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I've been lazing about the whole summer(most of my life actually) and I feel it is time to get my S it together and get me some book lurnen dun.

I'm by no means "new" to a computer but beginners books would be nice even if they are teaching me alot I already know.

I need books on:

Apache
PHP
MySQL
C#

And something on windows api preferably in C++

I know alot about most of this stuff already but I've taught myself most of it and thats no substitute for a formal education with books and what not...
and yes I could and am taking college course on this but it'd be nice to get a head start.

Any suggestions would be helpful(something more specific than O'Reilly).

You can always get "Computers for Dummies." I just made that book up, but it's bound to be real.

I'd study the actual documentation, or online articles about the subjects. Books have a bad habit of being out of date, because they can't be republished every time a change is made.

Go to C#, the Language is nice and simple and teaches you good coding habits. DO NOT HOWEVER, go to VB.NET or VB for that matter, the syntax is way off and will really throw you off and make it difficult to learn any other language, i Learnt coding by myself, Never done a coding course or class in my life, i just played around with the syntax and developed my own understanding of it.

And yes self eductation is a very good substitute of formal eductation, as long as you do it right and learn the right things you can be a very good coder. I would consider myself really good at games programming, i taught myself: C#, VB (Big Mistake), C++, Embedded C, Pascal. I have always liked Graphics Programming.

I don't really need recommendations on languages. I will however agree that VB.NET is a horrible 1st language but it's so terribly easy to whip together a poorly thought out gui with it. I started with C++(ouch) and Python.

As for studying the documentation, a lot of it happens to have the habit of being the driest most technical and just plain unbearable cruft I've ever read. and any book published in the last 5 years on these subjects is bound to still be relevant. Beside all that I'd really prefer to have something in my hands to read and I really don't want to print off 400 page manuals.

This place might be able to help you with learning some PHP:
http://w3schools.com/php/default.asp

On the same site they have stuff on SQL Im not sure if its the same SQL you're looking for:
http://w3schools.com/sql/default.asp

Hope these help.

The O'Reilly C# Cookbook (ISBN 0-596-00339-0) and Apress 'A Programmer's Introduction to C# 2.0' (ISBN 1-59059-501-7) are both great C# books. The C# cookbook is a great list of algorithms and ideas that can be easily expanded upon for actual project, and the programmer's intro to C# is like a beginners book for people who already know how to program, but want to refine their knowledge(or learn C# for the first time, but they already know about OOP etc.).

i know where you can get apache
[url]httpd.apache.com[/url]
i thinks thtas it
if you need a book on 3D programming like a big really good one you can get Direct X 9 3D programing i think it was its in Angus and robertson

I found a nice website called "The C# Corner" but i'm not sure if it is still active. Otherwise CODE PROJECT!!

Those are great suggestions... except they aren't books. If I was looking for websites, I hear they have this wild new thing called google...