books about: object

books about: object

books:

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Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design

Jenifer Tidwell

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005

More Practical Concepts, Less Psychology
While I don't own a physical copy of this book, I had used an electronic form of it in the course of my studies. I will first forewarn those who are interested in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) that this text does not heavily focus on the science of Psychological ...

Head First Java, 2nd Edition

Kathy Sierra, Bert Bates

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005

Best Java book on the Market....
This book is the most user friendly book to teach Java. This is how I got started, and am now a full-on software developer for a fortune-500 company making a good living. I recommend this and other books in the HF series to anyone wanting to learn programming on ...

Learning ActionScript 3.0: A Beginner's Guide

Rich Shupe, Zevan Rosser

O'Reilly/Adobe Developer Library, 2008

Excellent Starting Point for Migrating to ActionScript 3
I first became interested Learning ActionScript 3 after initially reading a few samples posted on Adobe's website. What I found was an excellent starting point that drove me to finally make the jump from ActionScript 1 and 2. In practice, most books I have read about ...

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

David Flanagan

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006

The Best JavaScript Book
This book not only assists first-time JavaScript programmers, but is an excellent reference for the more experienced developers. The examples are first-rate, and the reference sections are more comprehensive than any I've seen for this language. A MUST if you are a ...

Essential ActionScript 3.0 (Essential) (Essential)

Colin Moock

Adobe Dev Library, 2007

I do not understand how any programmer could hate this book. It is brilliantly written.
I am amazed at how thorough and organized this book is, but it is from a programmer's perspective. Some people said that this AS 3.0 book is not as good as his previous AS 2.0 book, but I disagree. Adobe has made major changes to the language, which (unfortunately) ...

Effective Java (2nd Edition) (Java Series)

Joshua Bloch

Prentice Hall PTR, 2008

Taught this old dog new tricks
I've been programming Java since 1995 and sometimes think I know everything I need to know about working with the language. Sometimes it takes a book like "Effective Java" make you realize there's always more to learn. This book is packed with incredibly useful ...

JavaScript: The Good Parts

Douglas Crockford

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008

A Great JavaScript Book for Everybody
This is the first book by Douglas Crockford a Senior Software Archtitect at Yahoo. He is widely known as one of the most knowledgeable on JavaScript apart from the creater of JavaScript (Brendan Eich). Douglas Crockford is the creator of JSON and has written many ...

Head First Design Patterns (Head First)

Elisabeth Freeman, Eric Freeman, ...

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2004

Accessible and immediately useful
[Reviewed by XPSD member Ryan Shiffer] My previous experience in studying design patterns has been met with failure. I have tried getting through the Gang of Four book on design patterns, but reading it for me was about the same as reading the dictionary. Reading ...

Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software (Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series)

Erich Gamma, Richard Helm, ...

Addison-Wesley Professional, 1994

THE design patterns book
This book is a classic and doesn't require any further presentations. It is THE Design Patterns bible and every OO programmer should read at least a couple of times. The samples are in C++ and sometimes Smalltalk but that really doesn't change anything even if you ...

Learning Python, 3rd Edition

Mark Lutz

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007

Great book!
This book is great! Good writing, good exercises. Good for people who have some experience in programming. If you have never had any contact to other languages or logic, consider studying some introdutory topics before reading this book.

Mastering Regular Expressions

Jeffrey Friedl

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006

Best material I have seen on regular expressions
I went through several books and online tutorials and never found anything that did a good comprehensive job of explaining regular expressions. This book does. If you are having trouble "getting it", I highly encourage reading this book. You will be extremely ...

Head First C# (Brain-Friendly Guides)

Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007

*Learn* C#
Head First C# was my first experience with the Head First series, although I have since also purchased the excellent Head First Design Patterns (Head First). This book is designed to teach you C# from the beginning. Technical books can generally be categorized as ...

Starting Out with Java: From Control Structures through Objects (3rd Edition)

Tony Gaddis

Addison Wesley, 2007

Great way to learn Java
This is an excellent text for students to learn Java, and Object-oriented programming. The introduction of control structures first allows the beginning programmer to master the ideas of loops / selection, before tackling the more abstract concept of objects, and ...

Access 2007: The Missing Manual

Matthew MacDonald

Pogue Press, 2006

Excellent!
This book is perfect for the novice. It guides you to the key components for MS Access without all the "techie" language. It also points out informative tips and clues to improve your database. This is specific for 2007, which really does make a difference since the ...

Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (Head First)

Brett D. McLaughlin, Gary Pollice, ...

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006

Fantastic introduction or refresher on object oriented concepts
How I wish I'd had this book earlier in my programming career! The Head First series use a novel teaching style that is designed to be engaging and informative and to work for a wide range of people. We all learn in different ways so this book uses them all to make ...