Open Source Books
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Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML
Published 15 years ago
by Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Freeman, O'Reilly Media
Today, serious Web pages use HTML and XHTML to structure their content and CSS for style and presentation. You need a book that understands how to incorporate everything correctly. Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML explains the fundamentals of HTML, XHTML, topics like web color, and CSS properties. In this book, pictures and step-by-step instructions explain how to build great-looking, standards-compliant web sites.
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Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner
Published 15 years ago
by Michael Dawson, Course Technology PTR
Ready to learn Python programming? Are you new to programming with Python? Do you need a solid introduction to the fundamental concepts? You've found it in "Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner, Second Edition," the updated version of the successful "Python Programming for the Absolute Beginner.
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Microsoft® Visual C#® 2005 Step by Step (Step By Step (Microsoft))
Published 15 years ago
by John Sharp, Microsoft Press
Visual C#, a feature of Microsoft Visual Studio® 2005, is a modern programming language designed to deliver a productive environment for creating business frameworks and reusable object-oriented components. Now you can teach yourself essential techniques with Visual C#?and start building components and Microsoft Windows®-based applications?one step at a time. With STEP BY STEP, you work at your own pace through hands-on, learn-by-doing exercises. Whether you?
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Twisted Network Programming Essentials
Published 15 years ago
by Abe Fettig, O'Reilly Media
"Twisted Network Programming Essentials" from O'Reilly is a task-oriented look at this new open source, Python-based technology. The book begins with recommendations for various plug-ins and add-ons to enhance the basic package as installed. It then details Twisted's collection simple network protocols, and helper utilities. The book also includes projects that let you try out the Twisted framework for yourself.
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Learning Java
Published 15 years ago
by Pat Niemeyer, Jonathan Knudsen, O'Reilly Media
Version 5.0 of the Java 2 Standard Edition SDK is the most important upgrade since Java first appeared a decade ago. With Java 5.0, you'll not only find substantial changes in the platform, but to the language itself-something that developers of Java took five years to complete. The main goal of Java 5.0 is to make it easier for you to develop safe, powerful code, but none of these improvements makes Java any easier to learn, even if you've programmed with Java for years.
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Data Structures and Problem Solving Using Java (3rd Edition)
Published 16 years ago
by Mark Allen Weiss, Addison Wesley
Data Structures and Problem Solving Using Java 3/e provides a practical introduction to data structures from a viewpoint of abstract thinking and problem solving, and incorporates the enhancements of Java 5.0. It includes coverage of generic programming, and content on the design of generic collection classes. This book is appropriate for readers who are familiar with basic Java programming concepts or are new to the language and want to learn how it treats data structures concepts.
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Python Pocket Reference (Pocket Reference (O'Reilly))
Published 16 years ago
by Mark Lutz, O'Reilly Media
Python is optimized for quality, productivity, portability, and integration. Hundreds of thousands of Python developers around the world rely on Python for general-purpose tasks, Internet scripting, systems programming, user interfaces, and product customization. Available on all major computing platforms, including commercial versions of Unix, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X, Python is portable, powerful and remarkable easy to use.
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Head First Java, 2nd Edition
Published 16 years ago
by Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates, O'Reilly Media
It has taken four years, but with Head First Java the introductory Java book category has finally come of age. This is an excellent book, far more capable than any of the scores of Java-for-novices books that have come before it. Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates deserve rich kudos--and big sales--for developing this book's new way of teaching the Java programming language, because any reader with even a little bit of discipline will come away with true understanding of how the language works.
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Beginning C# Game Programming (Game Development)
Published 16 years ago
by Ron Penton, Course Technology PTR
Are you ready to try your hand at programming games using C#? "Beginning C# Game Programming" is your ideal introductory guide?designed to jumpstart your experience with C# and DirectX 9. It includes the fundamental topics you?ll need to know and covers additional topics that you?ll find helpful along the way. Begin with a comprehensive look at programming with C#?from the basics of classes to advanced topics such as polymorphism and abstraction. Then it?
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Web Database Applications with PHP & MySQL, 2nd Edition
Published 16 years ago
by Hugh E. Williams, O'Reilly Media
PHP and MySQL go hand in hand; the former has been carefully adapted, through the efforts of the open-source community, to the latter. For situations that require dynamic content but don't merit the complexity and development time of Java or .NET enterprise applications, the PHP language and the MySQL database server fit the bill perfectly.