books by Prentice Hall PTR

books by Prentice Hall PTR

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Prentice Hall PTR

The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites (2nd Edition)

Douglas K. van Duyne, James A. Landay, ...

Prentice Hall PTR, 2006

By Far the best Book on Designing winning web sites available
I am taking college courses for web design and I keep thinking to myself why they don't make this book a standard for the courses I am taking. This book is a wealth of information on any subject or problem that you might run into in designing a site for the client as ...

Working Effectively with Legacy Code (Robert C. Martin Series)

Michael Feathers

Prentice Hall PTR, 2004

Pleasant to read and extremely practical.
I am an entry level software developer who has only been in the industry for a little over a year. While I was in college, I was always provided with very clean code bases to work with or analyze. I was in for a huge surprise when I entered the real world. The code I ...

Agile Estimating and Planning (Robert C. Martin Series)

Mike Cohn

Prentice Hall PTR, 2005

Great book...Helped me on the PM concepts of Agile.
I enjoyed this book...I found it helped with the project management aspects of Agile while keeping grounded in common sense.

C Programming Language (2nd Edition) (Prentice Hall Software)

Brian W. Kernighan, Dennis M. Ritchie

Prentice Hall PTR, 1988

The Must-have
I've read the first edition, and this is a must. It doesn't cover some of the details of ISO/ansi 99, but those can be found elsewhere. What can't be found is the way the authors drag even the beginning student right into the depths of memory allocation so soon. ...

Official Ubuntu Book, The (3rd Edition)

Benjamin Mako Hill, Corey Burger, ...

Prentice Hall PTR, 2008

Great for New Ubuntu Users / Not so great for seasoned Ubuntu users
I have to give credit to the authors who put together a comprehensive book about Ubuntu. This book is just perfect for new users! I decided to delve into building a server and purchased this book believing I would find much more information than I did. The book ...

Joomla! A User's Guide: Building a Successful Joomla! Powered Website

Barrie M. North

Prentice Hall PTR, 2007

A holistic approach
The focus of this book is on creating a successful website using Joomla, rather than explaining every setting and feature of Joomla itself. Whilst it does comprehensively cover many of Joomla's useful features, leading the novice confidently from basic principles to ...

Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship (Robert C. Martin Series)

Robert C. Martin

Prentice Hall PTR, 2008

A must-buy for object-oriented developers
When most people hear the term "bad writing" they understand the term: Confusing, inconsistent, rambling, big words used incorrectly. In fact, we have lots and lots of educational programs designed to teach grammar, composition, journalism, and fiction. Master's ...

Core Java(TM), Volume I--Fundamentals (8th Edition) (Sun Core Series)

Cay S. Horstmann, Gary Cornell

Prentice Hall PTR, 2007

Even for the most experienced Java programmers
I am an extremely experienced Java programmer and Ph. D. computer scientist. I write and teach courses and develop technical assessments, so it's important to me to keep up with language developments. While I've bought a great many Java books over the years, I've ...

A Practical Guide to Linux(R) Commands, Editors, and Shell Programming

Mark G. Sobell

Prentice Hall PTR, 2005

A book that will help you become a Linux command line guru
This is a book that I have been looking for for a long time. I have been looking for a book that takes me into the command line world of Linux but in a methodical way describing all the little options, tips, tricks but also the principles that make Linux shell so ...

Effective Java (2nd Edition) (Java Series)

Joshua Bloch

Prentice Hall PTR, 2008

Taught this old dog new tricks
I've been programming Java since 1995 and sometimes think I know everything I need to know about working with the language. Sometimes it takes a book like "Effective Java" make you realize there's always more to learn. This book is packed with incredibly useful ...

Web Service Contract Design and Versioning for SOA (Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from ...
Thomas Erl, Anish Karmarkar, ...

Prentice Hall PTR, 2008

The Ultimate Guide for Designing and Governing Web Service Contracts For Web services to succeed as part of SOA, they require balanced, effective technical contracts that enable services to be evolved and repeatedly reused for years to come. Now, a team of industry experts presents the first end-to-end guide to designing and governing Web ...

LabVIEW for Everyone: Graphical Programming Made Easy and Fun (3rd Edition) (National Instruments Virtual ...

Jeffrey Travis, Jim Kring

Prentice Hall PTR, 2006

The Single Best Overall Book On LabVIEW
If you are a beginner to intermediate with LabVIEW, then the 3rd Edition is the single best book on LabVIEW available to you as of summer of 2007. If your budget only allows for one or a few books, put this one at the top of you list. I have read this book cover to ...

Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to Object-Oriented Analysis and Design and Iterative Development ...

Craig Larman

Prentice Hall PTR, 2004

A "must read" for a programmer
It's a "must read" for a programmer. This book has opened my eyes for lots of things connected with programming I didn't realize before. After reading this book I recommend you reading followings: - "Agile Software Development, Principles, Patterns, and Practices" ...

SOA Principles of Service Design (Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl)

Thomas Erl

Prentice Hall PTR, 2007

Essential Handbook for Service Design
What this book is not: it is not a handbook for architecting an SOA (try Erl's other book, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA): Concepts, Technology, and Design (The Prentice Hall Service-Oriented Computing Series from Thomas Erl), for this). Nor is this a book for ...

Embedded Linux Primer: A Practical Real-World Approach (Prentice Hall Open Source Software Development Series)

Christopher Hallinan

Prentice Hall PTR, 2006

Excellent survey
I am an experienced embedded developer that just inherited an embedded Linux-based project already in progress. As there happens to be no one else at my company with any embedded Linux experience, I automatically became the de-facto Linux expert and I needed to come up ...