New Year, Lots of New Books (and an iPhone app)!

Are you sitting down? Hopefully you are, because we've got a lot to discuss here. Since the last time we posted, we've released four more new books, and an iPhone app to boot. Speaking of iPhone apps, let's start with one of the more recent books we just published...

Head First iPhone Development
In true Head First fashion, you'll be building an app right out of the gate in the first chapter of Head First iPhone Development. Obviously, if you want to build iPhone apps, you want to sell them in the app store, so the book is geared towards getting you creating apps quickly, and also focuses on designing top-notch apps and how to navigate the app submission process. Back in November, co-author Dan Pilone taught a great workshop, Build, Compile, and Run Your iPhone App in 2 days, which covered a lot of the material in the book, namely, getting a developer who knows how to code in an Object Oriented environment coding on a Mac in Objective-C. And Tracey Pilone (co-pilot of the most prolific Head First writing couple since Kathy and Bert!) also recently posted over on the O'Reilly Community blog about her experience as a Head First author, which is a great read for any aspiring Head First authors. (You can follow them both on Twitter as @danpilone and @traceypilone.)

Head First Programming
Completely new to programming? Based on experience with Head First's successful books on programming languages, design patterns, and technologies, learners have long been clamoring for a general Head First introduction to programming for the absolute beginner. In November, Paul Barry and Head First veteran David Griffiths teamed up to finally fill that need with Head First Programming. Of course, this being Head First, you can forget "Hello, World!" and pages upon pages of dull, dry, boring text you'll never apply to real-world problems. By the time you've worked through the first few chapters of this book, you'll have written a numeric guessing game and interfaced with Twitter's API. And by the end of the book, you'll have a completely functional and attractive graphical desktop application! Though the authors use the dynamic and versatile Python language to apply and reinforce the general programming concepts illustrated in concrete examples and exercises, you'll be able to apply this knowledge to whatever language or software project you need or want to learn.

Head First 2D Geometry
Geometry is the stuff of many people's nightmares, but Head First 2D Geometry navigates the world of lines, points, and shapes in a way that will have people singing the praises of triangles in no time. We'd have more to say from authors Lindsey Fallow and Dawn Griffiths (yes, another dashing Head First duo with husband David) here, but they are already furiously working on the next book in the series, Head First 3D Geometry. In the very first chapter, we launch a space mission, which is very exciting!

Head First Data Analysis
For anyone whose job it is to make sense out of a world of data out there (and doesn't that include all of us?), author Michael Milton completed Head First Data Analysis, a learner's guide to harnessing big numbers, crunching statistics, and making good decisions. Head First Data Analysis helps you organize your data in Excel, take it further with R, find meaningful patterns with scatterplots and histograms, draw conclusions using heuristics, predict the future by experimenting and testing hypotheses, and display findings with clear visualizations. Since the book's release, Michael has delivered an O'Reilly webcast on two data analysis tricks everyone can use immediately and is drawing on the enthusiastic response and questions raised to make his next book (Head First Excel, forthcoming in spring 2010) that much more useful and effective.

And last but not least:

Head First PMP iPhone App
We get that you don't always want to carry around your copy of Head First PMP while prepping for the exam, and a dedicated iPhone app is definitely easier to use on your iPhone than our online practice exam. With the Head First PMP Exam app you can practice for the exam while standing in line, eating lunch, or just taking a break from work. It covers the same 200 questions in the print and online practice exams, so you're practice-ready wherever you go.

2010 is primed to deliver a whole set of exciting new books, from WordPress and Excel, to ActionScript and much more. Any other Head First books you'd really like to see? Drop us your suggestions here.