Programming Books
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HTML:
Title: Sams Web Publishing with HTML 4
Publisher: Sams
Author(s): Laura Lemay
ISBN: 0-672-31345-6
Difficulty: Easy/Intermediate
Rating: 5
Review: An excellent book if you are looking to get started in basic web site development. It also doubles as a reference for all you pro's out there.
Name : Creating Web pages with HTML
Publisher : IDG Books
Difficulty : Easy
Rating : 5
Review : My first HTML book. It teaches you evereything you want to know about HTML and even some CSS! It has pictures to help you understand everything, and shows the instuctions in a step by step method!
Title: HTML Complete 2nd Edition
Authors:unknown
Publisher
ybex
Difficulty:Easy
Rating:4.5
Review:Easy way to learning HTML. If you want to know how easy, easy enough for a 11 year old to learn alot of it in less then a week. It doesn't have a few of the codes that you would want but has almost everyone that I would want. If your looking to start programming and have no idea of what to do, get this one.
PHP/MySQL:
Title: Professional PHP 4
Publisher: Wrox Press Ltd.
Author(s): Argerich, Choi, Coggeshall, Egervari, Geisler, Greant, Hill, Hubbard, Moore, O'Dell, Parise, Rawat, Sani, Scollo, Thomas, Ullman
ISBN: 1-861006-91-8
Difficulty: Advanced
Rating: 4
Review: Excellent book if you are looking to learn all the little things in php that help save time and make life alot easier. You should have atleast some
knowledge of php before you pick up this book. It is quite long and boring, I personally use it more as a reference then a tutorial.
Title: PHP & MySQL Web Development
Publisher: Sams
Author(s): Luke Welling & Laura Thomson
ISBN: 0-672-31784-2
Difficulty: Easy
Rating: 5
Review: An excellent book if you are looking to learn PHP and MySQL. The book is easy to read and straight foward with very well organized chapters(Half the
book is learning php and the other half is learning php and mysql).
javascript:
Title: Javascript Bible
Publisher: IDG Books Worldwide
Author(s): Danny Goodman
ISBN: 0-7645-3188-3
Difficulty: Easy
Rating: 5
Review: Covers the language extensively and is very easy to follow. It helps you learn the language in a fun and interesting way with practical examples that are used in the real world.
C++:
Title: Teach yourself C++
Publisher: IDG Books Worldwide
Author(s): Al Stevens
ISBN: 0-7645-4634-1
Difficulty: Hard
Rating: 4
Review: I really liked this book it was much easier to read and follow along with then other books I've read in the past. The chapters were well organized and they didn't throw in any information that was considered unnecessary(they don't gve you a 20pg chapter on the history of C).
Title: How to Program: C++
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Author(s): P. Deitel & H. Deitel
ISBN: 0-13-089571-7
Difficulty: Very Hard
Rating: 2
Review: I kind of had alittle trouble following along with this book. It was written for college students. I didn't really like how the book was set up. You don't actually get to any example code until about 1/2 way into the book. The book was also quite boring and full of information that didn't need to be included(A 20 page chapter on the history of C). The book was also very expensive, it came in a package that costed me over $140.
C:
Title: The Complete Reference: C
Publisher: Osborne
Author(s): Herbert Schildt
ISBN: 0-07-212124-6
Difficulty: Easy
Rating: 5
Review: I find this book extremely useful whenever I am stuck in a situtation where I am not quite sure about something and I need to look it up(I must have looked up the string functions like 10000 times). This book is not a tutorial, just a reference so If you don't know C you shouldn't get this book. The book has in-deph coverage of the entire c language and its function libraries.
Title: Sams Teach Yourself C
Publisher: Sams
Author(s): Tony Zhang
ISBN: 0-672-31861-x
Difficulty: Easy
Rating: 4
Review: I used this book(amoung many others) when I was first trying to learn C. This book gets you writing applications with 10minutes of picking it up. Its extremely easy to read and every chapter has a quiz to test you on the knowledge you have aquired. However I did not like the fact that this book not have good example and did not cover the whole c language.
Title: The C Programming Language (ANSI C)
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Author(s): Brian Kernighan & Dennis Ritchie
ISBN: 0-13-110362-8
Difficulty: Easy
Rating: 5
Review: This is best C book out there. It will teach you all that you need to know, but without boring the reader to death. The book is very short but covers all of the basics and even some of the advanced stuff. I highly recommend this book to anyone seeking to learn the c langauge.
Title: The Standard C Library
Publisher: Prentice Hall
Author(s): P.J. Plauger
ISBN: 0-13-131509-9
Difficulty: Intermediate
Rating: 4
Review: This book covers all of the standard C libraries in deph. Its more of a reference then anything else. I would recommend the book if you are looking for a quick and easy to navigate reference book on the standard c libraries.
Visual Basic
Title: Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 Professional Step by Step
Publisher: Microsoft Press
Author(s): Halvorson, Michael
ISBN: 1-57231-809-0
Difficulty: Easy
Rating: 5
Review: It is very easy to read and understand. I like the way they use bullets, pictures and tips. It shows you pictures of just about everything. The project, code, components and also when you run it, it shows the final program. The book comes with a CD, which has the practice files that you need to learn.
Java:
Title: Java Programming For The Absolute Beginner - No Experience Required
Author: Joseph P. Russell
Publisher: Prima
Difficulty: Easy
Rating: 5
Review: I read it back about 5 months ago. I had never read another programming book in my life. I was just getting started (I am 15) and it uses games programs as a project for each chapter. It was quite literally pick up, read, learn. Easy as that. I recommend it to anybody who doesn't know a thing about programming.
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