Books/Tutorials to Learn SVG [closed]

Question

Does anyone here know SVG? If so, how did you learn it?

Any books/tutorial pointer will be beneficial. Also I am a programmer, not a designer, so I want to pick up some skills there too.

Answer 1

One method that you might want to try is by direct experimentation. Inkscape is an open source SVG editor that lets you directly view and manipulate the XML tree while editing graphically. So in this way, you can experiment with things and see how they affect the XML that gets generated.

Answer 2

I learned it developing SVG Tiny software, mostly by reading the spec. SVG Tiny is basically a subset of full SVG and is focused on use in mobile phones and other "devices".

Adding to the links from previous answers, KevLinDev has a bunch of beginner-friendly tutorials.

EDIT: Removed Ikivo Animator link, since it is now leading to an entirely different kind of site.

Answer 3

You could have a look at the SVG tutorial at w3schools. They also have a SVG reference there.

Another very good source is SelfSVG, but it is in german.

Answer 4

The best reference book I've seen on SVG is SVG Essentials by J. David Eisenberg. I used that book to learn SVG. I also used Firefox to view SVGs and Inkscape to create them.