, and this book does a great job doing so."
"Had a previous version too and both are great Java books."
"What can I say, this is my 4th Murach book."
"I needed a basic crash course on Servlets and JSP technology, and this book has served me with just that."
"Bought it for school and it teaches what you would expect."
"Much good material, good broad coverage, great examples, but not very deep in some areas."
Best JavaScript Programming
By the time you finish this book, you’ll be able to take advantage of the best design practices and experiences of those who have fought the beast of software design and triumphed. Eric Freeman recently ended nearly a decade as a media company executive, having held the position of CTO of Disney Online & Disney.com at The Walt Disney Company. More recently, she's been a master trainer for Sun Microsystems, teaching Sun's Java instructors how to teach the latest technologies to customers, and a lead developer of several Sun certification exams.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"a nice intro to design patterns."
"I love these Head First books."
"I've always preferred and loved the idea of fun and learn being together, and this book does exactly that, it's a book so easy to read that helps you to keep reading, and invites you to actually do the excercises, and they look fun to do."
"Fun book."
"It presents exactly what you need to know in an easy and fun to read format, making it much less of a textbook and more of a "Hey look at all this cool stuff you can do with software!""
"While GOF book covers more patterns, it's not as nearly as much fun to read as Head First Design Patterns. Bottom line: - I definitely recommend this book to any junior developer who wants to get familiar with Design Patterns. - Experienced developers will skip quite a few pages (like I did), yet it's still a good read."
"Great book, I should have read it years ago."
"This book is definitely not the patterns Nirvana, and it may not make you the patterns guru, but it sure is a great book, extremely well written to welcome the beginner to the world of patterns. Once I master this book and practice the patterns, I am sure I will be able to move to the next level and maybe I will be better able to understand the GOF bible which I learn is a must read for any serious techie!"
Best PHP Programming
With this popular hands-on guide, you'll tackle dynamic web programming with the help of today's core technologies: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, and HTML5. I would definitely recommend it for beginners " " A must have book for those who begin sailing in the Web development waters " " A very in-depth introduction for webmasters " " It has everything I needed to get up to speed very quickly " " The book did a great job of filling the holes in my knowledge ".
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Find Best Price at Amazon"However, MySQL and PHP have changed DRASTICALLY and if you learn from this book only you will need to supplement all of the knowledge gained and it will probably only lead to confusion. Most recently salting and hashing has been automated by the overlords of PHP into a singular function: password_hash(STRING, PRESET_ALGORITHM). This was done because salting and hashing were produced incorrectly on so many sites that PHP's caretakers decided that it would be in everyone's best interest to simplify the process. Only briefly there is part of a chapter where he touches on prepared statements, which has become the correct way to instantiate MySQL queries."
"This is a great reference text."
"The easiest to follow and understand, provided the most comprehensive knowledge a developer needs."
"This book gives a solid Introduction of building an end to end Web Site/System with PHP, MySQL in the server side, and JavaScript and JQuery in the Client Side."
"Good material with a width coverage of topics for everyone who wants to up their coding game."
"I like the authors writing style he made the information flow in a logical manner and covered pretty much all the bases from start to finish."
"Excellent."
Best Computer Programming Languages
And as such, I know what it's like to be asked to whip up brilliant algorithms on the spot and then write flawless code on a whiteboard. Learn how to uncover the hints and hidden details in a question, discover how to break down a problem into manageable chunks, develop techniques to unstick yourself when stuck, learn (or re-learn) core computer science concepts, and practice on 189 interview questions and solutions. Extensive coverage of essential topics, such as big O time, data structures, and core algorithms. At Google, she interviewed hundreds of software engineers and evaluated thousands of hiring packets on the hiring committee.
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Find Best Price at Amazon"The DP solutions in this book are not actually tabular DP formulations--I recommend looking at the problems here http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~bcdean/dp_practice/ (Brian Dean's Dynamic Programming Practice Problems)."
"The main reason I bought the book is that it closely reflects the status quo of the technical interviews in large tech companies. For many of the problems, unless you know the solutions beforehand, there is no way you can code up a decent one within an hour. The book mentions an example, a good candidate whom the author knows very well but just cannot pass the coding interviews. I am guessing the assumption is that the coding problems we do nowadays on the interviews somehow achieve minimal number of false positives. One solution reduces the problem to checking for substrings. The author claims the time complexity is O(m+n), which I believe for Java is actually O(mn). Overall this is good book for preparing for coding interviews."
"I've been writing software for a long time, and I'm competent at my job. Because the presence of books like these create a vicious cycle: prep book gets written; interviewees study/memorize answers; interviewers make questions "harder" to compensate; new book gets written! The grinder continues to turn, and whereas ten years ago you could get a good job with some string or linked-list manipulation questions, now you've got people who consider whiteboard coding of topcoder elite questions to be the baseline measurement of programmer competency. You'll even run into lazy interviewers who take questions directly from this book, which is the ultimate in stupidity: if "good" candidates have prepared from the book, and you ask questions directly from the book, what are you really accomplishing, other than a test of memorization skills? I've seen it myself."