Textbooks

Textbook for two-quarter course on electronics. Designed around the lab projects, not the theory. Three main concepts: voltage dividers, complex impedance, and negative-feedback amplifiers. Includes blood-pressure, optical pulse monitor, EKG, and class-D power audio amplifier, among other projects. (Students in my class get free coupons.)

“Learn Object-Oriented Java the Hard Way” is a book that teaches you the object-oriented parts of Java with over 50 complete example programs that illustrate each concept step-by-step. Each concept is demonstrated with working code and explained, so that you understand what every line of code does and why it is there. After you work through this book, you should be able to understand the basic structure and function of any Java program, even large programs by professional developers. The exercises and explanations in this book are distilled from my over fifteen years of experience teaching object-oriented programming to everyday students.

A thorough grounding in basic HTML and CSS for building web pages and responsive websites. If you’re a complete beginner, or a programmer wanting to get up to speed quickly without too much detail, this book ideal. It was adapted for university students, and is tested on them each year. They’re a tough audience, so that helps improve the content.

The official companion of Finding Hidden Messages in DNA, the popular first course in Coursera's Bioinformatics sequence. Learn how biologists have begun to decipher the strange and wonderful language of DNA without needing to put on a lab coat. This book contains the first two chapters from Volume 1 of Bioinformatics Algorithms: An Active Learning Approach.

Learn CSS styling quickly using SASS framework.

Take your first step into the world of computer programming. This book assumes that you don't know anything about writing code, and teaches you the fundamental concepts that programmers use every day. You will need some basic computer skills – like downloading, opening, and saving files – but everything else will be explained here, step by step, starting from the very beginning.

(Μια βελτιωμένη έκδοση αυτού του βιβλίου διατίθεται σε έντυπη μορφή από τις εκδόσεις Γρηγόρη). Η θεωρία πολυπλοκότητας είναι ένα σχετικά νέο και συνεχώς αναπτυσσόμενο, διεπιστημονικό πεδίο έρευνας. Στο παρόν βιβλίο αναδεικνύονται οι εφαρμογές της πολυπλοκότητας στη εκπαίδευση, στη ψυχολογία και στις κοινωνικές επιστήμες.

Windows 10 Field Guide is a full-length e-book about the latest version of Microsoft Windows, aimed at those users who will upgrade from Windows 7 or Windows 8.1, or acquire Windows 10 with a new PC.

The explicit aim in this course is to enable you to decipher short Latin phrases, such as the Latin names, abbreviations, and nomenclature in biology, astronomy, medicine, law, and scholarly work. You need nothing else than these lessons, and a little enthusiasm, to learn serious Latin.

Prepare for JavaScript Interview Quickly.

A quick guide for the essential quality assurance procedure for B-mode ultrasound in clinical and research environments.