Good computer books are worth their weight in gold, because the online help in most applications leaves a lot to be desired. Unfortunately, while millions are spent programming software, considerably ...

Writing about music, a famous, impossible-to-properly-attribute saying goes, is like dancing about architecture. In 2010, anyone who dares write a book about computers runs the risk of facing a ...

My dad and I have been cleaning out the basement, and we've sorted through a bunch of old books and textbooks that I thought some of you might be interested in, if you collect old reference ...

This month, my Scientific American column described the evolution of documentation for our tech products. You no longer get a printed user guide in the box; meanwhile, the computer-book industry ...

Children of the 1980s who had an interest in technology were lucky indeed. As well as the first generations of home computers at their disposal they had the expectation to program them, something ...

There are many Internet lists of best programming and software engineering books. Amazon also has their list of best selling computer programming books. I’ve also blogged on the topic in the past: ...