(2006-05-09) Head Rush Series

Kathy Sierra writes about the new Head Rush series. The Head Rush format uses the same learning principles as the Head First books, but differs from Head First in breadth/focus of topic, prereqs, and length. Where a Head First book does a complete BIG topic from start to finish, Head Rush zooms in to a more focused piece--in this case, AJAX. So the Head Rush Ajax book, for example, doesn't try to teach you every frickin' detail of JavaScript. It's a faster read than a typical Head First book, but with the same approach to helping you load the key concepts into your brain in the quickest, least painful way. At 400+ pages, this definitely doesn't quality as a Thin Book!

Jan'2007 update: it's interesting to me that they haven't release any other books in this series yet.