Textbooks

Are you already using TDD, measuring test coverage, and running static code analysison your code? Maybe you're wondering whether there's a “next level” in code quality? If so, you should check out this book and learn about mutation testing. Mutation testing changes your source code and then checks back whether your unit tests can catch the changes, just like they should catch bugs. Can they? Find out how it works, and why it works in this book.

The internet feels like magic - but when it comes to creating web pages, it can feel like a dark arcane magic. Getting Started HTML takes you from absolute zero knowledge to creating your first (very basic) page!

Learn how to build a WordPress Theme with detailed step-by-step instructions starting from the ground up.

A primer for finding your learning blind spots and questioning your assumptions about how learning works. By the end of this short book, you will have transformed the ways you perceive the possibilities and process of learning.

With plenty of exercises for your personal retrospective toolbox, Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives will help you to become more proficient in doing retrospectives and to get more out of them - Foreword by Esther Derby, co-author of Agile Retrospectives: Making Good Teams Great.

"Learn Java the Hard Way" teaches you how to code by having you type in short, simple programs and getting them to work. The exercises and explanations in this book are distilled from my nearly two decades of experience teaching programming to ordinary students. Over 2,000 students have taken my classes and nine months later almost all of them knew how to code - at least a little! If you have ever bought another Java book for "beginners" and been lost by page 10, then my book is for you!

JES! on new thinking and acting, on economics for people, on fundamental human rights and how we can live the lives we choose for our selves in a joint effort society.

From the first note to playing confidently. This book covers the techniques that will progress the enthusiastic player.

Scoring Sound covers the basic approaches to sound synthesis, algorithmic composition and instrument design in SuperCollider. This tutorial has been used in workshops around the world for over a decade, and was included in the MIT Press SuperCollider Book.