Pro JavaScript Techniques is the ultimate JavaScript book for the modern web developer. It provides everything you need to know about modern JavaScript, and shows what JavaScript can do for your web sites. This book doesnt waste any time looking at things you already know, like basic syntax and structures. Expert web developer and author John Resig concentrates on fundamental, vital topicswhat modern JavaScripting is (and isnt), the current state of browser support, and pitf (more…)

Embracing jQuery: User Experience Design is your complete guide to building modern dynamic web sites using jQuery, the extremely popular lightweight and efficient JavaScript library. As you’d expect, this book provides a thorough explanation of jQuery’s syntax and grammar, and explains how to put together a wide range of popular effects and animations that you can use to add jQuery interactivity to your web sites. The book then goes further. Combining the skills of a web (more…)

jQuery’s popularity in the Ruby on Rails community has been growing in recent months. jQuery, with its unobtrusive nature, has got developers thinking in ways that they haven’t done before. jQuery is doing for the implementation of JavaScript what CSS did for the old school table layouts. Ruby on Rails, with its convention over configuration and full stack, makes it extremely simple (and secure) to get a professional web application up and running. Practical Rails wit (more…)

Let Cay Horstmann teach you to think like a programmer! If you really want to master Java, it’s not enough to know the code. You must begin to think like a programmer, and in this newest edition of his bestselling guide, Java Concepts, programming guru Cay Horstmann shows you how. Updated to integrate Java 6, Java Concepts, Fifth Edition introduces you to fundamental programming techniques and design skills that are crucial to learning how to program. Drawing on his many year (more…)

“The [arrays] exercises are quite sophisticated and interesting. Provides the best combination of conceptual discussion and implementation examples of dynamic binding that I have encountered in a text. Excellent overview of basic networking via Java. Provides the perfect breadth and depth for generics in an entry-level Java class. Provides a good segue into a data structures course — the exercises are excellent.” — Ric Heishman, George Mason University “Beautiful collections of e (more…)