Most books on computer code are dense tomes, like text books: Often full of useful information, but daunting. Just thinking of the wall of words makes me faint! But not Ducket's books. They deliver the same useful info the other books do, but Ducket makes it seem so much easier because he consider's the user's experience.
Opening a book of wall-to-wall words full of computer code is not super inviting. Opening a page with a beautiful photo printed to the edge with a smaller amount of info, but still relevant to the illustration is so much more inviting! I looked forward to turning each page to see how the design and illustrations would reinforce the written material.
I was already familiar with HTML, CSS, Javascript and jQuery when I read the books, so I can't attest to how good the exercises presented in the book work. Despite that I learned computer code from library books in the '90s (BASIC on a Commodore 64. The good ol' days.) I can barely fathom doing so today. With the proliferation of coding boot camps (such as the one I work for, WP Code Camp) and courses on web design at community colleges, I would rather learn from a person than a book. But I love having something physical and tactile to refer back to. Even after all these years, I forget pretty basic CSS stuff now and again, and having a book on my desk with a tab in it is quicker than Googling and searching for the right answer.
I occasionally just pick these books up and thumb through them for pleasure. They're the only coding books I've ever owned that I pick up and read for enjoyment. Sometimes I'll run into something that I'd forgotten, and it gives me new inspiration to try the technique out. This happened recently with the CSS property "flexbox." I had been using Bootstrap for a few years because it makes responsive web design so easy. But the Ducket book reminded me that I can achieve much the same effect without consuming the client's resources loading up Bootstrap from a CDN. It's way better! I've been using it ever since.
On a side note, I think it's weird that Ducket has virtually no social media presence. Or any other type of presence on the web, as far as I can tell. No actual website, no Facebook, no Twitter. I would imagine an author would have it in his or her best interest to have a digital footprint, especially if he writes books about websites. But I digress.
These are both great books. By the set, it's cheaper that way. You won't regret it.
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A MUST HAVE COMBINATION
I have a deep love and obsession for computers and games (PC Versions). With that said, I recently have started teaching myself to code starting with Python. After getting very well acquainted with Python and all of its possibilities, I fell into a deeper love and obsession with computers. Fast-forward a few months, I have been playing EVE Online for years and I decided I wanted to create a website for my in-game corporation. After some research into different books to learn from, I came across these books by Jon Duckett and all I can say is WOW WOW WOW! The layout of this book is absolutely incredible. Not to mention for some who may know absolutely NOTHING about coding, will learn how to start building the foundation of their first website in as little as a day or two of hard study. I got these books about 4 days ago now and I am already 3/4 into the HTML&CSS book and have already built a solid foundation for my EVE corp. I look forward to the next few days because once you get past the first 9 chapters (which is the basics of HTML5) you start learning and coding CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) which is were the true fun and creativity in designing your site starts. I have attached a screen shot of part of my code for my site to show what I've learned so far and lets not forget HOW EASY it really is, (ATLEAST MUCH EASIER THAN LEARNING PYTHON LOL)Anyways, if your wanting to learn how to build your own site along with Java ect, buy this book, TRUST ME, you won't be disaapointed. For some who are hesitant, you could buy just the first book HTML&CSS and see how it works for you.NOTE: Unless you have prior coding experience in HTML&CSS, DO NOT BUY THE Javascript&Jquery book and try to start learning from there because you will be let down, why? Javascript and Jquery contains A LOT of code that requires one to have HTML&CSS knowledge. You will see in the Javascript & jQuery Book, the very beginning chapter will even tell you to learn HTML&CSS first and trust me, you'll see why.BOTTOMLINE, stop reading my comment and just 1-click buy this book set.ALSO, spend the extra money and buy the hardbacks, you will know why when you get them and feel the quality of them. I can say that with certainty because I introduced these to a friend of mine and he went cheap and bought the paperback versions and when we compared, he was highly disappointed he did not buy the hardbacks.
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