Research Guides: Computer Science: Books

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Suggested eBooks

The Art of Game Design
Describes the deepest and most fundamental principles of game design, demonstrating how tactics used in board, card, and athletic games also work in video games.
How Linux Works
Learn how Linux boots, how the kernel manages devices, device drivers, and processes, how networking, interfaces, firewalls, and servers work, how development tools work and relate to shared libraries, how to write effective shell scripts.
HTML5 and JavaScript Projects: Build on Your Basic Knowledge of HTML5 and JavaScript to Create Substantial HTML5 Applications
Covers important programming techniques and HTML, CSS, and JavaScript features to help you build projects with images, animation, video, audio and line drawings.
HTML5, JavaScript, and JQuery 24-Hour Trainer
How to build real-world HTML5 apps--both web-based and mobile--in combination with JavaScript, jQuery, and CSS/CSS3.
Practical Web Design: Learn the Fundamentals of Web Design with HTML5, CSS3, Bootstrap, JQuery, and Vue.js
A step by step guide for beginners to create interactive and dynamic websites from scratch.
Professional JavaScript for Web Developers
Written for intermediate-to-advanced programmers, this book jumps right into the technical details to help you clean up your code and become a more sophisticated JavaScript developer.

Suggested Print Books

Building JavaScript Games
Call Number: QA76.76.C672 E55 2014
Location: Second Floor Stacks
Teaches game programming through a series of engaging, arcade-style games that quickly expand your JavaScript and HTML5 skills.
Distributed and Cloud Computing
Call Number: QA76.585 .H83 2012
Location: Second Floor Stacks
Explains how to create high-performance, scalable, reliable parallel, distributed, and cloud computing systems.
Hello, Startup: A Programmer's Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams
Call Number: QA76.6 .B75 2016
Location: Second Floor Stacks
Practical, how-to guide that consists of three parts: Products, Technologies, and Teams.
Python Programming: Become an Expert at Python Today with Step by Step Instructions for Beginners
Call Number: QA76.73.P98 G63 2016
Location: Second Floor Stacks
Become an expert at Python today with step by step instructions for beginners.

RamCat

Search RamCat for eBooks, eJournals, DVDs, Government documents, and more.

Suggested Keywords

artificial intelligence, computer science, computer games, computer graphics, computer networks, design, computers, computer programming, computer security, computer systems, database management, electronic data processing, hardware, information science, information theory, software, OSI reference model, validation, vulnerability, web site development, web site design, cloud computing, nodes, framework, protocols, simulators

Other Catalogs

Govinfo.gov
Provides free online access to official United States Federal Government publications
WorldCat
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Global catalog that indexes collections from 72,000 participating libraries in 170 countries.

Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
The finding tool for electronic and print publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government.
Google Books
Search the world's most comprehensive index of full-text books.

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