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Re: Which design / programming books you highly recommend?
For people with no programming experience, I’ve found that <a href=“http://www.pragmaticprogrammer.com/titles/fr_ltp/index.html”>Learn to Program</a> by Chris Pine teaches underlying concepts simply, and I keep recommending it. It was also a great refresher for me—not to mention a very nice introduction to Ruby.
On the design/typography front, I’ve found <a href=“http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0201782634/sr=8-1/qid=1139542216/ref=pd_bbs_1/104-8088933-7599912?%5Fencoding=UTF8”>The Mac Is Not a Typewriter</a> (or its Windows counterpart) to be a useful little reference.
I can’t wait for this list, Alex. I’m especially interested in what PHP books people recommend.
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Re: Which design / programming books you highly recommend?
Okay, this doesn’t answer Alex’s call for programming and/or design books, but it’s related and might fit in as a general programming tip:
I <strong>strongly</strong> recommend using a font specifically optimized for programming (like <a href=“http://www.tobias-jung.de/seekingprofont/”>ProFont</a>, free) when you plan to spend any length of time reading or writing source code. I find it second only to the use of good whitespace in preventing typos and eyestrain.
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Re: Which design / programming books you highly recommend?
Anything by Eric Meyer, I also reccommend ‘Designing with Web Standards’ and ‘The Zen of CSS Design’. Just waiting for my copy of ‘DOM Scripting’ to arrive.
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Re: Which design / programming books you highly recommend?
“PHP and MySQL for Dynamic Web Sites” by Larry Ullman (Peachpit Press) is my one programming book, from which I managed to make a survey and online petition. It goes from complete basics to E-Commerce. It is task-based and a useful reference too. It might not be for you if you are very clever with maths or programming but if you are a bit clueless wrt programming like I am it is good. There are different versions. Mine is this one
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