Build Your Own Website: A Comic Guide to HTML, CSS, and Wordpress

by Nate Cooper    (Find this book)

Build Your Own Website is a fun, illustrated introduction to the basics of creating a website. Join Kim and her little dog Tofu as she learns HTML, the language of web pages, and CSS, the language used to style web pages, from the Web Guru and Glinda, the Good Witch of CSS.

Once she figures out the basics, Kim travels to WordPress City to build her first website, with Wendy, the WordPress Maven, at her side. They take control of WordPress® themes, install useful plugins, and more.

As you follow along, you'll learn how to:

• Use HTML tags
• Make your site shine with CSS
• Customize WordPress to fit your needs
• Choose a company to host your site and get advice on picking a good domain name

The patient, step-by-step advice you'll find in Build Your Own Website will help you get your website up and running in no time. Stop dreaming of your perfect website and start making it!

How to Do Everything: Icloud, Second Edition

by Jason R Rich    (Find this book)

Maximize the latest iCloud capabilities

This all-new edition of How To Do Everything: iCloud fully covers iCloud’s versatile features and offers step-by-step directions on how to use each one, including Shared Photo Streams, the iWork for iCloud apps, and iCloud Keychain. You’ll learn how to set up iCloud, transfer and sync app-specific data, documents, files, photos, music, and other content among your computers and iOS mobile devices.

• Use iCloud with your Mac, iPhone, iPad, iPad mini, and iPod touch
• Migrate from Apple MobileMe to iCloud
• Learn new iCloud features, including Shared Photo Streams, iWork for iCloud online apps, iCloud Keychain, and much more
• Manage your digital music library and iTunes purchases with iCloud
• Use the Premium iTunes Match service
• Store and manage your digital photos with My Photo Stream
• Share your digital images with others using iCloud’s Shared Photo Streams
• Sync files and documents among computers and iOS devices
• Manage and sync your Safari bookmarks, reading list, and passwords using iCloud and iCloud Keychain
• Work with iWork for iCloud
• Learn about other cloud-based services
• Sync and share apps, app-related data, and eBooks among iOS mobile devices and your computer(s)
• Back up your iPhone and iPad with iCloud
• Stream Apple TV content to your HD TV
• Locate a Lost Mac, iPhone, iPad or iPod touch with iCloud’s Find My… feature
• Manage your iCloud email account
• Troubleshoot iCloud-related problems  --  Publisher Marketing

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

by Walter Isaacson    (Find this book)
Following his blockbuster biography of Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who created the computer and the Internet. It is destined to be the standard history of the digital revolution and an indispensable guide to how innovation really happens.

What were the talents that allowed certain inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their visionary ideas into disruptive realities? What led to their creative leaps? Why did some succeed and others fail?

In his masterly saga, Isaacson begins with Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter, who pioneered computer programming in the 1840s. He explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Bill Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim Berners-Lee, and Larry Page.

This is the story of how their minds worked and what made them so inventive. It’s also a narrative of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made them even more creative.

For an era that seeks to foster innovation, creativity, and teamwork, The Innovators shows how they happen.  --  Publisher Marketing

Core Java Volume I--Fundamentals

by Cay S. Horstmann    (Find this book)
Fully updated to reflect Java SE 7 language changes, "Core Java(TM), Volume I--Fundamentals, Ninth Edition, " is the definitive guide to the Java platform. Designed for serious programmers, this reliable, unbiased, no-nonsense tutorial illuminates key Java language and library features with thoroughly tested code examples. As in previous editions, all code is easy to understand, reflects modern best practices, and is specifically designed to help jumpstart your projects. Volume I quickly brings you up-to-speed on Java SE 7 core language enhancements, including the diamond operator, improved resource handling, and catching of multiple exceptions. All of the code examples have been updated to reflect these enhancements, and complete descriptions of new SE 7 features are integrated with insightful explanations of fundamental Java concepts. You'll learn all you need to be productive with

• The Java programming environment
• Objects, classes, and inheritance
• Interfaces and inner classes
• Reflection and proxies
• Graphics programming
• Event handling and the event listener model
• Swing-based user interface components
• Application and applet deployment
• Exceptions, logging, assertions, and debugging
• Generic programming
• Collections
• Concurrency, and more

For detailed coverage of advanced features, including the new API for file input/output and enhancements to the concurrency utilities, look for "Core Java(TM), Volume II--Advanced Features, Ninth Edition" (ISBN-13: 978-0-13-708160-8).  --  Publisher Marketing