Required books (3)
- Learning Ruby by Michael Fitzgerald
- $23.09 at Amazon.
- Short enough to read, and thorough enough to be useful.
- Build Your Own Ruby on Rails Web Applications by Patrick Lenz
- $26.37 at Amazon.
- This book covers barely enough Ruby to get by, but it's a good tutorial for Rails.
- Professional Ajax, 2nd Edition (Programmer to Programmer) by Nicholas C. Zakas, Jeremy McPeak, and Joe Fawcett
Recommended books
Ruby and Rails books:
- Sams Teach Yourself Ruby in 21 Days by Mark Slagell
- $26.39 at Amazon.
- Sams books vary greatly in quality, but this is a good one.
- Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide, Second Edition by Dave Thomas
- $29.67 at Amazon.
- If you really want to get into Ruby, this is the book to get. I think there's too much of it for our needs, though.
- Agile Web Development with Rails by Dave Thomas, David Hansson, Leon Breedt, and Mike Clark
- $26.37 at Amazon.
- Similarly, this is the book for Rails; but it's more than we need for CIS 700.
Other Ajax books:
- Sams Teach Yourself Ajax in 10 Minutes by Phil Ballard
- $11.24 at Amazon.
- A really nice 'starter' book, but no more than that. Chapters 15 and 16 are available for you in Blackboard.
- Ajax Patterns and Best Practices by Christian Gross
- $44.99 at Amazon.
- An advanced book, with useful perceptions about patterns in general, trends in Ajax development, and various web server and client techniques for achieving RESTful URL's.
- Prerequisite knowledge should include familiarily with interfaces in object-oriented languages such as Java, basic software design patterns for object oriented languages, knowledge of the HTTP and HTML standards, and a rudimentary understanding of ow to make asynchronous (Ajax) calls in Javascript using a browser's XmlHttpRequest object.
- The book's page at Apress has source code and other useful information.
Second Life books:
- A Beginner's Guide to Second Life by v3image
- $24.99 at Amazon.
- Almost certainly the best book for beginners.
- Second Life: The Official Guide by Michael Rymaszewski, Wagner James Au, Mark Wallace, Catherine Winters, Cory Ondrejka, Benjamin Batstone-Cunningham
- $23.09 at Amazon.
- The most complete book available. Has a small amount about the programming API.
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