Brett McLaughlin

http://www.twitter.com/bdmclaughlin

Author, educator, curious and driven geek

Areas of Expertise:

  • java
  • xml
  • object-oriented analysis and design
  • learning theory
  • cognitive science

Brett McLaughlin is a bestselling and award-winning non-fiction author. His books on computer programming, home theater, and analysis and design have sold in excess of 100,000 copies. He has been writing, editing, and producing technical books for nearly a decade, and is as comfortable in front of a word processor as he is behind a guitar, chasing his two sons and his daughter around the house, or laughing at reruns of Arrested Development with his wife.

Brett spends most of his time these days on cognitive theory, codifying and expanding on the learning principles that shaped the Head First series into a bestselling phenomenon. He's curious about how humans best learn, why Star Wars was so formulaic and still so successful, and is adamant that a good video game is the most effective learning paradigm we have.

PHP & MySQL: The Missing Manual PHP & MySQL: The Missing Manual
by Brett McLaughlin
Second Edition November 2012
Print: $34.99
Ebook: $27.99

PHP & MySQL: The Missing Manual PHP & MySQL: The Missing Manual
by Brett McLaughlin
November 2011
Ebook: $27.99

What Is HTML5? What Is HTML5?
by Brett McLaughlin
July 2011
Ebook: $0.00

What Is Node? What Is Node?
by Brett McLaughlin
July 2011
Ebook: $0.00

Java and XML Java and XML
by Brett McLaughlin , Justin Edelson
Third Edition December 2006
Print: $49.99
Ebook: $39.99

Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design Head First Object-Oriented Analysis and Design
by Brett McLaughlin , Gary Pollice , David West
November 2006
Print: $49.99
Ebook: $39.99

Head Rush Ajax Head Rush Ajax
by Brett McLaughlin
March 2006
Ebook: $31.99

Home Theater Hacks Home Theater Hacks
by Brett McLaughlin
November 2004
Print: $24.95
Ebook: $19.99

Java 5.0 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook Java 5.0 Tiger: A Developer's Notebook
by David Flanagan , Brett McLaughlin
June 2004
Print: $34.99
Ebook: $27.99

Java & XML Data Binding Java & XML Data Binding
by Brett McLaughlin
May 2002
Print: $34.95

Building Java Enterprise Applications Building Java Enterprise Applications
by Brett McLaughlin
March 2002
Print: $39.95

Java and XML Java and XML
by Brett McLaughlin
Second Edition August 2001
OUT OF PRINT

Java and XML Java and XML
by Brett McLaughlin
June 2000
OUT OF PRINT

Great JavaScript: Level 1 Great JavaScript: Level 1
by Brett McLaughlin
January 2010
Video: $19.99

Great Go: Level 1 Great Go: Level 1
by Brett McLaughlin
December 2009
Video: $34.99

Great Java Great Java
by Brett McLaughlin
November 2009
Video: $59.99

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Webcast - Effective Communication: Making your point in a video-game culture
May 19, 2009
Duration: Approximately 60 minutes. Cost: Free The book is dead; the play is dead; the lecture is dead. Everywhere you turn, you've heard about the demise of classic forms of communication, from the written word to the spoken. So how do you communicate...

Brett McLaughlin

"There are solid guidelines within the book which portray OOA as flexible in the real world - in a way which is much more readable than many OOA&D texts out there. For those unfamiliar with Head First Labs, this would be a novelty - for those familiar with Head First Labs, this is expected."
--Taran Rampersad, KnowProse.com