FROM THE ARCHIVES OF PRAGPUB MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2014
Don’t Make Me Think (and Other Excellent Advice): Antonio on Books
by Antonio Cangiano
Antonio Cangiano is the author of the excellent Technical Blogging, and you can subscribe to his reports on new books in technology and other fields here.
New Riders just published the third edition of their iconic Don’t Make Me Think web usability book. It’s not a coding book, as many of you will know, but instead is a quick, fun, and notably important read for anyone who writes code for a living.
Two other books that caught my eye this month, both of which are bona fide programming references, are XML and Web Technologies for Data Sciences with R (no worries, JSON is covered too) and Web Development with Clojure: Build Bulletproof Web Apps with Less Code.
And to wrap up, you’ll also notice that there has been an emergence of titles dedicated to Raspberry Pi as of late. All three presented here appear to be promising for the interested tinkerer.
The Books
📚 Antonio’s Pick: Don’t Make Me Think, Revisited: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability (3rd Edition) by Steve Krug; ISBN: 0321965515; Publisher: New Riders; Publication date: January 3, 2014; Binding: Paperback; Estimated price: $26.46.
XML and Web Technologies for Data Sciences with R by Deborah Nolan, Duncan Temple Lang; ISBN: 1461478995; Publisher: Springer; Publication date: January 28, 2014; Binding: Paperback; Estimated price: $55.73.
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee; ISBN: 0393239357; Publisher: W W Norton & Company; Publication date: January 20, 2014; Binding: Hardcover; Estimated price: $12.99.
A Concise Introduction to Logic by Patrick J Hurley; ISBN: 1285196546; Publisher: Cengage Learning; Publication date: January 1, 2014; Binding: Hardcover; Estimated price: $125.98.
Statistics, Data Mining, and Machine Learning in Astronomy: A Practical Python Guide for the Analysis of Survey Data by Zeljko Ivezic, Andrew J Connolly, Jacob T VanderPlas, Alexander Gray; ISBN: 0691151687; Publisher: Princeton University Press; Publication date: January 12, 2014; Binding: Hardcover; Estimated price: $62.00.
iOS 7 Application Development in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself (5th Edition) by John Ray; ISBN: 0672337061; Publisher: Sams Publishing; Publication date: January 24, 2014; Binding: Paperback; Estimated price: $28.42.
Android for Programmers: An App-Driven Approach (2nd Edition) by Paul Deitel, Harvey Deitel, Abbey Deitel; ISBN: 0133570924; Publisher: Prentice Hall; Publication date: January 6, 2014; Binding: Paperback; Estimated price: $24.28.
Adventures In Raspberry Pi by Carrie Anne Philbin; ISBN: 1118751256; Publisher: Wiley; Publication date: January 7, 2014; Binding: Paperback; Estimated price: $13.87.
Raspberry Pi Cookbook by Simon Monk; ISBN: 1449365221; Publisher: O’Reilly Media; Publication date: January 7, 2014; Binding: Paperback; Estimated price: $23.03.
Raspberry Pi Hacks: Tips & Tools for Making Things with the Inexpensive Linux Computer by Ruth Suehle, Tom Callaway; ISBN: 1449362346; Publisher: Maker Media, Inc; Publication date: January 5, 2014; Binding: Paperback; Estimated price: $13.35.
iOS 7 Programming Pushing the Limits by Rob Napier, Mugunth Kumar; ISBN: 1118818342; Publisher: Wiley; Publication date: January 28, 2014; Binding: Paperback; Estimated price: $30.10.
Head First iPhone and iPad Development: A Learner’s Guide to Creating Objective-C Applications for the iPhone and iPad by Dan Pilone, Tracey Pilone; ISBN: 1449316573; Publisher: O’Reilly Media; Publication date: January 6, 2014; Binding: Paperback; Estimated price: $18.98.
jQuery and JavaScript in 24 Hours, Sams Teach Yourself by Brad Dayley; ISBN: 0672337347; Publisher: Sams Publishing; Publication date: January 6, 2014; Binding: Paperback; Estimated price: $19.14.
HTML5 and CSS3 All-in-One For Dummies by Andy Harris; ISBN: 1118289382; Publisher: For Dummies; Publication date: January 7, 2014; Binding: Paperback; Estimated price: $22.48.
Windows PowerShell Best Practices by Ed Wilson; ISBN: 0735666490; Publisher: Microsoft Press; Publication date: January 6, 2014; Binding: Paperback; Estimated price: $36.02.
Intro to Java Programming, Comprehensive Version (10th Edition) by Y Daniel Liang; ISBN: 0133761312; Publisher: Prentice Hall; Publication date: January 6, 2014; Binding: Paperback; Estimated price: $125.47.
Scratch 20 Programming for Teens by Jr Jerry Lee Ford; ISBN: 1305075196; Publisher: Cengage Learning PTR; Publication date: January 1, 2014; Binding: Paperback; Estimated price: $18.48.
Linked Data by David Wood, Marsha Zaidman, Luke Ruth, Michael Hausenblas; ISBN: 1617290394; Publisher: Manning Publications; Publication date: January 24, 2014; Binding: Paperback; Estimated price: $28.96.
Web Development with Clojure: Build Bulletproof Web Apps with Less Code by Dmitri Sotnikov; ISBN: 1937785645; Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf; Publication date: January 12, 2014; Binding: Paperback; Estimated price: $29.34.
Seven Web Frameworks in Seven Weeks: Adventures in Better Web Apps by Jack Moffitt, Frederic Daoud; ISBN: 1937785637; Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf; Publication date: January 10, 2014; Binding: Paperback; Estimated price: $23.54.
About the Author
Antonio Cangiano is a software developer and technical evangelist for IBM, web entrepreneur, and serial blogger. He is one of the main go-to people within IBM for advice on blogging, social media, and technical marketing. In addition, he is the Marketing Lead for Cognitive Class, an educational initiative which he helped to grow from zero to over 1 Million students. Combined, his technical blogs have attracted millions of page views and tens of thousands of subscribers, and currently generate a substantial side income for him. You can learn more about Antonio at antoniocangiano.com.
