texts

required textbooks

Chris Sells, Ian Griffiths.
Programming WPF, Second Edition, Reilly and Associates. 2007.
On-line at safari (less usable than paper).

Jesse Liberty, Donald Xie.
Programming C# 3.0, Fifth Edition , Reilly and Associates. 2007.
On-line at safari

Don Norman.
The {Design, Psychology, Psychopathology} of Everyday Things.
New York: Basic Books, 1988. (All variant titles are the same.)

Edward Tufte.
Envisioning Information.
Chesire, CT: Graphics Press, 1990.

David Turnbull.
Maps are Territories: Science is an Atlas.
Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1989.

Electronic Course Reserves.
Some readings will be available here for TAMU students.

Regular Course Reserves.
Some books you really need to have in your hands, because the printing is special. These will be available on reserve in the library. A directory of these is here for TAMU students.


recommended textbooks

Johannes Itten.
The Art of Color. -or- The Elements of Color
New York: Wiley, 1997.

Judith Bishop.
C# 3.0 Design Patterns , Reilly and Associates. 2007.
On-line at safari


software installs

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 (make sure to install C# language support)

Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 SP1

Microsoft Silverlight

Silver Light Tools for Visual Studio 2008 SP1

designed for mozilla 1+ and ie 6+
an information ecology lab production