[Year 12 SofDev] Software Text Books

[mppascoe at bigpond.com]

Jamie, 

Sadly my experience is that the computer bookshops of old in the city seem
to be hard to find.. 
Readers Feast on Swanston and Burke St downstairs next to Dick Smith has a
small section on computer books. 

I am lucky to have a networked set of local libraries with excellent online
internet searching and get various computer books sent to my local branch,
and there I check out which are the "good" ones. 

If I decide to buy one: 
What I do is use Dymocks Books like this: 
Their Online site is great, and so I use their search engine to find a book
I am after there: 
http://www.dymocks.com.au/   

and use their search engine:  eg. Flash CS3 to find: 

Eg.
http://www.dymocks.com.au/search/results.aspx?N=0&Ntk=All&Ntx=mode+matchallp
artial&Nty=1&Ntt=cs3%20flash%20classroom%20in%20a%20book   

Then I get my local Dymock's shop to order it in for me, and buy it from
them, rather than online. 


For Visual Basic, the best books I have found thus far are Adrian Janson's
VB.NET book,   (that Fatima from my school recently showed me) 

and Graeme Summers books: 

Graeme Summers book "Game Programming with Visual Basic.NET. 
ISBN-13: 9780170131254   ISBN-10: 0170131254   (and it comes with a CD) 
More Info at: web page: http://secondary.cengage.com.au/title/0170131254/633


Also Graeme Summers other Thomson book, "Programming with Visual Basic :
Introduction to Visual Basic.NET Third Edition" which also has a great CD
with it. 
ISBN-13: 9780170104104   ISBN-10: 0170104109  Webpage:
http://www.newhouse.co.nz/default.aspx?et=1&ei=366&subSiteID=352&ibcClientID
=2570400&ibcClientToken=232815511726&bookID=12200&categoryID=2510   

- Check out the free chapter PDFs on this at those websites to get an idea
of what the books are like. 


Dianne Zak VB books from USA are also really good, but very expensive to buy
here.. and so I only have one of them.  


Hope this helps, 

Regards Paul Pascoe 
IT Teacher 
St Francis Xavier College 
Beaconsfield 


-----Original Message-----
From: sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:sofdev-bounces at edulists.com.au]
On Behalf Of Owen, Jamie
Sent: Friday, 9 May 2008 8:35 AM
To: Year 12 Software Development Teachers' Mailing List
Subject: [Year 12 SofDev] Software Text Books

Just wanted to ask, does anybody know where a good computer book store is? I
live in Essendon so possibly in the city, or even a good university book
store. I want books on algorithms and books with VB projects. I have a few
but would like some with plenty of examples and exercises.
If anyone could recommend any texts, it would be much appreciated.

Cheers,

Jamie Owen
MacKillop College, Werribee.

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