Step by Step for Developers

Designed to teach experienced programmers how to use a product, language, or technology that is new to them—through step-by-step instructions and exercises. These books are for new-to-topic developers—people with significant programming skills who are seeking to expand their knowledge or discover what's new in the topic space.

The step-by-step learning approach is linear; later chapters build on earlier ones. The content provides the reader with a taste of real-world programming practice and experience by offering pragmatic, skill-building exercises and tasks, plus downloadable practice files and code samples.