CMPT 165 References

These are considered as important as the required books for this course.

• XHTML 1.0 Reference. A reference to all of the tags and attributes in XHTML 1.0. It is available…
  • on the course web site.
  • as a ZIP file.
  • as a TAR GZIP file.
• CSS Reference. A reference to the first version of CSS. For information on CSS2, see the links section of the course web page. The CSS1 reference is available…
  • on the course web site.
  • on its home site.
  • as a ZIP file.
  • as a TAR GZIP file.
  • You may also want to consult this (terse, but complete) CSS2 reference.

There are also many other web pages that can help you through the course listed on the links page.

• Study Guide/Custom Courseware. This course material was created for CMPT 165 and you are expected to do readings from it.
• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python. This will be used when we introduce Python programming in the second half of the course. You can get it…
  • from Distance Ed in your course package.
  • by downloading it from the course web site.
  • by downloading it from its home site.

• The Internet Book, Douglas E. Comer. This book covers the inner workings of the Internet in much more detail than we will in this course. You can get it…
  • from the SFU Bookstore.
  • on reserve at the library.
  • from other book stores (ISBN 0-13-030852-8).
• Designing with Web Standards, Jeffrey Zeldman. This is an excellent book on modern web page design. Highly recommended for anyone interested in creating web pages. See the book's web page for more information. You can get it…
  • from the SFU Bookstore.
  • on reserve at the library.
  • from other book stores (ISBN 0-7357-1201-8).
• The Non-Designer's Design Book, Robin Williams. A very nice little book on visual design. Useful for much more than the web. Any edition will do, but I lile the third. You can get it…
  • from the SFU Bookstore.
  • on reserve at the library.
  • from other book stores (ISBN 0-321-19385-7).