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| Education |
Bay Area Colleges and Universities that offer degree or certificate programs in technical communication:
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| Training |
Technical communication training programs or services in the Bay Area:
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| Books |
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| General Books |
- Surviving the Baby Boomer Exodus: Capturing Knowledge for Gen X and Y Employees, Ken Ball & Gina Gotsill
- Complete Idiot's Guide to Technical Writing, Krista Van Laan and Catherine Julian, Alpha Books, 2001.
- Handbook of Technical Writing, Gerald Alred, Charles Brusaw, and Walter Olihu, Seventh Edition, St. Martin's Press, 2003.
- How to Communicate Technical Information: A Handbook of Software and Hardware Documentation, by Jonathan Price and Henry Korman, Addison-Wesley, 1993.
- Managing Your Documentation Projects, by JoAnn T. Hackos, Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1994.
- Writing Software Documentation, by Thomas T. Barker, Allyn & Bacon, 1998.
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| HTML/XML Books |
- HTML & XHTML: The Definitive Guide, by Chuck Musciano & Bill Kennedy, O'Reilly, 2002.
- HTML For the World Wide Web, Fifth Edition, by Elizabeth Castro, PeachPit Press, Berkeley, CA, 2003.
- WebMaster In a Nutshell, by Stephen Spainhour & Robert Eckstein, Third Edition, O'Reilly, 2002.
- Web Style Guide: Basic Design Principles for Creating Web Sites, Patrick Lynch & Sarah Horton, Yale University Press, 1999.
- XML - A Primer, by Simon St. Laurent, M & T Books, 1999.
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| Java/Javascript Books |
- The Book of JavaScript, by David Thau, No Starch Press, 2000.
- Java in a Nutshell, by David Flanagan, Fourth Edition, O'Reilly, 2001.
- JavaScript for the World Wide Web, by Tom Negrino & Dori Smith, Fourth Edition, Peach Pit Press, 2001.
- Thinking in Java, by Bruce Eckel, Third Edition, Prentice Hall, 2002.
- Documenting APIs Writing Developer Documentation for Java™ APIs
and SDKs, by James F. Bisso and Victoria Maki (available only from
http://www.bitzone.com).
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| Online Help Books |
- Designing and Writing Online Documentation: Help Files to Hypertext, by William K. Horton, Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1994.
- RoboHelp for the Web by John Hedtke and Brenda Huettner, Wordware Publishing, 2002.
- Standards for Online Communication, by JoAnn T. Hackos and Dawn M. Stevens, Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997.
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| Style Guides Books |
- The Microsoft Manual of Style for Technical Publications, Third Edition, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Press, 2003.
- Read Me First! A Style Guide for the Computer Industry, Second Edition, Sun Microsystems, Sunsoft Press, 2003.
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| Unix Books |
- Complete Idiot's Guide to Unix by Bill Wagner, Alpha Books, 1998.
- Learning the Vi Editor by Linda Lamb and Arnold Robbins, O'Reilly, 1998.
- Learning the Unix Operating System by Jerry D. Peek, Grace Todino, and John Strang, O'Reilly, 1997.
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