Programming

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 highly-acclaimed book not only gives experienced developers a hands-on tour of the Entity Fram...

[Publish Date: January 2009]

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 su...

[Publish Date: May 2008]

Programming WCF Services, 2nd Edition

By Juval Lowy

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 l...

[Publish Date: November 2008]

Other Editions: 1st Edition

Head First C#, 1st Edition

By Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene

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 C# 3.0 and Visual Studio 2008, and teaches everything from language fundamentals to advanced topics...

[Publish Date: November 2007]

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 a...

[Publish Date: July 2008]

Programming Interactivity, 1st Edition

By Joshua Noble

Make cool stuff. If you're a designer or artist without a lot of programming experience, this book will teach you to work with 2D and 3D graphics, sound, physical interaction, and electronic circuitry to create all sorts of interesting and compelling...

[Publish Date: July 2009]

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 le...

[Publish Date: January 2008]

Programming the Semantic Web, 1st Edition

By Toby Segaran, Colin Evans, Jamie Taylor

With this book, the promise of the semantic web -- in which machines can find, share, and combine data on the Web -- is not just a technical possibility, but a practical reality. Programming the Semantic Web demonstrates several ways to implement sem...

[Publish Date: July 2009]

Essential ActionScript 3.0, 3 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 simp...

[Publish Date: June 2007]

Other Editions: 2 Edition

Essential ActionScript 3.0, 3 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 simp...

[Publish Date: June 2007]

Other Editions: 2 Edition

Programming the iPhone User Experience, 1st Edition

By Toby Boudreaux

This practical book provides you with a hands-on, example-driven tour of Apple's user interface toolkit, UIKit, and some common design patterns for creating gestural interfaces and multi-touch navigation for the iPhone and iPod Touch. You'll learn ho...

[Publish Date: August 2009]

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 JavaScr...

[Publish Date: December 2007]