texts

required textbooks

David Flanagan.
JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 5th edition. (you *must* use the 5th edition!)
San Rafael: O'Reilly and Associates. 2006.
On-line at safari (less usable than paper).
Examples are here or here.

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

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.

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