books about: interfaces

books about: interfaces

books:

Interfaces

Learning OpenCV: Computer Vision with the OpenCV Library
Gary Bradski, Adrian Kaehler

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008

Learning OpenCV puts you right in the middle of the rapidly expanding field of computer vision. Written by the creators of OpenCV, the widely used free open-source library, this book introduces you to computer vision and demonstrates how you can quickly build applications that enable computers to "see" and make decisions based on the data. ...

The Design of Everyday Things

Donald A. Norman

Basic Books, 2002

A Must Read for every Designer
As a human being we think we know other people and how they see and use products. This book tells many amusing anecdotes about products that were not successful because the designer made the things is a way he would have liked and not in the way real users use it. The ...

World of Warcraft Programming: A Guide and Reference for Creating WoW Addons

James, II Whitehead, Bryan McLemore, ...

Wiley, 2008

A must for WoW addon developers
Do not let the cover fool you. This book is HUGE with 1022 pages full of references, examples and more. I am a beginning programmer in lua and WoW addons and I have other programming languages under my belt which helps me out. This book will explain it to the ...

Xcode 3 Unleashed

Fritz Anderson

Sams, 2008

The BEST way to get familiar with the Xcode Environment.
As another reviewer so kindly mentioned, this book is not for those new to programming, objective-c, or object oriented development. It is Perfect for those of us with a strong background in development that are looking for a walkthrough of the Xcode development ...

Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML

Eric Freeman, Elisabeth Freeman

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005

Great Learnign Tool
The humorous style abd great organization of this book makes learning fun, easy and effective. My 10 y/o daughter read 400 pages in one day, even doing the provided exercises. A truly amazing book. I will also get the Javascript one ...

Getting to Know ArcGIS Desktop: The Basics of ArcView, ArcEditor, and ArcInfo Updated for ArcGIS 9 (Getting ...

Tim Ormsby, Eileen Napoleon, ...

Esri Press, 2004

Good book
I bought this book for a class but it is self explanatory if you are looking to learn more about GIS on your own. Make sure you buy it new otherwise the cd software for ArcGIS could be past the 180 day expiration date. Overall, a good book to have as a resource to ...

Windows Server® 2008 Resource Kit

Microsoft Corporation

Microsoft Press, 2008

Win2K8 Server Resource Kit
I already bought in the past the 2003 resource kit and this one is still as it is/was for 2003: Great! Thanks all Nicolas

CSS: The Definitive Guide

Eric Meyer

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006

Very authoritative and complete
Before purchasing this book, I had purchased about a half dozen books on css, one from the same author. I was really surprised to find new ways to use css that I hadn't learned in the other books. Each topic is discussed completely and in detail. For a reference on ...

Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design

Jenifer Tidwell

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005

More Practical Concepts, Less Psychology
While I don't own a physical copy of this book, I had used an electronic form of it in the course of my studies. I will first forewarn those who are interested in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) that this text does not heavily focus on the science of Psychological ...

Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability, 2nd Edition

Steve Krug

New Riders Press, 2005

Buy this, then get busy testing your site!
I can think of very few sites that couldn't be improved by applying the principles in this book. It does what "Web Sites That Suck" attempts to do, but instead of giving examples of horrible web sites that are most likely beyond fixing, it uses examples of pretty ...

Linux Pocket Guide

Daniel J. Barrett

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2004

Does what it says at a price you can't argue with.
This is definitely a great companion for any Linux administrator or hobbyist who is trying to become a level 60 command line warrior. There are plenty of commands to familiarize yourself with, and they are grouped logically (rather than alphabetically), which means ...

Mastering AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009 (Mastering)
James P.E. Wedding, Dana Probert

Sybex, 2008

If you already possess some background in Civil 3D but want to broaden your understanding of this popular civil engineering software, Mastering AutoCAD Civil 3D 2009 will provide you with detailed coverage of advanced topics like surveying, LandXML and LDT Project Transfer, cross-sections, pipe networks, visualization, project management, and ...

Letting Go of the Words: Writing Web Content that Works (Interactive Technologies) (Interactive Technologies) ...

Janice (Ginny) Redish

Morgan Kaufmann, 2007

This book is great!
I've bought books, and I've bought books, but I haven't had one like this one. It's great. Everything I read in it I can understand and the lightbulb goes on. I'm using it now to enhance my own web storefront, Zeke's Dragon Nest, at [...] to sell my books. Thank you ...

Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites

Louis Rosenfeld, Peter Morville

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006

A lifesaver
As project manager, I was in a bind when our contract information architect failed to understand the complexities of our matrixed business model and client base. Rosenfeld's book helped me design a IA for our 700 page HTML site that has since been described as simple, ...

Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (Head First)

Brett D. McLaughlin, Gary Pollice, ...

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006

Fantastic introduction or refresher on object oriented concepts
How I wish I'd had this book earlier in my programming career! The Head First series use a novel teaching style that is designed to be engaging and informative and to work for a wide range of people. We all learn in different ways so this book uses them all to make ...