Programming Content Archive

Programming Entity Framework, 1st Edition

By Julia Lerman

Programming Entity Framework is a thorough introduction to Microsoft's new core framework for modeling and interacting with data in .NET applications. This book not only gives experienced developers a hands-on tour of the Entity Framework and explains...

[Publish Date: February 2009]

Programming WCF Services, 2nd Edition

By Juval Löwy

Programming WCF Services is the authoritative, bestselling introduction to Microsoft's unified platform for developing service-oriented applications (SOA) on Windows. This relentlessly practical book provides insight, not documentation, to help you learn...

[Publish Date: November 2008]

Other Editions: 1st Edition

JavaScript: The Good Parts, 1st Edition

By Douglas Crockford

Most programming languages contain good and bad parts, but JavaScript has more than its share of the bad, having been developed and released in a hurry before it could be refined. This authoritative book scrapes away these bad features to reveal a subset...

[Publish Date: May 2008]

Learning Python, 3rd Edition

By Mark Lutz

With this hands-on book, you can master the fundamentals of the core Python language quickly and efficiently, whether you're new to programming or just new to Python. Each chapter is a self-contained lesson that helps you thoroughly understand a key ...

[Publish Date: October 2007]

Other Editions: 1st Edition, 2nd Edition

The Ruby Programming Language, 1st Edition

By David Flanagan, Yukihiro Matsumoto

Bestselling author David Flanagan teams up with Ruby creator Yukihiro Matz Matsumoto and writer/cartoonist/programmer why the lucky stiff to bring you the authoritative guide to Ruby. Covering versions 1.9 and 1.8, this book helps you learn Ruby's lexical...

[Publish Date: January 2008]

JavaScript: The Missing Manual, 1st Edition

By David Sawyer McFarland

This book from bestselling author David McFarland teaches you how to use JavaScript in sophisticated ways -- even if you have little or no programming experience. Once you the master the language's structure and terminology, you'll learn how to use advanced...

[Publish Date: July 2008]

Head First C#, 1st Edition

By Jennifer Greene, Andrew Stellman

Head First C# is a complete learning experience for object-oriented programming, C#, and the Visual Studio IDE. Built for your brain, this book covers Visual C# 2008, Visual Studio 2008, and the .NET Framework 3.5, and teaches everything from language...

[Publish Date: November 2007]

Essential ActionScript 3.0, 1st Edition

By Colin Moock

More than two years in the making, ActionScript 3.0 presents perhaps the most substantial upgrade to Flash's programming language ever. The enhancements to ActionScript's performance, feature set, ease of use, cleanliness, and sophistication are simply...

[Publish Date: June 2007]

Programming Flex 3, 1st Edition

By Chafic Kazoun, Joey Lott

If you want to try your hand at developing rich Internet applications with Adobe's Flex 3, and already have experience with frameworks such as .NET or Java, this is the ideal book to get you started. Programming Flex 3 gives you a solid understanding...

[Publish Date: September 2008]

C# 3.0 in a Nutshell

By Ben Albahari, Joseph Albahari

A concise yet thorough reference to C# 3.0 programming as implemented in Microsoft's Visual Studio 2008, C# 3.0 in a Nutshell gets right to the point, covering the essentials of language syntax and usage as well as the parts of the .NET base class libraries...

[Publish Date: September 2007]

Other Editions: 3rd Edition

Programming Collective Intelligence, 1st Edition

By Toby Segaran

This fascinating book demonstrates how you can build web applications to mine the enormous amount of data created by people on the Internet. With the sophisticated algorithms in this book, you can write smart programs to access interesting datasets from...

[Publish Date: August 2007]

Head First JavaScript, 1st Edition

By Michael Morrison

Want to make the leap from writing HTML and CSS web pages and create dynamic web applications? Want to take your web skills to the next level? It sounds like you're ready to learn the Web's hottest programming language: JavaScript. Head First JavaScript...

[Publish Date: December 2007]