So how does anticipation affect learning? And how can we use anticipation to enhance learning? It's something I've thought about a lot, and while we've never really codified this in Head First, we do tend to work with anticipation in...

I wonder a lot about anticipation. It's one of the strongest unexplored and unexplained feelings. Heck, I'm not even sure if it's formally a feeling, even. The effect anticipation can have on me, at least, is amazing. And, with Christmas...

I'm going to do something that makes me very nervous, because all this Christmas giving makes me -- perhaps -- a little addled in the brain. I'm going to pull back our proverbial kimono 'round here, and tell you a...

Head First JavaScript and Head First Software Development are off the press and making their way to bookstores across the country. We got our copies in the office yesterday, and they look great! It's a wonderful way to finish off...

There's a syndrome, so to speak, in guitar-player circles. It's rather unfortunately known by the acronym GAS, which stands for Guitar Acquisition Syndrome. And while that might seem sort of odd, it's completely relevant to our latest releases, Head First...

We sent out our December Newsletter last week. Sign up here to receive future newsletters via email....

Yesterday I talked a bit about how our Taiwanese and Japanese offices feel about Head First books (short version: they love them!)... Today I've got some information from our German and UK offices. The UK office manages a lot of...

We get a lot of questions about Head First translations and the sale of Head First books outside of the United States, and it got me curious about the series in other countries. Since the text tends to be casual,...

All of the code from Head First JavaScript is now available, as well as a place where you can practice JavaScript in your browser....

Andrew Stellman (co-author of Head First PMP and Head First C#) has a great post on his and Jennifer Greene's blog Building Better Software, where he tackles some JavaRanch reader questions about how Agile development processes mesh/conflict with PMP® practices...

I came across an article about how a tiny, wearable digital camera could help people with memory loss. The camera takes a photo of whatever activity the wearer is doing every 30 seconds and these are played back at...

So apparently the venerable Commodore 64 has reached its 25th birthday. Ah, the memories...well, mostly memories of bitter jealousy of my neighbor being the only one on the block to have one. (At least until our household scraped some pennies...

I've been working with an author recently who uses Mind Maps for just about everything (professional and personal). He loves them and they make sense to him. But I don't get it. Now I know that's a strong statement, I...

I just found out that Robocommunity.com is now offering a free online course for Java. They're using our book Head First Java by our series creators Kathy Sierra and Bert Bates. The instructors have post additional articles about concepts in...

You can now submit your code for the three labs in Head First C#. The winners will get some O'Reilly swag!...

Out and about this week, I noticed a flier advertising a free and open forum on Wednesday December 12th titled Totally Wired: How Technology is Changing Kids and Learning. From the description: Are digital media changing how young people learn...

The Head First JavaScript Forum is up and running. Get help with your JavaScript code and chat about the upcoming book....

Today's blog post points you to an article on the O'Reilly Radar by my colleague Brady Forrest. Brady's on the cutting edge of interesting findings since obviously he beat me to the punch on this one! From his post: Brain...

Oh December. The end of the year. The final rush. The final push. But we're just about there. Head First Software Development and Head First JavaScript are wrapping up. Which means now we can get back to the business of...

All of the code from Head First C# is now available for download or viewing in your browser. Check it out!...