The Head first series of books are a guided approach to learning innovatively through books. The publishers claim themselves to be producing introductory instructional books. The methods applied by the authors are meant for the reader to understand, rather than sift through information and then apply reason and inference to understand the concept. The Head first series explains concepts and mechanism using three methods – Stories; eye grabbing visual content; out of the box written matter like examples, jokes, puzzles etc. The emphasis is on introducing concepts through various perspectives is to make it simpler; and help understanding to seep eloquently into the reader’s mind.
The series came out first to only cover programming and software engineering. Today, the series of books covers a range of topics like mathematics, science and business. Bert bates and Kathy Sierra came out with their first book – Head First Java in 2005. On the India online shopping website, homeshop18.com – a range of books/ topics are available including – Data Analysis, HTML, PMP, Statistics, Algebra and more. Buy books online for prices ranging from Rs.300 -500, and avail 10-30% off on the MRP.
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