books about: scripting

books about: scripting

books:

Scripting

Geoff Coffey, Susan Prosser

O'Reilly Media, 2007

Best Filemaker Pro Book Around!!!
On my journey to create a relational database I realized the need for a teacher, a resource, and some inspiration. This book is awesome and provided all I needed. My Filemaker knowledge is growing every hour as a result of this book. In addition, my database is ...

Learning the bash Shell (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))

Cameron Newham

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005

Outstanding in every way
I first bought this book over 12 years ago, and I still use it as the standard by which other books are measured. It must be one of my top 5 favorite computer books, ever. The author clearly understands the material, and makes it approachable, direct, and easy to ...

jQuery in Action

Bear Bibeault, Yehuda Katz

Manning Publications, 2008

Super book!
I really have tattered the edges of this book. Normally, I would read a technical book like this, extract all of the information I needed, and then set it back on the book shelf. Not with jQuery in Action! I bring it to work, and then I take it back home in the ...

Head First JavaScript (Head First)

Michael Morrison

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008

Another bullseye from HeadFirst!
Web development is not my primary job so I was looking for something to give me a better understanding of JavaScript without too great an investment of time and money. This book is it! Amazing detail but incredibly easy to follow. The book is simple to scan for ...

Linux Pocket Guide

Daniel J. Barrett

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2004

best little pocket guide thing I've ever seen
Might be confusing for some who don't realize that various flavours of UNINX and Linux abound but so what! This book is not supposed to teach that kind of thing anyway.

Hacking World of Warcraft (ExtremeTech)

Daniel Gilbert, James, II Whitehead

Wiley, 2007

Dated - but still terrific!!!
By its very nature, this sort of material is dated by the time it can go to press. That being said, the authors have done an exemplary job of providing material that covers lasting principles, and not specifics that will be immediately invalidated. In addition, ...

Learning Python, 3rd Edition

Mark Lutz

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2008

Great introductory book
This is a really good introduction to Python. It is very clear, accessible and has quite a lot of substantial content. It does not get into the really deep details, but that is OK because if it tried to the book would become overwhelming. On the other hand, unlike ...

JavaScript: The Definitive Guide

David Flanagan

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2006

Best Language Explanation I've Ever Seen
I've learned a lot of tech in my time, and this book does the best job explaining the fundamentals of a language that I've ever come across. Flanagan basically builds the whole language piece by piece, explaining the fundamentals of every aspect. There are some ...

Programming in Lua, Second Edition

Roberto Ierusalimschy

Lua.org, 2006

Good PIL book
Good examples, suggestions, and notes. Is a must have for any one looking to program in Lua.

Learning ActionScript 3.0: A Beginner's Guide

Rich Shupe, Zevan Rosser

O'Reilly/Adobe Developer Library, 2008

Explains AS2 to AS3 Migration Points
I think the book does a great job explaining all of the intricate details of OOP for experienced Actionscript users. I have used AS2 for a long time and I was very frustrated how so much had changed in AS3 and I never seemed to find a good book to explain each change. ...

DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and the Document Object Model

Jeremy Keith

friends of ED, 2005

Perfect for learning DOM
This book gots it all together well. I love the way the author writes and the way he presents a concept. Its so easy to follow and understand. This book isn't fit for a total beginner..you're going to need at least some experience with Javascript, CSS, and HTML to be ...

Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition

Dave Thomas, Chad Fowler, ...

Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2004

Excellent Book - Must Have for any Ruby Developer
First and foremost, this book isn't a beginners guide to ruby, it doesn't hold your hand from "Hello, world", and it expects you to already know the basics of programming. Also, this book isn't a tutorial, it's a reference book first and foremost, and while it *does* ...

Python Cookbook

Alex Martelli, Anna Ravenscroft, ...

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005

Worth the money
This is the only Python book I've seen to date which provides detailed and practical examples of metaprogramming idioms, and it gets five stars for that chapter way in the back alone. The chapter on sockets programming also made me laugh since Guido seems to be ...

Windows PowerShell Cookbook: for Windows, Exchange 2007, and MOM V3

Lee Holmes

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2007

It's an excellent technical survey programmers will relish.
Lee Holmes' WINDOWS POWERSHELL COOKBOOK comes from a Powershell team developer who provides hundreds of tested recipes to get Microsoft's new tool working. Over 150 recipes combine with an introduction to the Windows PowerShell scripting language to make for an ...

Classic Shell Scripting

Arnold Robbins, Nelson H.F. Beebe

O'Reilly Media, Inc., 2005

Practical and useful
Great book. The emphasis is nicely split between actually using the shell itself and the whole supporting cast of unix tools (sed, awk, cut, join, sort etc.) The idea of carefully crafting solutions using the unix toolbox mindset is key. I also like the fact he doesn't ...