Bestsellers of 2000

Celebrate the millennium with our top 25 bestselling Computers & Internet books of the year.


1.
Java in a Nutshell Third Edition
David Flanagan
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O'Reilly
17 Dec 1999
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The 3rd edition of the well-known reference Java In a Nutshell covers the essential APIs of Java 1.2, including networking, security, input and output, and basic language and utility classes. Due to the size of the Java 1.2 API, graphics and graphical user interface classes are now examined in ... Read more

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HTML 4 for the World Wide Web (Visual QuickStart Guides)
Elizabeth Castro
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Peachpit Press
16 Nov 1999
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Whether you use a high-end authoring application like Dreamweaver, or, in the most economical fashion, you write your own code out in a text file, knowing your way around HTML comes in handy. ... Read more

3.
Designing Web Usability: The Practice of Simplicity
Jakob Nielsen
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Peachpit Press
1 Jan 2000
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Creating Web sites is easy. Creating sites that truly meet the needs and expectations of the wide range of online users is quite another story. In ... Read more

4.
The Rough Guide to the Internet (Rough Guides Reference Titles)
Angus J. Kennedy
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Rough Guides Ltd
26 Oct 2000
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The Internet moves at lightening speed and if you are new to the online world it can be a touch intimidating. However, as Angus Kennedy makes clear in ... Read more

5.
Web Design in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference (In a Nutshell)
Jennifer Niederst
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O'Reilly
1 Dec 1998
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Web Design in a Nutshell is the welcome second edition of a classic Web authoring guide. It is aimed at professionals, with the focus sharply on page layout rather than scripting or programming. Two things are outstanding. First, the book is a handy reference for core Web standards like ... Read more

6.
Dreamweaver 3 Bible
Joseph W. Lowery
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John Wiley & Sons
12 April 2000
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Dreamweaver is a favourite among web professionals thanks to its high quality output and fast visual tools. It is also highly extensible, which is ideal both for power users and third-party vendors. Author Joseph Lowery is well known for his authoritative,... Read more

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JavaScript: The Definitive Guide
David Flanagan
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O'Reilly
1 Jun 1998
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Since the earliest days of Internet scripting, Web developers have considered ... Read more

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Professional Java Server Programming with Servlets, JavaServer Pages (JSP), XML, Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB), JNDI, CORBA, Jini and Javaspaces
Danny Ayers
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WROX Press Ltd
1 Aug 1999
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Wrox specialise in books written by programmers, for programmers. This latest volume on developing Java- based web applications is no different. All 12 authors are developers and consultants--including some who have been part of Sun's own Java team.... Read more

9.
Flash 4 Bible
Robert Reinhardt
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John Wiley & Sons
11 Feb 2000
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It is a challenge to write a book that will be helpful for a wide audience without weakening its effectiveness for any one group. ... Read more

10.
Professional Active Server Pages 3.0 (Programmer to Programmer)
Richard Anderson
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WROX Press Ltd
1 Oct 1999
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At over 1,200 pages, Professional Active Server Pages 3.0 is an interesting and informative-- though not a light--read. It starts with a swift overview of ASP's historical origins in CGI and a look at Microsoft's earlier and less successful forays into page serving.But ASP 3.0 ... Read more

11.
Hacking Exposed: Network Security Secrets and Solutions (Hacking Exposed)
Stuart McClure
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Osborne/McGraw-Hill,U.S.
1 Nov 2000
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A lot of computer security textbooks approach the subject from a defensive point of view. "Do this, and you'll probably survive a particular kind of attack", they say. In refreshing contrast, ... Read more

12.
Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference
Danny Goodman
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O'Reilly
1 Jul 1998
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Danny Goodman felt that he couldn't trust any of the documentation on Dynamic HTML (DHTML) that he read (too many contradictions), so he wrote ... Read more

13.
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
Katie Hafner
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Simon & Schuster
7 Sep 1998
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Considering that the history of the Internet is perhaps better documented internally than any other technological construct, it is remarkable how shadowy its origins have been to most people, including die-hard Net-denizens! ... Read more

14.
CCNA: Cisco Certified Network Associate: Study Guide (CCNA Study Guides)
T Lammle
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John Wiley & Sons
14 Jun 2000
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A hub forwards all packets to all ports while a switch learns to associate MAC addresses with ports to make more efficient one-to-one connections. This is one of the less arcane facts you'll learn from this study guide. Here's a more arcane one: The availa... Read more

15.
UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language (Object Technology)
Martin Fowler
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Addison Wesley
13 Sep 1999
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The second edition of Martin Fowler's bestselling ... Read more

16.
Macromedia Flash 4 Magic
David J. Emberton
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New Riders
20 Jan 2000
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Most Web designers learn new techniques by pulling apart work another designer has already done, so the 21 projects in ... Read more

17.
Learning Perl (A Nutshell Handbook)
Larry Wall
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O'Reilly
1 Jul 1997
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When it comes to working a little "behind the scenes" magic for a Web site or putting together a UNIX script which interrogate databases and produce reports based on the information they contain, there are few better languages to do the job than Perl. ... Read more

18.
Java Servlet Programming (Java)
Jason Hunter
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O'Reilly
15 Oct 1998
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This book is a superb introduction to Java servlets and their various communications mechanisms. It includes deep and comprehensive coverage of the Java Servlet API, and also of HTTP, non-HTTP socket communications, Remote Method Invocation (RMI) and more.... Read more

19.
Design patterns : elements of reusable object-oriented software
Erich Gamma
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Addison Wesley
14 Mar 1995
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Design Patterns is based on the idea that there are only so many design problems in computer programming. This book identifies some common program-design problems--such as adapting the interface of one object to that of another object or notifying an object of a change in another object's state--and explains ... Read more

20.
UNIX in a Nutshell: A Desktop Quick Reference for System V Release 4 and Solaris 7 (In a Nutshell (O'Reilly))
Arnold Robins
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O'Reilly Media, Inc.
30 Sep 1999
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Unix in a Nutshell is the standard desktop reference, without question (Manpages come in a close second). With clean layout and superior command tables available at a glance, O'Reilly's third edition of Nutshell is an essential to own. Like a dictionary, Unix in a Nutshell ... Read more

21.
New Masters of Flash (Book & CD-ROM edition)
Yugo Nakamura
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friends of ED Ltd
1 Oct 2000
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New Masters of Flash is a showcase, a tutorial and an inspiration. Divided into 19 chapters each devoted to the work of a single Flash designer, it is international in scope and encompasses work ranging from the strictly commercial to the purely experimental.Each contributor begins by explaining their general ... Read more

22.
The Photoshop 5.0/5.5 Wow! Book (Wow! Books)
Linnea Dayton
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Peachpit Press
31 Dec 1999
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Walk into a design studio and you just might see the popular ... Read more

23.
Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0 (Beginning)
Brian Francis
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WROX Press Ltd
1 Dec 1999
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The 1,200-page Beginning Active Server Pages 3.0 starts predictably with an explanation of ASP--Active Server Pages--and why they are a Good Thing. It covers installing and testing IIS 5.0, and then you are ready to write your first ASP example--all in chapter one. Next you learn ... Read more

24.
In Code: A Mathematical Journey
Sarah Flannery with David Flannery
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Profile Books Ltd
20 Mar 2000
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Sarah Flannery is the Irish teenager who last year stunned the world by inventing a way of making public-key encryption much more efficient. Given that this is the underlying security technology of e-commerce, that is an achievement that many of the world'... Read more

25.
Professional XML (Programmer to Programmer)
Birbeck
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WROX Press Ltd
1 Feb 2000
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With over 1,200 pages, Professional XML is a comprehensive guide. It makes you wonder if XML has now become too big a subject for a single book. The problem is not so much XML itself but all the related technologies and applications, such as XSLT for transforming XML, SAX ... Read more



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