Letts Revise A2 Computing by Roger Legg Published by Letts (ISBN 1-85805-910-0) Picked up this book by mistake actually, but I must say I like it. Any course that throws the student into the deep end with low-level assembly programming gets my vote. If I didn’t have all my other courses plotted out I’d […]
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Javascript Made Simple by Peter McBride Published by Made Simple Books, An imprint of Butterworth-Heinemann (ISBN 0-7506-3797-8) Walks you through fifty odd pages of HTML before it gets anywhere near Javascript. If you are delving into Javascript I would hope you have a firm grasp of web editing first myself, but there you go. Grumble
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DK Essential Managers : Information Technology by Steve Sleight Published by Dorling Kindersly (ISBN 0-7513-2788-3) Seems to be aimed at middle-managers wanting the basics and owners of small companies thinking of investing in IT. Covering the basics of computers and of the Internet, it includes chapters on outsourcing, and e-commerce. This one of a
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Visual Start Guide : Fireworks for Windows & Macintosh 3 by Sandee Cohen Published by Peachpit Press (ISBN 0-201-70452-8) Yes, I know Fireworks is at version 4 now, but this book was available so I got it, and as it happens, found it pretty darn good. It’s a well written beginners guide that is
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Warhammer : Lords of Valour (Edited by Marc Gascoigne & Christian Dunn) Published by Black Library Publications (ISBN 1-84154-150-8) I used to play the Warhammer RPG so naturally I gravitate towards than novels based on the Games Workshop game. Most of the books in the collection are quite good, but I’m in two minds
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Visual Start Guide : HTML for the World Wide Web (4th ed) by Elizabeth Castro Publish by Peachpit Press (ISBN 0-201-35493-4) If you want to get to grips with HTML then this is an excellent starting point. After a brief and interesting intro it gradually takes you from the “Hello World!” stage to forms, using
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R.A. Salvatore Forgotten Realms : The Silent Blade (Originally) Published by TSR (ISBN 0-7869-1388-6) Yet another foray by the heroes Drizzt, Wulgar, Cattie-bBrie, Regis and Bruenor in the continuing saga of the sentient crystal Crenshinibon. This books waxes philosophical as they travel to have the evil destroyed and Wulgars twisted mind conjures up personal demons
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DON’T MAKE ME THINK. A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability” by Steve Krug Published by Que Publishing. (ISBN 0-7897-2310-7) This is a no-nonsense approach to web design and makes for very easy reading. Happily a number of his principles I already apply and the rest, well a number of them will be worked
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