Web Design.md

Why read books when you can learn things the hard way? Because good books are written by people with experience, people who learnt from their mistakes. No point in comitting the same mistakes and learning from them, when you can read a book and do better. Be better informed so that you make mistakes that very few have yet to come across.

HTML, CSS & JavaScript

Learn

Starting with the best introductory books to HTML, CSS & JS by Jon Duckett, just so that I am not caught unaware by any unexpected JS in the other books. Then moving on to the high quality publishers of content on Web Design, because as a beginner I should be learning from the best. Then everything else, keeping in mind that even if I learn just one thing that's extremely useful or thoughtful from an entire book, that's still great.

1. HTML and CSS: Design and Build Websites by Jon Duckett (Official Site)
2. JavaScript and JQuery: Interactive Front-End Web Development by Jon Duckett (Official Site)
3. A Book Apart Library
4. The Smashing Library
5. Learn to Code HTML & CSS by Shay Howe (Useful links at the end of each post.)
6. Learning Web Design by Jennifer Niederst Robbins (Official Site)
7. Bulletproof Web Design by Dan Cederholm
8. Handcrafted CSS (Video Edition) by Dan Cederholm
9. CSS Cookbook by Christopher Schmitt
10. CSS Mastery by Andy Budd
11. CSS: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland
12. The Book of CSS3 by Peter Gasston
13. CSS Secrets by Lea Verou
14. Designing with Web Standards by Jeffrey Zeldman
15. Implementing Responsive Design by Tim Kadlec
16. Head First Mobile Web by Lyza Danger Gardner, Jason Grigsby
17. Adaptive Web Design by Aaron Gustafson (Official Site)
18. Designing with Progressive Enhancement by Todd Parker, Scott Jehl, Maggie Costello Wachs, Patty Toland
19. Don't Make Me Think by Steve Krug
20. The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
21. Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products by Nir Eyal
22. Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days by Jake Knapp
23. Designing the Obvious by Robert Hoekman Jr.
24. The Elements of Typographic Style by Robert Bringhurst
25. Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton
26. Type on Screen by Ellen Lupton
27. Introducing HTML5 by Bruce Lawson, Remy Sharp (Official Site)
28. HTML5: Up and Running by Mark Pilgrim (also Dive Into HTML5)
29. Web Form Design by Luke Wroblewski
30. Ordering Disorder by Khoi Vinh
31. Pro HTML5 Accessibility by Joshue O Connor
32. CSS: The Definitive Guide (4th Edition) by Eric A. Meyer
33. Eloquent JavaScript by Marijn Haverbeke (Official Site)
34. Learning JavaScript by Shelley Powers
35. JavaScript Cookbook by Shelley Powers
36. JavaScript & jQuery: The Missing Manual by David Sawyer McFarland
37. JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford
38. Effective JavaScript by David Herman
39. Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja by John Resig, Bear Bibeault, Josip Maras
40. Maintainable JavaScript by Nicholas C. Zakas
41. High Performance JavaScript by Nicholas C. Zakas
42. High Performance Web Sites by Steve Souders
43. Even Faster Web Sites by Steve Souders
44. High Performance Browser Networking by Ilya Grigorik
45. DOM Scripting by Jeremy Keith
46. JavaScript Patterns by Stoyan Stefanov
47. Professional JavaScript for Web Developers by Nicholas C. Zakas
48. Pro JavaScript Techniques by John Paxton, John Resig, Russ Ferguson
49. JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan
50. The Principles of Object-Oriented JavaScript by Nicholas C. Zakas
51. HTML5 Media by Shelley Powers
52. The Definitive Guide to HTML5 Video by Silvia Pfeiffer
53. HTML5 Multimedia by an Devlin (Official Site)
54. Universal Design for Web Applications by Wendy Chisholm, Matt May
55. Pro HTML5 Programming by Peter Lubbers, Frank Salim, Brian Albers
56. Using the HTML5 Filesystem API by Eric Bidelman
57. HTML5 Canvas by Steve Fulton, Jeff Fulton

Stay Up-to-date

• Front-end Rescue: How to keep up to date on Front-End Technologies (GitHub)
• Mozilla Developer Network
• Mozilla Hacks: Web developer blog
• A Book Apart Library
• A List Apart
• The Smashing Library
• Treehouse
• Code School
• Tuts+
• JavaScript Garden & wtfjs: Just the quirky parts of JS
• Book searches: "html css", "html5" "css3", "design" books, "web design", "ux", "ui"

Advanced

• W3C: HTML 4 Specification
• W3C: CSS 2 Specification
• W3C: HTML 5 Specification
• W3C: CSS Snapshot: There's no CSS3 yet, and unlike CSS2, the CSS Working Group chose to adopt a modular approach, which means the specification is being developed incrementally. This profile includes only specifications that are considered stable, but that doesn't mean the spec is frozen nor does it guarantee web browser adoption. So in a loose sense, this is the latest stable snapshot of the CSS3 spec.
• W3C: All Standards and Drafts
• ECMA International:
  • Standard ECMA-262: ECMAScript Language Specification (WD)
  • Standard ECMA-402: ECMAScript Internationalization API Specification (WD)

People

Divya Manian • Lea Verou

Projects

Atom • Chart.js • CodeMirror • highlight.js • Prism • Visual Studio Code

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Misc.

• Khan Academy

Next

• Git, Shell (Bash), Python, PHP, Ruby, C
• Go, Java, Swift, Rust, C++

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http://web.archive.org/web/20160306080111/https://css-tricks.com/bookshelf/

https://designforhackers.com/blog/best-web-design-books/

https://gist.github.com/aahan/6eb85df53d3305fc842d

z. Temp.md

HTML & CSS

• The Best Way to Learn HTML
• The Best Way to Learn CSS
• The Best Way to Learn...
• How To Stay Up To Date With Web Technology
• How to keep up to date on Front-End Technologies
• Web Development Reading List (Newsletter)
• A Scalable CSS Reading List
• Web Fundamentals: Best practices for modern web development

Git

• Try Git: By Code School & GitHub
• Ry's Git Tutorial
• Good Resources for Learning Git and GitHub
• Git FAQ
• Pro Git
• Version Control with Git by Jon Loeliger, Matthew McCullough
• Git for Teams by Emma Jane Hogbin Westby
• Mastering Git by Jakub Narebski
• Git Workflow (search google for popular git workflows)

Web Servers & Related

Internet Protocols

• What Every Web Developer Should Know About HTTP
• HTTP: The Definitive Guide
• High Performance Browser Networking: What every web developer should know about networking and web performance
• The TCP/IP Guide: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Internet Protocols Reference

Apache

• Apache Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for Apache Administrators
• Apache Security
• Apache Documentation - Security Tips
• ModSecurity Handbook: The Complete Guide to the Popular Open Source Web Application Firewall

PHP

• Learning PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, CSS & HTML5: A Step-by-Step Guide to Creating Dynamic Websites
• Programming PHP
• PHP Objects, Patterns, and Practice
• PHP Cookbook: Solutions & Examples for PHP Programmers
• PHP: The Right Way
• PHP Best Practices
• Survive The Deep End: PHP Security
• WordPress With PHPStorm - Rarst
• PHP Style Guide
• Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide by php[architect]

MySQL

• MySQL Cookbook: Solutions for Database Developers and Administrators
• High Performance MySQL: Optimization, Backups, and Replication
• MySQL High Availability: Tools for Building Robust Data Centers

Ruby

• Learn to Program: A very basic, ground-level tutorial for the beginner to Ruby. By Chris Pine.
• Why's (Poignant) Guide to Ruby
• Programming Ruby: The Pragmatic Programmers' Guide: The original tome and complete reference for Ruby. By Dave Thomas and Andy Hunt (also known as The Pickaxe).
• Ruby User's Guide: A guide to learning Ruby (with code examples) by Matz, the creator of Ruby. Translated into English.
• Metaprogramming Ruby 2: Program Like the Ruby Pros
• Design Patterns in Ruby
• Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby: An Agile Primer
• Eloquent Ruby
• Ruby Cookbook
• The Ruby Programming Language: Quick read for any unknown info
• Ruby Koans
• Ruby on Rails

Misc. Notes

• In general, books on 'design patterns', and 'cookbooks', are a good read when learning any programming language.
• Google for projects like Ruby Koans, Python Koans, Lisp Koans, etc. for the prog. language learning.
• Algorithms and data structures, strong knowledge of operating systems, AI, how to build compilers, cryptography, parallel programming
• Exploring Everyday Things with R and Ruby (Book)
• Machine Learning for hackers (uses R)
• Programming Languages | Hammer Principle
• For Haskell: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4369962/what-are-some-good-example-haskell-projects
• C++: Follow Sergey Zubkov and read his post about Google's C++ Style Guide