Computing theory will only take you so far before you get your hands dirty and start dealing with the actual code. O'Reilly's Head-First Series encourages you to "dive right in," and begin learning by doing from the start.

These books assume no prior knowledge, but they are written by experts who can point you toward a comprehensive overview of fairly advanced concepts so painlessly you hardly realize how much you actually are learning

Amazon.com has not created a category for these books, which makes it difficult to list them all here. You will find more in our bookstore

A "Hack" was a simple, elegant solution to a computing problem long before the popular press began (mis)applying the term "hacker" to various unethical practices such as network intrusion. O'Reilly wants to restore the term to it's former glory, and these sure-fire recipes go a long way toward that end.

This is another series Amazon.com doesn't recognize. Without going into the gory details, I have to say this makes it hard to include the full listing here. You will find many more "Hacks" books at our bookstore.

You can't beat O'Reilly's CD Bookshelf series for value. You get one paperback from O'Reilly's top-notch collection plus several (usually five or six) complete books in searchable HTML format on the included CD.

Amazon.com doesn't include the CD Bookshelf Series in their browse categories, so you'll find more at our bookstore than we're able to list here.

I was poking around and found that there was something wrong with the CD Bookshelf Feed. It works, but it was S..L..O..W and didn't show up in the module above.

Just for you "belt and suspenders" programmers, here are some (possibly redundant ) titles: