Direct from Amazon.com, best selling and most popular computer related books.
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HTML 4 for the World Wide Web: Visual QuickStart Guide by Elizabeth Castro, Nancy Davis
Amazon.com Review: Ask any burgeoning Web-page author what they want in an HTML guide, and the list would go something like this: concise, informative, plenty of examples, a little bit of fun without being too cute.
Creating Web Pages for Dummies, 3rd Edition
HTML For Dummies, 3rd Edition
Dynamic Html : The Definitive Reference by Danny Goodman
Amazon.com Review: Danny Goodman felt that he couldn't trust any of the documentation on Dynamic HTML (DHTML) that he read (too many contradictions), so he wrote this book as a reference for working with his own clients. After testing tags and techniques on multiple releases of the main browsers, Goodman came up with very practical information--some of which you may not find in any other resource.
The Internet Information Architecture for the World Wide Web by Louis Rosenfeld
Amazon.com Review: In chapter 6 of Information Architecture for the World Wide Web, the authors discuss the details of good search-engine design.
C++ Beginning Visual C++ 6 by Ivor Horton
Amazon.com Review: "Windows programming is not difficult," observes well-respected author Ivor Horton in his book Beginning Visual C++ 6. "In fact, Microsoft Visual C++ 6.0 makes it remarkably easy."
Computer Graphics Inside Adobe Photoshop 5 by Gary David Bouton
Amazon.com Review: This excellent book teaches you how to use Photoshop 5 for Windows and Macintosh to do just about anything you wish. It's a technical guide, a features guide, and an artistic guide, targeting everyone from hobbyists to professionals.
Java The Java(tm) Class Libraries, Second Edition, Volume 1: java.io, java.lang, java.math, java.net, java.text, java.util
Amazon.com Review: As noted by coauthor Patrick Chan in his interview with Amazon.com, programmers spend much of their time writing little programs that do nothing but explain to them the behavior of certain aspects of a language.
Networking Windows NT TCP/IP by Karanjit S. Siyan
Amazon.com Review As you may gather from the title, Windows NT TCP/IP turns with laser-beam intensity to all facets of the Internet's lingua franca--TCP/IP--and how it operates within a Windows networking environment.
Object-Oriented Programming Design Patterns CD : Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software by Erich Gamma
Amazon.com Review With the profusion of technologies, it's rare to say that a particular book is required reading for developers.This is one of those indispensable texts for anyone who develops software.
Operating Systems Linux : Installation, Configuration, and Use by Michael Kofler
Amazon.com Review This book can help you install and configure any version of Linux--Caldera, Slackware, SuSE, and Red Hat are the most popular--as well as get you up and running with a variety of applications.
Perl Perl Cookbook by Tom Christiansen
Amazon.com Review: When the second edition of Programming Perl was released, the authors omitted two chapters: "Common Tasks with Perl" and "Real Perl Programs." Publisher O'Reilly & Associates soon realized that there would be too many pages in Programming Perl