Books & Screencasts

Compendious Thunks are short animations and coding screencasts built with just the right balance of information and accessible presentation. Patterns are living, active things — your learning should be as well! Watch Now

You know what’s even better than playing games? Programming your own! Make your own online games, even if you’re an absolute beginner. Let your imagination come to 3D life as you learn real-world programming skills with the JavaScript programming language—the language used everywhere on the web. This new edition is completely revised and takes advantage […]

Polymer lets you create your own tags in complete isolation from what the rest of the web page is doing. The result is rock-solid, reusable code that just works™. Learn how to get the most out of this exciting new platform. Buy Now

Strategies to accelerate development with Backbone.js. This is not the definitive guide to Backbone.js. This is not an introduction to Backbone.js. This is the book you read after you read the tutorial. This is the book that teaches you to kick ass with the hottest Javascript MVC framework around. This is Recipes with Backbone. Co-written […]

In Dart for Hipsters, you follow project-based chapters demonstrating real-world problems solved with Dart. Each project serves as the foundation for deeper discussion of defining features of Dart, such as its support for functional programming. As you reinforce your understanding of Dart, you’ll move on to more complex projects which, in turn, spur more complex […]