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Books on Programming

"Extreme Programming in Practice" by James Newkirk
List price: GBP 22.99 Amazon price: GBP 16.09 You save: GBP 6.90 (30%)
"Extreme Programming in Practice" is the story of the Object Mentor
company's first foray into XP for an internal project. With some
chutzpah it uses its failures as lessons for others. Learn from
Object Mentor's mistakes and save time, money and credibility. Click on our link for a quick introduction to Extreme Programming.

“Visual Basic Graphics Programming” by Rod Stephens
List Price: GBP 35.95 Amazon price: GBP 28.76 You Save GBP 7.19 (20%)
This wonderful introduction to advanced graphics programming will build up your techniques stage by stage so that you can understand the theory as well as follow the practical implementations. Covering the Windows API, Colour systems, Image Processing, Animation, Two and Three Dimensional Grpahics this book will serve you well. The final chapter on mathematical tools should give you what you need to advance even further. Highly recommended for everyone - not just VB programmers.

“An Introduction to Programming with Visual Basic 6.0” by David Schneider. List Price: GBP 27.99, Amazon Price: GBP 24.00 You save GBP 3.00 (10%). OK, another book with VB in the title but this one is an introduction to the craft of programming for beginners - it just happens to use VB for the practical side of the instruction. The book comes with a CD that contains a free copy of the Learning Edition of Visual Basic 6.0. Great value and a great starting point for those who are serious about learning to program.

Books on Languages

Books on Visual Basic

“Ready to Run Visual Basic Code Library” by Rod Stephens.
List Price: GBP 35.95, Amazon price: GBP 28.76 you save GBP &.19 (20%)
More than 160 ready to run resources for database manipulation, graphics, animation, printing and much, much more. If you have covered the basics of Visual Basic but now need to widen your skills this book is a practical approach and all source code can be found on the accompanying CD. Rod Stephens knows his stuff!

Books on Perl.

For an introduction try "Learning Perl"
List price: GBP 24.95 Amazon price: GBP 17.46 You save: GBP 7.49 (30%)
"Learning Perl" is the essential tutorial for the Perl programming
language. Now in its third edition and updated for Perl Version 5.6,
"Learning Perl" draws on the expertise of two of the major
supporters of the highly flexible language, Randal Schwatrz and Tom
Christiansen.

For the more advanced programmer try one of the famous O’Reilly texts "Programming Perl".

Java

"Advanced JavaServer Pages" by David Geary
List price: GBP 35.99 Amazon price: GBP 25.19 You save: GBP 10.80 (30%)
Aimed at those with some JSP experience the authors take you one
step beyond into custom tags, templates, application design and
servlet and bean integration. "Advanced JavaServer Pages" is
especially hot on separating content development from the underlying
programming.

"Javascript Examples Bible: The Essential Companion to Javascript Bible" by Danny Goodman
List price: GBP 20.33 Amazon price: GBP 17.49 You save: GBP 7.50 (14%)
The companion guide to "JavaScript Bible" by the same author, "Javascript Examples Bible" provides over 300 scripts showing how to get the best from JavaScript and the browser DOM (Document Object Model), complete with well-informed comments and compatibility information.

Books on Design

"Robin Williams Web Design Workshop”
List price: GBP 29.99 Amazon price: GBP 20.99 You save: GBP 9.00 (30%)
Robin Williams has a talent for reducing involved and complex
subjects to basics that can be understood by anyone. "Web Design
Workshop" is no exception and is the ideal starting point for anyone
contemplating starting out in Web design.

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