Language Integrated Query (LINQ) is a new feature in Visual Studio 2008 that extends its query capabilities using C# and Visual Basic. Visual Studio 2008 comes with LINQ provider assemblies that enable the use of LINQ with data sources, such as in-memory collections, SQL relational databases, ADO.NET Datasets, XML documents, etc.

The Quick Python Book, Third Edition is a comprehensive guide to the Python language by a Python authority, Naomi Ceder.

This book doesn’t tell you how to install and get up to speed on a Linux system. For that, you’ll probably want O’Reilly’s Running Linux, by Matthias Kalle Dahlheimer and Matt Welsh, an in-depth guide suitable for all major distributions.

This book is intended to cure the troubles of front-end developers, make their lives more meaningful and happier, and help them earn more money by introducing them to React.js—and doing so in a fast manner (hence the word Quickly in the title).

CSS, which stands for Cascading Style Sheets, is a stylistic language that defines how web pages are presented. It complements HTML, which is the language used for describing the structure of web site content. Because HTML predates CSS, it includes a number of limited stylistic elements and attributes, but they have largely been deprecated in favor of the much greater design control offered by CSS.

The C# programming language is an object-oriented language created by Microsoft for the .NET Framework. C# (pronounced “see sharp”) builds on some of the best features of the major programming languages.