Coding: The Handbook for Information Technology

By Knute Axelson

Each of the 20 chapters in this overview of current technology practices is dedicated to a different technology that is commonly used today, including programming languages, Web technologies,... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0976627906
• ISBN13: 9780976627906
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Blue Line Pr
• Length: 536 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.3" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

very affordable bible of all of today's most in demand skills

As an IT consultant, I found this book an indispensable guide for anyone who needs to quickly familiarize themselves with a new language/technology. While you might think that a single book covering 20 technologies is an overly ambitious scope, it is in fact the brevity of each topic that is this book's strength. The book assumes that the reader is well versed in some technologies and computers in general and then cuts right to the heart of each specific skill-set. Rather than 20 books of 300-500 pages each, this book summarizes the basic framework and essential knowledge required to quickly become productive in some of the most widely used techonolgies. I've often found myself wishing I could just get a "Cliffs Notes" version of many of the 5 pound books I end up needing to read quickly for work - this is finally it.

An Excellent Survival Guide for the Technology Professional.

This book is a wonderful companion and reference guide for many of the programming languages a technology professional might encounter. Each programming language is broken into a chapter and begins with a short synopsis of the language, a few facts (which serve as excellent reminders of a languages essential characteristic), and a short program with an explanation of what each line means. Reading this book won't make you a subject matter expert in any one of the programming languages it covers. However, the book is an excellent reference tool that will help you understand the basics of many programming languages and help you remember the syntax and structure of a language you haven't used recently or are only vaguely familiar with. The Swiss army knife approach taken by the author's to cover as many languages as possible is done quite well, making this book a bible for any technology consultant.