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Writing about software

Friday, May 9, 2008

Jenny and I are at the tail end of our fourth book, Beautiful Teams, and it’s really coming out well. We’ve put together a team of authors who’ve got some really fascinating stories about building software. Each of them has written a really compelling story from his or her past career. We’ve got people writing [...]

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Head First C# – the top-selling C# book on Amazon!

Friday, March 14, 2008

Remember back in January, when Tim O’Reilly blogged about great Bookscan numbers for Head First C#? Well, Bookscan numbers don’t always match what you see on Amazon.com. Our intrepid little book has been clawing its way up the Amazon.com sales ranks. It was in the #2 position on the C# bestseller list for the last [...]

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Best readers ever!

Monday, February 25, 2008

Check out this post on the Head First C# forum. One of our readers, Styrkar, wrote a really neat program that takes any text and turns it into a nifty little animation. He did it as a way to extend the Space Invaders Lab to make a cool animation for the “Game Over” text. Okay, [...]

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Whoa…

Friday, January 11, 2008

Well, we didn’t see this coming. Check out what Tim O’Reilly says in his latest blog post: I was probably most surprised when I saw Programming WCF Services on our list of top performing books for the year. If you’re steeped in open source, you might never have heard of Windows Communications Foundation, Microsoft’s approach [...]

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Building Video Games

Tuesday, December 11, 2007

One of my favorite things about Head First C# is that Jenny and I ask our readers to do a whole lot of coding. When we started doing research for the book, one thing that really struck me about other books to help you learn C# was that I couldn’t find any book that actually [...]

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