Skip to Main Content
Head First Programming
book

Head First Programming

by David Griffiths, Paul Barry
November 2009
Beginner content levelBeginner
440 pages
8h 31m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Content preview from Head First Programming

Praise for other Head First books

“Kathy and Bert’s Head First Java transforms the printed page into the closest thing to a GUI you’ve ever seen. In a wry, hip manner, the authors make learning Java an engaging ‘what’re they gonna do next?’ experience.”

Warren Keuffel, Software Development Magazine

“Beyond the engaging style that drags you forward from know-nothing into exalted Java warrior status, Head First Java covers a huge amount of practical matters that other texts leave as the dreaded ‘exercise for the reader....’ It’s clever, wry, hip and practical—there aren’t a lot of textbooks that can make that claim and live up to it while also teaching you about object serialization and network launch protocols.”

Dr. Dan Russell, Director of User Sciences and Experience Research IBM Almaden Research Center (and teaches Artificial Intelligence at Stanford University)

“It’s fast, irreverent, fun, and engaging. Be careful—you might actually learn something!”

Ken Arnold, former Senior Engineer at Sun Microsystems Coauthor (with James Gosling, creator of Java), The Java Programming Language

“I feel like a thousand pounds of books have just been lifted off of my head.”

Ward Cunningham, inventor of the Wiki and founder of the Hillside Group

“Just the right tone for the geeked-out, casual-cool guru coder in all of us. The right reference for practical development strategies—gets my brain going without having to slog through a bunch of tired, stale professor-speak.”

Travis Kalanick, Founder of ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.
Start your free trial

You might also like

Head First C

Head First C

David Griffiths, Dawn Griffiths
Head First C#, 4th Edition

Head First C#, 4th Edition

Andrew Stellman, Jennifer Greene
Head First Android Development, 3rd Edition

Head First Android Development, 3rd Edition

Dawn Griffiths, David Griffiths
Programming C# 10

Programming C# 10

Ian Griffiths

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9780596806682Supplemental ContentErrata Page