books by No Starch Press     books:       FIRST LEGO League: The Unofficial Guide3 reviews James Kelly, Jonathan Daudelin No Starch Press, 2008 Team members and coaches, you NEED this book! Oh how I WISH I had this book three years ago when I started my team. It covers just about everything you need to know about starting and keeping a First LEGO League team. From basic teamwork strategies to building and programming tips and tricks, this book has it all. It is the perfect compliment to the official coach's guide provided by FLL. It's informative and easy to read without being ...             Forbidden LEGO: Build the Models Your Parents Warned You Against!25 reviews Ulrik Pilegaard, Mike Dooley No Starch Press, 2007 More than just an instruction book I've enjoyed with this book not only creating some of the creations it has, but also reading the LEGO design-related stories, guidelines and ideas the authors have written through all the chapters. The pages format and design are very attractive and the building steps are perfectly structured, fun and easy to understand. For me, a must-have being a LEGO fan.             The TCP/IP Guide: A Comprehensive, Illustrated Internet Protocols Reference26 reviews Charles Kozierok No Starch Press, 2005 YOU are the Winner... ...if you get this book. This guy takes you through the overview of the internet, and deep into the jungle of protocols, technologies, servers, clients, and nitty gritty details, without loosing you on the way! And the language..., and the explanations..., if you don't "get it" from this book, you should really consider doing something else :-).             Wicked Cool PHP: Real-World Scripts That Solve Difficult Problems3 reviews William Steinmetz, Brian Ward No Starch Press, 2008 Become A PHP WaRRioR!!! 'Wicked Cool PHP: Real-World Scripts That Solve Difficult Problems' is a fantastic PHP cookbook that is written exactly the way I like books to be written: - it's fun to read and learn from - content is broken up logically at the right points - layout and design is a joy on the eyes and brain - length is around 200 pages which is within the 2-3 (hundred) range that I like most books to be ...             The Essential Blender: Guide to 3D Creation with the Open Source Suite Blender32 reviews Roland Hess No Starch Press, 2007 Essential Indeed! The Essential Blender Guide is exactly that: essential! It is a great companion book for those who have purchased the introductory guide, based around Blender 2.3. This new book is worth every penny for the chapter on compositing alone. Along with available on-line help, you will be well on your way to becoming a Blender pro when you've finished this book. The included CD contains sample files ...             The Unofficial LEGO Builder's Guide36 reviews Allan Bedford No Starch Press, 2005 Delivers what is promises A true labor of love, this is the most comprehensive guide around! A must-have for LEGO devotees.             The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Idea Book: Design, Invent, and Build7 reviews Martijn Boogaarts, Jonathan A. Daudelin, ... No Starch Press, 2007 Great book for NXT fans This book contains very clear instructions and diagrams for NXT-G program. The sample robots are creative and very well designed. You can feel the intelligence behind when you build. I especially like the binding of this book, so it can lay open while you build. So I will probablly purchase more book from this press. In fact I have pre-order one. One thing I doesn't like is one of the ...             The Unofficial LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Inventor's Guide12 reviews David J. Perdue No Starch Press, 2007 Fantastic manual to the Mindstorms NXT I'm a coach of a FIRST LEGO League team and I bought this book to help my son "get to the next level." I am making this book mandatory for every team member next season! It is informative, yet easy to read. It covers all the bases from good robot design to programming explanations. I can't recommend it enough!             The IDA Pro Book: The Unofficial Guide to the World's Most Popular Disassembler1 review Chris Eagle No Starch Press, 2008 The IDA Pro Book Review I was able to pick up a pre-released copy of The IDA Pro book at Defcon in the vendor area, thanks to Adam from No Starch. This book is not an introduction to reverse engineering, its a hard core manual for IDA Pro. IDA Pro is a critical weapon in any reverser's arsenal, so proficiency in this tool is paramount to your success in reverse engineering. If you are new to IDA Pro you need this book, ...             Hacking: The Art of Exploitation, 2nd Edition51 reviews Jon Erickson No Starch Press, 2008 One of the best technical books I have ever read. One of the best technical books I have ever read. Starts simple and ramps up very fast building on material already presented. Goes in detail in showing many different "low level" exploitation techniques. I.e. buffer overflow, format string abuse, etc.             Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Company102 reviews Owen W. Linzmayer No Starch Press, 2004 Great History of Apple This is a great book that talks about the History of Apple Computer. I couldn't put it down and it was fun walk down memory lane of Apple computers and tech history.             Write Great Code: Volume 1: Understanding the Machine17 reviews Randall Hyde No Starch Press, 2004 Great information... But do you really need it? This is a great book but I have to disagree with the overall viewpoint. I've been doing embedded programming for a while and if that's all I'd ever done I would totally agree that understanding low level concepts helps write better code. However, I also write a lot of code in C#. People who normally use high level languages such as C#, VB.Net, or JAVA are probably not going to benefit much ...             Steal This Computer Book 4.0: What They Won't Tell You About the Internet48 reviews Wallace Wang No Starch Press, 2006 Expand your web insights! I love this book, however if you're a know-it-all on computers and the internet in general, then maybe not for you. The strength of this manuscript comes in the form of teaching everyday users about the complexities of the computer world and what goes on behind the scenes. We all have to start somewhere to gain this type of information, and this is a fantastic book to begin down that path. Very ...             Ubuntu For Non-Geeks: a Pain-Free, Project-Based, Get-Things-Done Guidebook4 reviews Rickford Grant No Starch Press, 2008 Lives up to its name I have toyed occasionally with both Red Hat and Ubuntu over the years, but I definitely meet the definition of "non-geek." Installing these operating systems before always required some degree of struggle, and not uncommonly (especially with some earlier distros) I would simply fail. But that has changed. The current 8.04 version of Ubuntu partnered with this book is frankly outstanding. ...             The Artist's Guide to GIMP Effects: Creative Techniques for Photographers, Artists, and Designers6 reviews Michael J. Hammel No Starch Press, 2007 Neil Monks MyMac.com Review GIMP, or the GNU Image Manipulation Program to give it its proper name, is a graphics-editing program broadly similar to Adobe Photoshop in terms of functionality. The GIMP is an open source program that can be freely downloaded and installed on most computers, including maps. But on the downside it doesn't come with a manual, so figuring out how to use GIMP can be tricky. But 'The Artist's ...             Webbots, Spiders, and Screen Scrapers: A Guide to Developing Internet Agents with PHP/CURL11 reviews Michael Schrenk No Starch Press, 2007 barry naice! This book is simply awesome. You will need to come armed with at least a basic knowledge of php, but everything is pretty straight forward. The projects are well explained and applicable to a wide range of projects that you might be getting yourself into.             Silence on the Wire: A Field Guide to Passive Reconnaissance and Indirect Attacks25 reviews Michal Zalewski No Starch Press, 2005 Zalewski deals in the minutia Silence on the Wire is not your typical security book detailing the latest application exploits or generalized security trends and attack prevention. Zalewski deals in the minutia. If you were to construct a Bell Curve of security knowledge and concepts, you would need to chop out a large portion of this graph and simply include the upper threshold, in which Zalewski thrives on the ...             The LEGO MINDSTORMS NXT Zoo!: A Kid-Friendly Guide to Building Animals with the NXT Robotics System7 reviews Fay Rhodes No Starch Press, 2008 A personal Lego Mindstorms NXT Zoo review Hi everyone, I received this book last week Monday. When I bought this book, I was very sceptical about this book because a peacock on wheels on the cover was a little strange. But I also build a Giraffe with a fifth middle leg based on the book from Benjamin Erwin "Creative Projects with Lego Mindstorms (RIS kit)" which seems also unusual at that time. Also the book of Benjamin Erwin is also ...             Absolute FreeBSD: The Complete Guide to FreeBSD, 2nd Edition10 reviews Michael W. Lucas No Starch Press, 2007 Great FREEBSD Reference 'Absolute FreeBSD: The Complete Guide to FreeBSD' is another hit in the No Starch collection of books which have their own unique layout and style of writing associated with the authors publishing with them. With around 700 pages of content you will learn the ins and outs of this Unix-like operating system and see how powerful it is and what it can do for you. If you use FREEBSD on the job or ...             Practical Packet Analysis: Using Wireshark to Solve Real-World Network Problems6 reviews Chris Sanders No Starch Press, 2007 A must have for packet analysis This book is well written and easy to read and understand. 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