Recommendations

Books

Sometimes, you still want a book instead of that online documentation, right? Well, these are a couple of books on computer subjects which I can recommend. In the section below this, there's a list of the books I used for studying.
Most can them can be bought via the Internet, for instance via www.bookshop.co.uk in Britain (Click the link to see the book in the book shop for info about author, ISBN etc).

Graphics in general:
"Encyclopedia of Graphics File Formats"- compendium of graphics file standards.
"Computer Graphics for Designers and Artists" - computer graphics seen with the eye of the artist.

Micrografx Graphics Software:
"The Comprehensive Guide to Micrografx Webtricity" - The only book till now on Picture Publisher 7, Simply 3D 2 and the other programs from Graphics Suite 2 (excl. Flowcharter) / Webtricity

HTML, JavaScript and Homepage Design:
"HTML - The Definitive Guide" - O'Reilly in top form as always.
"10 Minute Guide to HTML" - quick'n'dirty introduction on a qualified level.
"The Official Internet Explorer 4 Site Builder Toolkit" - covers lots of interesting things, and not only Internet Explorer
"JavaScript - The definitive Guide" - O'Reilly's JavaScript book
"JavaScript - Pocket reference Guide" - yet another O'Reilly one - this one is a tiny little book, which is best if you already know JavaScript but just want to be able to check the syntax fast
"Dynamic HTML - the Definitive Reference" - O'Reilly's DHTML book

Microsoft Office and Visual Basic For Applications:
"Visual Basic for Applications Unleashed" - many, many, many pages, but they're stuffed with useful examples.
"Word 97 Macro & VBA Handbook" - lots of exellent examples.
"Office 97 Visual Basic Progarmmer's Guide" - the official one.
"VB & VBA in a Nutshell" - a real O'Reilly high quality book.


VRML:
"Virtus VRML Starterkit" - includes the Virtus editor on the CD-ROM.
"VRML 2.0 Sourcebook" - the ultimate reference book.

Study books

-these are the books I used:

Oracle:
"Developing Oracle Forms Applications" - the only book on the market entirely focusing on Oracle Forms.
"Teach Yourself PL/SQL in 21 Days" - learn from this, but don't don't use it as a manual.
"Fundamentals of Database Systems" Elmasri's classic. May seem a bit "dusty", but once you get into it, it's actually good.

Computer- and Network Architecture:
"Computer and Network Organization" - lots of info on few pages. A European book - the author doesn't get paid for the number of pages.
"Structured Computer Organization" - Tanenbaum's classic

Operating Systems:
"Operating Systems Concepts" - I know not everybody agrees with me, but I actually think this book is excellent.

C++:
"Object-oriented programming in C++" - not the best C++ book I've seen.
"Teach Yourself C++ in 21 days" - I bought this one, because I didn't like the above mentioned C++ book. This one is better.

Networks:
"Computer Networks" - Tanenbaum goes networks.

Distributed Operating Systems:
"Distributed Operating Systems" - yet another Tanenbaum - excellent, serious yet funny as usual.

Mainframe:
"Exploring IBM's new age mainframes" - well, well... a bit too focused on IBM and too little focused on mainframes in general.

Compiler theory:
"Compilers - Principles, Techniques and Tools" - the Dragon Book... Urgh!

IT-strategy:
"Strategic Management and Information Systems" - I didn't like this book, but it's probably because I didn't like the subject; the book is actually rather well written.

Thesis: Microsoft Agent, Office Assistants
"The Media Equation" - about how people treat and interact with their computer as if it was a human being.
"Microsoft Agent Software Development Kit" - how to make your own agent, to program it for applications, webpages and Office 2000.
"Human Computer Interaction" - all the basics on how we interact with our computers

Usually all books issued by O'Reilly are excellent... I can NOT recommend books from the "For Dummies" series or the "No experience required" series. "Teach Yourself ** in 21 Days" and "** Unleashed" are usually good, but often use more pages than necessary to explain.

Magazines

None of these are on-line magazines - these are websites representing real, paperbased magazines...

• Computers Arts - this magazine is computer graphics' answer to the thick fashion magazine. Still with a slight overweight of Macintosh stuff, but the illustrations are often gorgeous. Take a look at it!
• Windows Sources - serious stuff for Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows NT users.
• Microsoft Office & Visual Basic for Applications Developer Journal - a very specialized magazine. Too many adds in it, and too many reprints of Microsoft press releases, but the rest is fine.
• PC Magazine - to keep your knowledge up-to-date on other subjects than your own little nifty one.

On-line magazines

• Windows NT Online Magazine (Windows NT Magazine is a paperbased magazine in connection with this site).
• Windows Internet Magazine

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