Any language, project books

[hargi]

Im looking for a good book or books that can be in any language/program preferably a free one but not to fussed, that goes from start to finish of a proper project.
Im just looking for something to get my teeth into rather than a book that just tells you what a variable is and that as with them books i tend not to think of idears how to use it in practice
Hope this makes sence

 

[whitecrook]

ruby on rails theres a couple of great tuts that show how to create a database backed web frontend to a recipe collection. By entering about 25 lines of code.

 

[hargi]

Thanks whitecrook.
never heard of ruby on rails before, looks intresting, will there be much demand for this in the future

 

[whitecrook]

well if you can learn a bit of ruby, then python, and php, and maybe lesser extent perl should follow easy enough for you to pick it up much more quickly.

You can also get 'rails' for other languages as well.

Python looks really sweet.

 

[whitecrook]

well if you can learn a bit of ruby, then python, and php, and maybe lesser extent perl should follow easy enough for you to pick it up much more quickly.

You can also get 'rails' for other languages as well.

Python looks really sweet.

Oh and if it's really books your after, then any of the oreilly books are awesome.

edit stupid quote edit thing.... hmmph

 

[m0rte]

"Beginning ASP.NET 2.0 E-Commerce in C# 2005: From Novice to Professional"
I've read through this book and it guides you through building a fully functioning e-commerce website (online shop) using Visual studio express and SQL server express, both of which are free. Well worth a read for anyone looking to get into web development.

 

[LazyManc]

Thanks whitecrook.
never heard of ruby on rails before, looks intresting, will there be much demand for this in the future

It's definitely the de facto "cool" language/framework combo, it's seen a lot of uptake over the last couple of years because of its relative ease and supposed "elegance".

Bear in mind though most of the Rails tutorials will expect some knowledge of programming, if you're completely new to it then you might be better off with PHP / C#.

 

[Una]

I can recommend "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" if your interested in lisp or scheme like languages..

K&R The C programming language is well worth having as well.

Those are the only two programming books I could not have done without.