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Database Design for Mere Mortals

Michael J. Hernandez

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Database Design for Mere Mortals. The first afternoon I spent reading and puzzling through that book was worth an entire semester of computer science classes on the topic — and caused me to fall in love with relational databases. With special mentions to K&R as well as The Manager’s Path.

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There are just so many... Headfirst series (JavaScript, HTML, jQuery... all of them) Discover Meteor Refactoring: improving the design of existing code Database design for mere mortals MIT books (SICP, Algorithms) Oh, and of course... Human Interface Guidelines by Apple. One of the best UX books on app design. All books are ebooks for me, so this list is impossibly long.

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