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What is a good HTML5 book?
What are the best books for learning HTML 5, CSS, and PHP. I am trying to learn as fast as possible and as best as possible. Would books would you recommend for a complete beginner? I have a book on html but it's like 4 years old before html 5 came out. Is that a problem?
w3schools should be a good starting place:
Mozilla also has pretty good tutorials:
If you're just starting out, don't worry too much about the differences between HTML 4 and 5 at this point. They're mostly the same for the fundamentals you need to learn.
While I own a ton of programming related books, the only one that I've every actually totally read was Head First Design Patterns, it's a really good read. I would definitely try another book from their series, so Head First HTML with CSS & XHTML might be worth while for you.
As Marko said, Introducing HTML5 is a good book that's developer focused, but does require some HTML knowledge. Jeremy Keith's HTML5 for Web Designers is also a really good introduction, but again, it assumes an existing level of understanding.