Follow the author as he prepares for the 2012 Philadelphia Fight For Air Climb up the 50 story Bell Atlantic Tower. You too... More > can gain the cardiovascular benefits that as little as 7 minutes of Stair Climbing can provide to you each day. < Less

Whether you are brand new to programming in general or coming to Java from another language, John Smiley's Learn to Program... More > with Java offers a truly approachable tutorial designed with the beginner in mind. Covering Java syntax and essential programming concepts, this text can be used at home to simulate a semester's worth of Java study. Like Smiley's previous titles, the salient feature of this text is the author's scenario-based presentation style. Instead of addressing the reader directly, Smiley simulates the experience of about 18 first-semester programming students facing Java for the first time. As the students develop a grade calculation project in Java (and improve it with object-oriented features later on), basic questions are raised and answered with the reader "overhearing" the author's consistently clear and patient explanation of key programming concepts. < Less

In these pages you will find the story of my life, an average shmuck who’s looking for that special formula to make life... More > meaningful. In a very haphazard way, I explored the different avenues to fulfillment, or perhaps more exactly, I willingly responded to the blow of the wind. It cost me several years of my life, my only chance at education, my relationship with my parents and my formerly acute senses, but it is my belief that God himself had a plan for my life, and I was just thick-sculled enough to need those times to learn how wrong my choices could be. In the end, He directed me to Himself, and I’ve never been the same since... < Less

An Introductory text on C# using Visual C# 2005 Express Edition. The easiest technical book you'll ever read. Open it up and... More > see for yourself. Join Professor Smiley's C# class as he teaches essential skills in programming, coding and more. Using a student-instructor conversational format, this book starts at the very beginning with crucial programming fundamentals. You'll quickly learn how to identify customer needs so you can create an application that achieves programming objectives---just like experienced programmers. By identifying clear client goals, you'll learn important programming basics---like how computers view input and execute output based on the information they are given---then use those skills to develop real-world applications. Participate in this one-of-a-kind classroom experience and see why Professor Smiley is renowned for making learning fun and easy. < Less

The easiest technical book you'll ever read. Open it up and see for yourself. Join Professor Smiley's Visual Basic 6 class... More > as he teaches essential skills in programming, coding and more. Using a student-instructor conversational format, this book starts at the very beginning with crucial programming fundamentals. You'll quickly learn how to identify customer needs so you can create an application that achieves programming objectives---just like experienced programmers. By identifying clear client goals, you'll learn important programming basics---like how computers view input and execute output based on the information they are given---then use those skills to develop real-world applications. Participate in this one-of-a-kind classroom experience and see why Professor Smiley is renowned for making learning fun and easy. < Less

An Introductory text on C# using Visual C# 2010 Express Edition. The easiest technical book you'll ever read. Open it up and... More > see for yourself. Join Professor Smiley's Visual Basic.Net class as he teaches essential skills in programming, coding and more. Using a student-instructor conversational format, this book starts at the very beginning with crucial programming fundamentals. You'll quickly learn how to identify customer needs so you can create an application that achieves programming objectives---just like experienced programmers. By identifying clear client goals, you'll learn important programming basics---like how computers view input and execute output based on the information they are given---then use those skills to develop real-world applications. Participate in this one-of-a-kind classroom experience and see why Professor Smiley is renowned for making learning fun and easy. < Less

Extinction List is a science fiction thriller where Russian biological weapon scientists accidentally release a deadly plant... More > fungus that threatens to kill off most life on earth.

This plant fungus was lying dormant in pre-historic “amber” and now threatens all animal life including humans.

Through deceit and espionage the anti-American government of Iran obtains both the source of the plant fungus along with its cure while attempting to hold the world hostage with it.

Could this be the end of the world and the extinction of mankind, just as it was for the dinosaurs in pre-historic times? < Less

An Introductory text on C# using Visual C# 2010 Express Edition. The easiest technical book you'll ever read. Open it up and... More > see for yourself. Join Professor Smiley's Visual Basic.Net class as he teaches essential skills in programming, coding and more. Using a student-instructor conversational format, this book starts at the very beginning with crucial programming fundamentals. You'll quickly learn how to identify customer needs so you can create an application that achieves programming objectives---just like experienced programmers. By identifying clear client goals, you'll learn important programming basics---like how computers view input and execute output based on the information they are given---then use those skills to develop real-world applications. Participate in this one-of-a-kind classroom experience and see why Professor Smiley is renowned for making learning fun and easy. < Less

An Introductory text on Visual Basic using the freely downloadable Visual Basic 2010 Express Edition. The easiest technical... More > book you'll ever read. Open it up and see for yourself. Join Professor Smiley's Visual Basic.Net class as he teaches essential skills in programming, coding and more. Using a student-instructor conversational format, this book starts at the very beginning with crucial programming fundamentals. You'll quickly learn how to identify customer needs so you can create an application that achieves programming objectives---just like experienced programmers. By identifying clear client goals, you'll learn important programming basics---like how computers view input and execute output based on the information they are given---then use those skills to develop real-world applications. Participate in this one-of-a-kind classroom experience and see why Professor Smiley is renowned for making learning fun and easy. < Less

An Introductory text on C# using Visual C# 2008 Express Edition. The easiest technical book you'll ever read. Open it up and... More > see for yourself. Join Professor Smiley's C# class as he teaches essential skills in programming, coding and more. Using a student-instructor conversational format, this book starts at the very beginning with crucial programming fundamentals. You'll quickly learn how to identify customer needs so you can create an application that achieves programming objectives---just like experienced programmers. By identifying clear client goals, you'll learn important programming basics---like how computers view input and execute output based on the information they are given---then use those skills to develop real-world applications. Participate in this one-of-a-kind classroom experience and see why Professor Smiley is renowned for making learning fun and easy. < Less