Here's the latest from Andrew Stellman, coauthor of Head First PMP and Head First C#. Jenny and I have been doing a really neat talk lately called "Why Projects Fail". (You can download a PDF of the slides from this...
Here's another from Andrew Stellman, coauthor of Head First PMP and Head First C#. In my last post, Pushing the Interactivity Envelope, I started talking a little bit about the exercises in Head First C#. We gave our readers lots...
Here's the latest from Andrew Stellman, coauthor of Head First PMP and Head First C#. Before I start today's post, I want to put in a little plug for Building Better Software—that's a blog where Jenny and I write about...
This week we're hearing from Andrew Stellman, coauthor of Head First PMP and Head First C#. First of all, hi there! I'm Andrew Stellman, author of Head First C# and Head First PMP. My coauthor, Jenny Greene, and I will...
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Another blog entry from Head First Software Development author Russ Miles. Enjoy! No, contrary to how the title of this post sounds, we're not talking about life long commitment to your partner here (although that can be fun and challenging...
Head First SQL has been nominated for the 2007 Jolt award for best technical book. Congratulations to author Lynn Beighley!...
Here's the latest from Head First Software Development author Russ Miles. Enjoy! Yesterday I talked about people being the 'special sauce' of really great software development, and today I thought I'd take things a bit further and closer to home...
Here's another post by Head First Software Development author Russ Miles. Enjoy! Yesterday I got to thinking about what was the one thing that characterizes successful software development, and after a while I actually realized that the answer is fairly...
Here's our first entry by Head First Software Development author Russ Miles. Enjoy! Ok, so this is my first post to the Head First blogs (which is a fantastic honor) and, continuing on from Mike's great posts a couple of...
As presidential primary season gets under way in the U.S. and voters begin to align their loyalties with their candidate of choice, here's an interesting hypothesis to ponder: what if our political leanings are ingrained in our brain chemistry?...
More from David Griffiths, author of the upcoming Head First Ruby on Rails: I noticed that someone recently posted the 1983 documentary "Talking Turtle" (I think it was originally from the BBC series "Horizon") on Google video. It is about...
Check out this revised excerpt from Head First C#, with new material that didn't make it into the book's first printing....
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David Griffiths pointed out this article a few weeks ago: Brain 'irrelevance filter' found Using fMRI scans, scientists located a specific place in the brain that is more active while a person is filtering out distracting information. This is particularly...
We know the Head First series offers some of the most interactive tech books around, but there are limits to what we can feasibly do within the confines of the printed page. Much as we'd like to, we can't engage...
We just posted five chapters of exercises for Head First Object-Oriented Analysis & Design, with more on the way....
Here's the last installment (this week, anyway!) from Head First JavaScript author Michael Morrison. Enjoy! One of the highlights of tagging along to the grocery store with my Mom as a kid was getting a new issue of Mad magazine....
We've got a winner for Lab #1 of Head First C#, so you can now download the executable. There are still two unsolved labs....
The code for Head First Software Development is now available on the book page....
Here's installment #4 from Head First JavaScript author Michael Morrison. Enjoy! A big part of the Head First approach to teaching involves metaphors, where a challenging concept is recast into a form that is more immediately accessible. I have a...
Here is the next installment from Head First JavaScript author Michael Morrison. Enjoy! A few weeks ago Head First team member Keith McNamara blogged about the 25th anniversary of the Commodore 64 computer. And it got me thinking about my...
Here is the second installment from Head First JavaScript author Michael Morrison. Enjoy! When my brother and I were kids, we liked to race our bicycles around the outside of our house. Being over five years older than me, my...
Today is the first installment from Head First JavaScript author Michael Morrison. Enjoy! So this week the Head First team is turning the blog reigns over to an author. And a loose cannon of an author at that...hope I don't...
We're going to try something new in the next few weeks: Featured Author entries. You'll hear from Mike Morrison (Head First JavaScript) and Andrew Stellman & Jennifer Greene (Head First C# and Head First PMP). We hope to have feature...
I've taken a few days off from posting more thoughts on anticipation (see the previous few blog entries), largely because everyone's on holiday and probably not spending much time reading Head First blogs :-) We'll get back to anticipation in...
I recently received an email from a Head First reader suggesting we consider creating supplemental Head First reference books for the existing titles in the series: materials that would presumably provide a summary/recap of key concepts and skills covered in...
