Think about your kinder garten school days or look at how kids are taught. The textbook used lots of pictures and big letters and colors. This attracted the child’s attention and whatever is taught gets associated to the images and colors in the child’s brain. If you get a chance, take a look at the alphabets book or a kid’s math book. I remember the way math was taught to me. For example additions were taught something like below.

What we started learning in the right way is not what we do as we move along. Ofcourse the contents gradually increase and it becomes difficult to create a book of that type but not impossible. Thats where mind maps are very helpful. You read a topic, understand and try to associate with things that come to your mind naturally and depict them diagrammatically with the topic as the central context in mind. Once you have this mind map in your hand, your revisions are with the mind map rather than the book (but make sure you have all the key points captured. With the mind map you should be able to reproduce the topic in text using your own words).

There are some books which present the contents with good visual information so you can read and remember them easily. As I write this the following books come to my mind.

Beyond Code - Learn to distinguish yourself in 9 simple steps by Rajesh Setty
The Circle of Innovation - You cant shrink your way to greatness by Tom Peters
OReily’s Head First series