The Mirror is one of the UK’s best-loved dinghies. This book teaches you how to sail and race one and how to get the best out of it.
 The Mirror dinghy is a British sailing icon and continues to evolve, keeping up with modern sailing technology and requirements. Written by the national UK Mirror Coach, this fully illustrated book covers everything you need to know including rigging, sailing theory and practice, reefing, launching and landing, capsizing, racing and transportation. It also includes four master classes which aim to get the reader to advanced racing standard.
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<li> This is the only book you’ll ever need to sail your Mirror.</li>
<li>Fully illustrated with step-by-step photography.</li>
<li>It teaches everything from the essentials of sailing theory and rigging, through faster upwind and downwind sailing, to racing tactics and how to outsmart the opposition.</li>
<li>Written by the National Mirror Coach</li>
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The Mirror Book: Mirror Sailing from Start to Finish

Sports & Outdoors

Aitken, Peter

Davison, Timothy

Water Sports

Wiley Nautical

Sams Teach Yourself C in 21 Days, Fifth Edition presents C programming techniques in a logical and easy-to-follow sequence that helps you understand the principles involved in developing C programs. Learn the basics of writing a program, then move on to arrays, pointers, disk input/output, functions, and more. This book covers the basics of C including variables, constants, conditional statements, loops, pointers, data structures, input/output, and functions. Sams Teach Yourself C in 21 Days, Fifth Edition, presents C in the most logical and easy-to-learn sequence, and is geared towards programmers learning the C language.

Sams Teach Yourself C in 21 Days, Fifth Edition (5th Edition)

Computers & Technology

Programming

Sams.

Learn how to how to use C# for Internet programming with the hands-on techniques and clear explanations. This book discusses some C# features that allow rapid development of solutions such as garbage collection, simplified type declarations, and scalability support. The book explains key concepts in a simple and practical manner. Web Forms and Web Controls usher in an elegant way to make dynamic Web pages. The book covers these topics with how-to code examples and projects. One of the newest developments in Internet programming is the use of XML and the SOAP communication protocol. .NET Web Services harness these two technologies, and is covered in later sections of the book.

Sams Teach Yourself C# Web Programming in 21 Days

Syme, Phil

Networking & Cloud Computing

Sams Publishing

Visual Basic .NET will integrate state of the art programming language features, including inheritance, polymorphism, and garbage collection. The book will explain these key concepts in a simple and practical way. Web Forms and Web Controls usher in an elegant way to make dynamic web pages. The book will cover these topics with how-to code examples and projects. One of the newest developments in Internet programming is the use of XML and the SOAP communication protocol. .NET Web Services harness these two technologies, and will be covered in some of the later sections of the book.

Sams Teach Yourself Visual Basic .NET Web Programming in 21 Days

Here is a perfect one-stop reference for anyone demanding easy access to Microsoft Office Professional information. Six concise sections address the most important features of Windows 95, as well as the latest versions of each of the applications in the suite: Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Access, and Outlook.

Microsoft Office 97 Professional 6 in 1

Wempen, Faithe

Plumley, Sue

Fulton, Jennifer

Software

Que Pub

Sams Teach Yourself C Programming in One Hour a Day, Seventh Edition is the newest version of the worldwide best-seller Sams Teach Yourself C in 21 Days. Fully revised for the new C11 standard and libraries, it now emphasizes platform-independent C programming using free, open-source C compilers. This edition strengthens its focus on C programming fundamentals, and adds new material on popular C-based object-oriented programming languages such as Objective-C. Filled with carefully explained code, clear syntax examples, and well-crafted exercises, this is the broadest and deepest introductory C tutorial available. It’s ideal for anyone who’s serious about truly mastering C – including thousands of developers who want to leverage its speed and performance in modern mobile and gaming apps. Friendly and accessible, it delivers step-by-step, hands-on experience that starts with simple tasks and gradually builds to professional-quality techniques. Each lesson is designed to be completed in hour or less, introducing and clearly explaining essential concepts, providing practical examples, and encouraging you to build simple programs on your own. Coverage includes: <ul>
<li>Understanding C program components and structure </li> <li>Mastering essential C syntax and program control </li> <li>Using core language features, including numeric arrays, pointers, characters, strings, structures, and variable scope </li> <li>Interacting with the screen, printer, and keyboard </li> <li>Using functions and exploring the C Function Library </li> <li>Working with memory and the compiler </li> </ul>
Contents at a Glance PART I: FUNDAMENTALS OF C 1 Getting Started with C 2 The Components of a C Program 3 Storing Information: Variables and Constants 4 The Pieces of a C Program: Statements, Expressions, and Operators 5 Packaging Code in Functions 6 Basic Program Control 7 Fundamentals of Reading and Writing Information PART II: PUTTING C TO WORK 8 Using Numeric Arrays 9 Understanding Pointers 10 Working with Characters and Strings 11 Implementing Structures, Unions, and TypeDefs 12 Understanding Variable Scope 13 Advanced Program Control 14 Working with the Screen, Printer, and Keyboard PART III: ADVANCED C 15 Pointers to Pointers and Arrays of Pointers 16 Pointers to Functions and Linked Lists 17 Using Disk Files 18 Manipulating Strings 19 Getting More from Functions 20 Exploring the C Function Library 21 Working with Memory 22 Advanced Compiler Use PART IV: APPENDIXES A ASCII Chart B C/C++ Reserved Words C Common C Functions D Answers

C Programming in One Hour a Day, Sams Teach Yourself

Miller, Dean

Jones, Bradley

The updated edition of the classic bestseller that taught thousands the key concepts of IBM PC and MS-DOS programming is completely restructured to appeal to a new generation of programmers, explaining how things work in accurate detail. Original.

The Peter Norton PC Programmer's Bible: The Ultimate Reference to the IBM PC and Compatible Hardware and Systems Software

Wilton, Richard

Norton,Peter

Programming Languages

Microsoft Press

Show Me: Word for Windows 6

Kinkoph, Sherry

Alpha Books

Book by Keogh, Jim, Jones, Bradley L., Aitken, Peter

Introduction to Programming with C

Keogh, Jim

Jones, Bradley L.

Que Education & Training

Microsoft's Visual J++ is hot, it's new, and it could be the easiest way ever to develop Internet applications and applets. If you're a developer and you haven't yet jumped into Java, now is the time. With the Visual J++ Programming FrontRunner in your library, you'll have the most concise, hands-on guide available for learning the new J++ visual programming environment, and even for learning Java: takes you step-by-step through the stages of application and applet creation using Visual J++; reveals how you can make Java work with database information and the JDBC API; features special tips to help C/C++ programmers master Java and Visual J++; fully explains important Java language features including classes, methods, packages, interfaces, exceptions, error handling, threads, and security; and presents detailed coverage of the powerful AWT package used to implement interface components for Java application.

Visual J++ Programming FrontRunner: The Quickest Way to Learn Visual J++, Microsoft's New Java Programming Tool

Potts, Anthony

Friedel, David H., Jr.

Coriolis Group

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