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Computer Books jgo Has Read

Ratings	Author/Editor		Author/Editor			Title
	Carma	McClure			The	3 Rs of Software Automation: Re-engineering, Repository, ReUsability
	Dimitris N.	Chorafas				4th & 5th Generation Programming Languages: Integrated Software, DataBase Languages, & Expert Systems
		4th Dimension				4th Dimension 6.5 Design Reference
	Matthew S.	Gast				802.11 Wireless Networks
		Apple				Accessing Hardware from Applications
	Roy G.	Saltman				Accuracy, Integrity, and Security in Computerized Vote-Tallying
	Maher	Ali				Advanced iOS 4 Programming: Developing Mobile Applications for Apple iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch (669 pages; QA76.8; I64; A448; 2010)
	Marc J.	Rochkind				Advanced UNIX Programming
	Alistair	Cockburn				Agile Software Development
		Luebke				Algorithms (U of VA CS332; 2000 Fall)
	Alan	Parker				Algorithms & Data Structures in C++
	Robert	Sedgewick				Algorithms in C (2002; parts1-4)
	Robert	Sedgewick				Algorithms in C++ (2002; part5)
		FSU				FSU COP4531 Algorithms slide show
		Apple				Animation Types and Timing Programming Guide
	Ben	Laurie	Peter	Laurie		Apache: The Definitive Guide
		Apple				Apple OpenGL Programming Guide for Mac OS X
		Apple				Application Architecture OverView
		Apple				Archiving & Serialization Programming Guide for Cocoa
	Ralph	Grishman				Assembly Language Programming for the Control Data 6000 Series and the Cyber 70 Series (COMPASS)
	Don	Inman	Kurt	Inman		Atari Assembler
		Apple				Attributed Strings Programming Guide
	Bert	Altenberg	Alex	Clake & Philippe Moughin		Become an XCoder: Start Programming the Mac Using Objective-C
	Wei-Meng	Lee				Beginning iOS 4 Application Development (617 pages; QA76.8; I862; L44)
	Wei-Meng	Lee				Beginning iPad Application Development (544 pages; TK; 5103.4885; L44; 2010)
	Michael	Lopp				Being Geek (303 pages)
		Apple				Bonjour Overview
	Clive	Finkelstein	Peter H.	Aiken		Building Corporate Portals with XML
	Rob	Flickenger				Building Wireless Community Networks
	David A.	Taylor				Business Engineering with Object Technology
	Adam	Denning				C at a Glance
		Weber Systems				C Language: User's Handbook
	M.I.	Bolsky			The	C Programmer's Handbook
	Brian W.	Kernighan	Dennis M.	Ritchie		C Programming Language
	Bindu R.	Rao				C++ & the OOP Paradigm
	Len	Dorfman				C++ by Example: Object-Oriented Analysis, Design & Programming
	Ira	Pohl				C++ for FORTRAN Programmers
	Dai	Clegg	Robert	Barker & Barbara Barker		CASE Method Fast-Track: A RAD Approach
		Apple				CFNetwork Programming Guide
		Apple				CFStream Reference
	Shishir	Gundavaram				CGI Programming
		Apple				Cocoa Application Tutorial Using Objective-C
		Apple				Cocoa Design Patterns
		Apple				Cocoa Drawing Guide (twice)
		Apple				Cocoa Event-Handling Guide
		Apple				Cocoa Fundamentals Guide
		Apple				Cocoa Objects
	Aaron	Hillegass				Cocoa Programming for Mac OS X
	Janet	Ruhl			The	Computer Consultant's Guide
	Deborah G.	Johnson				Computer Ethics
		IEEE Computer Society		ACM		Computing Curricula 2001: Computer Science
		Apple				Core Animation CookBook
		Apple				Core Data Programming Guide
	Cay S.	Horstmann	Gary	Cornell		Core Java 1.1: Advanced Features
		"Misof"				Top Coder "Computational Complexity" section 1
		"Misof"				Top Coder "Computational Complexity" section 2
	Douglas J.	Wolf				Crystal Reports 6 for Dummies
	M. Carla	deAngelis				Data Modeling with ERwin
	Adam	Drozdek				Data Structures and Algorithms in C++ (2005)
	Michele M.	Burlew				DeBugging SAS Programs
	Edward	Yourdon				Decline & Fall of the American Programmer
	Bjarne	Stroustrup			The	Design & Evolution of C++
	James E.	Thornton				Design of a Computer: Control Data 6600
	Erich	Gamma	Richard	Helm, Ralph Johnson & John Vlissides		Design Patterns: Elements of ReUsable Object-Oriented Software
	Charles	Richter				Designing Flexible Object-Oriented Systems with UML_ (380 pages; 005.117)
	Chris	Stevens				Designing for the iPad: Building Applications that Sell (328 pages; QA76.8; I863; S74; 2011)
	Cynthia	Gibas	Per	Jambeck		Developing Bio-Informatics Computer Skills
		Apple				Device File Access Guide for Serial Devices
		Apple				Device File Access Guide for Storage Devices
	Andre	Persidsky				Director for Macintosh
	Paul	Albitz	Cricket	Liu		DNS & Bind
	Paul	Albitz	Cricket	Liu		DNS & BIND in a NutShell
		Apple				DNS Service Discovery Programming Guide
		Apple				Document-Based Applications Overview
	Bob	LeVitus	Andy	Ihnatko		Dr. Macintosh's Guide to the On-Line Universe
		w3schools.com				_DTD Tutorial_
	Barbara	Garson			The	Electronic SweatShop
	Uyless	Black				Emerging Communications Technologies
	Jonathan	Blossom				Engines of Creation: Programming Virtual Reality on the Macintosh
	Richard	Monson-Haefel				Enterprise Java Beans (446 pages)
	Aeleen	Frisch				Essential System Administration
	David	Hunter				Essentials of C++
		Apple				Event-Driven XML Programming Guide for Cocoa: XML Parsing
	Patrick	McDaniel	Matt	Blaze et alii		EVEREST: Evaluation and Validation ofElection-Related Equipment, Standards and Testing
	Kent	Beck				eXtreme Programming Explained
	William C.	Wake				eXtreme Programming Explored
		Apple				FireWire Device Interface Guide
	Dan Parks	Sydow				Foundations of Mac Programming
	Pierre	Chatelier				From C++ to Objective-C
		Metrowerks				GameWerks ACCEL 1.0a2 Reference
		Apple				Garbage Collection Programming Guide
		LDS Family History Department				GEDCOM XML Specification Release 6.0
		GENTECH Lexicon group				Genealogical Data Model: A Comprehensive Data Model for Genealogical Research and Analysis
	Scott Robert	Ladd				Genetic Algorithms in C++
	Davie E.	Davis				GIS for Everyone
		Aspray		Vardi et alii		Globalization & Off-Shoring of Software
	Steven	Levy				Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
	Donald	Burleson				High Performance Oracle Data WareHousing
	Tony	Reveaux	Gene	Steinburg		How to Do Everything with iMovie2
	William Robert	Stanek				HTML Java CGI VRML SGML Web Publishing UnLeashed
		Apple				I/O Kit Device Driver Design Guidelines
		Apple				I/O Kit Fundamentals
	Steven	Levy				Insanely Great: The Life & Times of Macintosh, the Computer that Changed Everything
		Apple				Inside Macintosh: Files
		Apple				Inside Macintosh: InterApplication Communication
		Apple				Inside Macintosh: Macintosh ToolBox Essentials
		Apple				Inside Macintosh: Memory
		Apple				Inside Macintosh: More Macintosh ToolBox
		Apple				Inside Macintosh: Networking
	Tracy	LaQuey	Jeanne C.	Ryer	The	Internet Companion
	Thomas H.	Cormen	Charles E.	Leiserson & Ronald L. Rivest		Introduction to Algorithms (2000)
	Adam	Osborne				Introduction to Microcomputers, volumes 0 & 1
	Anany	Levitin				Introduction to the Design & Analysis of Algorithms (2003)
	James A.	Brannan	Blake	Ward		iOS SDK Programming: A Beginner's Guide (483 pages; QA76.76; O63; B727)
	Vandad	Nahavandipoor				iOS 4 Programming CookBook (594 pages; QA76.76; O63; N34; 2011)
	Joe	Conway	Aaron	Hillegass		iPhone Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide (381 pages; 004.16)
	Stewart S.	Miller				IPv6: The Next Generation Internet Protocol
	Richard	Wagner	Kim	Daniels, G. Griffin, C.D. Haddad, & J. Nasr		JavaScript UnLeashed
	Peter	van der Linden				Just Java
		Apple				Kernel Extension Programming Topics
		Apple				Kernel Programming Guide
		Apple				Key-Value Coding Programming Guide
		Apple				Key-Value Coding Programming Guide 2010-01-20
		Apple				Key-Value Observing 2009-08-14
	Tere	Parnell				LAN Times Guide to Building High-Speed Networks
	Dave	Mark				Learning C++ on the Macintosh
		Apple				Learning Cocoa
	Randall L.	Schwartz	Larry	Wall		Learning Perl
	Mark	Lutz	David	Ascher		Learning Python (575 pages)
	Lora D.	Delwiche	Susan J.	Slaughter	The	Little SAS Book
	John E.	McNamara				Local Area Networks
	Bob	LeVitus	Shelly	Brisbin		Mac Answers!: Certified Technical Support
		Apple				Mac OS X ABI Function Call Guide
		Apple				Mac OS X ABI Mach-O File Format Reference
	Samuel A.	Litt				Mac OS X Administration Basics
	David L.	Hart				Mac OS X Web Server HandBook
	Arthur	Naiman		et alii	The	Macintosh Bible
	Nilson	Neuschotz				Macintosh MultiMedia: From Mystery to Mastery
	Dan Parks	Sydow				Macintosh Programming Techniques
	Guy	Kawasaki			The	Macintosh Way
	Gerald V.	Post	David L.	Anderson		Management Information Systems
	Ken	Whitaker				Managing Software Maniacs
		Apple				Mass Storage Device Driver Programming Guide
	Daniel J	Cronin				Mastering Oracle
	Charles	Leiserson	Erik	Demaine		MIT SMA5503/6.046J "Introduction to Algorithms" video class lectures and notes
	Daniel J	Cronin				Mastering Oracle
		Apple				Memory Management Programming Guide for Cocoa (twice)
		Apple				Memory Management Programming Guide for Core Foundation
	Dan Parks	Sydow				Metrowerks CodeWarrior Programming
	Christopher	Evans				Micro Millennium
	Tim	Pyron	Ira	Brown, G. Cicala, H. Feddema, J. Habraken, L. Monsen & Jo Ellen Shires		Microsoft Project 98
		Apple				Model Object Implementation Guide
	Dan Parks	Sydow				More Mac Programming Techniques
	Frederick P.	Brooks			The	Mythical Man-Month_
	Dirk	Hanson			The	New Alchemists
		Apple				Notification Programming Topics for Cocoa
		Apple				NSNetServices and CFNetServices Programming Guide
		Apple				NSPersistentDocument Core Data Tutorial
		Apple				NSXML Concepts: Tree-Based XML Programming Guide for Cocoa
	Phillip J.	Schneider				NURB Curves
	Rick	Decker	Stuart	Hirshfield	The	Object Concept
	Peter	Coad	Edward	Yourdon		Object-Oriented Analysis
	Grady	Booch				Object-Oriented Design with Applications
		Apple				Object-Oriented Programming with Objective-C
	John L.	Connell	Linda	Shafer		Object-Oriented Rapid Prototyping
	Ivar	Jacobson	Magnus	Christerson, Patrik Jonsson & Gunnar Oevergaard		Object-Oriented Software Engineering: A Use Case Driven Approach (Objectory)
	Maher	Awad	Juha	Kuusela & Jurgen Ziegler		Object-Oriented Technology for Real-Time Systems (OMT, Fusion & Octopus)
	Terry	Halpin				"Object-Role Modeling (ORM/NIAM)" _HandBook on Architectures of Information Systems_
		Apple			The	Objective-C Programming Language
		Apple			The	Objective-C 2.0 Programming Language
		Apple			The	Objective-C 2.0 Runtime Programming Guide
	Jeff	Hawkins	Sandra	Blakeslee	The	_On Intelligence_ (245 pages)
	Mason	Woo		et al.		OpenGL Programming Guide
		Apple				OpenGL Programming Guide for Mac OS X
	Andrew W.	Tanenbaum	Albert S.	Woodhull		Operating Systems Design and Implementation (1030 pages; 005.43)
	George	Koch	Kevin	Loney		Oracle: The Complete Reference (3rd edition version 7.2)
	Scott	Urman				Oracle 8 PL/SQL Programming
	Robert J.	Muller				Oracle Developer/2000 HandBook
	Neil	Rhodes	Julie	McKeehan		Palm OS Programming
	Kathleen	Jensen	Nicklaus	Wirth		Pascal User Manual & Report
	Tom	de Marco	Timothy	Lister		Peopleware
		Apple				Performance Overview
	Janet	Valade				PHP & MySQL for Dummies
	Luke	Welling	Laura	Thomson		PHP and MySQL Web Development
	Larry	Ullman				PHP for the World Wide Web
	Kent	Beck	Martin	Fowler		Planning eXtreme Programming
	Michael	Wesemann				Plot Documentation
	Bill O.	Gallmeister				Posix.4 Programming for the Real World
	Shlomo	Weiss	James E.	Smith		POWER & PowerPC
	Jim	Trudeau	Carl	Constantine, Jeremy Roschelle & Joe Zobkiw		PowerPlant Advanced Topics
	Jim	Trudeau	Harold	Ekstrom et al.	The	PowerPlant Book
	Greg	Dow	Paul	Lalonde, E.Scouten, M.Henderson, A.Rappoport & S.Chernicoff		PowerPlant Core Classes Reference
	Eric	Scouten	Avi	Rappoport & Steve Chernicoff		PowerPlant Network Classes Reference
	Paul	Lalonde	Greg	Dow, Avi Rappoport & Steve Chernicoff		PowerPlant PowerTalk Library Reference
	Paul	Lalonde	Avi	Rappoport & Steve Chernicoff		PowerPlant Threads Reference
	Steve	Oualline				Practical C++ Programming
		Apple				Predicate Programming Guide
		Metrowerks				Principles of Programming
	Frank L.	Friedman	Elliot B.	Koffman		Problem Solving, Abstraction, & Design Using C++
	Patrick	Alessi				Professional iPhone and iPad DataBase Application Programming (353 pages; 005.265)
	Shy	Cohen	Tom	Mitchell, A. Gonzalez, L. Rodrigues & K. Hammil		Professional Java Fundamentals
		Apple				Programmer's Introduction to the Macintosh Family
	Nathaniel S.	Borenstein				Programming as if People Mattered
	Jon L.	Bentley				Programming Pearls (1986, 1999)
	Bradford	Nichols	Dick	Buttlar & Jacqueline Proulx Farrell		Pthreads Programming
	Mark	Lutz				Python Pocket Reference
	Elaine	Weinmann				Quark XPress for Macintosh 4
		Apple				Quartz 2D Programming Guide
	Daniel T.	Larose	Chun	Jin		Ready, Set, Run!: A Student Guide to SAS Software
	Martin	Lippert	Stefan	Roock		Refactorings in Large Software Projects
	Esther	Dyson				Release 2.0
		Apple				Resolution Independence Guidelines
		Apple				Resource Programming Guide
	Edward	Yourdon				Rise & Resurrection of the American Programmer
	Amy S.	Glass		et alii		SAS Language & Procedures: Introduction
	D.D.	Cockrell		et alii		SAS User's Guide: Basics
	Jacqueline F.	Allen		et alii		SAS/STAT User's Guide
		Apple				Scroll View Programming Guide
		Apple				Search Kit Concepts/Programming Guide
	Mark	Nelson				Serial Communications: A C++ Developer's Guide
	Marshall T.	Rose			The	Simple Book (SNMP)
	William	Pugh			The	Skip Lists: A Probabilistic Alternative to Balanced Trees (pdf)
		ACM		IEEE-CS, Australian CS, British CS, IP Society of Japan		Software Engineering 2004: Curriculum GuideLines for Under-Graduate Degree Programs in Software Engineering
	Tracy	Kidder			The	Soul of a New Machine
		Apple				String Programming Guide for Cocoa
	Gary DeWard	Brown				System 370 Job Control Language
	Nicklaus	Wirth				Systematic Programming
		Apple				Table View Programming Guide
	Pete	Loshin				TCP/IP for Everyone
	Craig	Hunt				TCP/IP Network Administration
	Rogers	Cadenhead				Teach Yourself Java 2
	Diane	de Baun				Teach Yourself AutoCAD version 11
	Donald	Doherty	Jerry	Ablan & John Jung		Teach Yourself M$ FrontPage 97 in a Week
	Julie C.	Meloni				Teach Yourself MySQL in 24 Hours
	Karen	Winters	David D.	Busch		Teach Yourself PhotoShop 3.0 for the Mac
	John E.	McNamara				Technical Aspects of Data Communications
		Apple				Threading Programming Guide
	Andre	LaMothe	John	Ratcliff, Mark Seminatore & Denise Tyler		Tricks of the Game-Programming Gurus
	Jon	Benton	john	calhoun, S. Cheshire et al.		Tricks of the Mac Game-Programming Gurus
		DigiNet				Troubleshooting & Maintaining a Local Area Network
	Martin	Fowler	Kendall	Scott		UML Distilled
		Apple				Undo Architecture
	W. Richard	Stevens				UNIX Network Programming: Networking APIs, Sockets & XTI
	Evi	Nemeth	Garth	Snyder, Scott Seebass & Trent R. Hein		UNIX System Administration HandBook
	Roger	Jennings	Matthew	Harris, Susann Novalis & Stan Leszynski		Using Access 95
		MacroMedia				Using Extreme 3D
	Mike	McKelvy	Ronald R.	Martinsen, Jeff Webb & Bob Reselman		Using Visual BASIC 5
		Apple				Value Transformer Programming Guide 2007-04-06
	Joseph	St.Sauver				VAX/VMS Reference Guide
	Per	Cederqvist		et alii		Version Management with CVS
		Apple				View Programming Guide for Cocoa
	Ralph	Grabowski				Visio 4 for Everyone
	Bob	LeVitus	Jeff	Evans		WebMaster Macintosh
		Apple				Window Programming Guide for Cocoa
	Rick	Decker	Stuart	Hirshfield		Working Classes: Data Structures & Algorithms Using C++
		Apple				Xcode 2.0 User Guide
		Apple				Xcode Build System Guide
		Apple				Xcode Build Setting Reference
		Apple				Xcode Project Management Guide
	Simon	St. Laurent				XML: A Primer
		w3schools.com				XML Schema: XSD Tutorial
		w3schools.com				XML Schema Reference
		w3schools.com				XPath Tutorial
		w3schools.com				XSL-FO Tutorial
		w3schools.com				XSLT Tutorial

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