Wynn Netherland, Nathan Weizenbaum, Chris Eppstein, and Brandon Mathis - Sass and Compass in Action [2013, PDF, ENG]

Part 1 Getting acquainted with Sass and Compass

Chapter 1 Sass and Compass make stylesheets fun again
Getting started with Sass
Hello Sass: DRYing up your stylesheets
What is Compass?
Create a Compass project
Solve real-world CSS problems with Compass
Summary
Chapter 2 Basic Sass syntax
Working with variables
Nesting CSS rules
Importing Sass files
Silent comments
Introducing mixins
Trimming CSS with selector inheritance
Summary
Part 2 Using Sass and Compass in practice

Chapter 3 CSS grids without the math
What is a grid?
Getting started with grids
Using Blueprint
Using 960.gs
Vertical rhythm with Compass
Summary
Chapter 4 Eliminate the mundane using Compass
A better blank slate with targeted resets
Utilities for faster, better-looking typography
Layout helpers
Summary
Chapter 5 CSS3 with Compass
What is CSS3?
Using CSS3 with Compass
Support for Internet Explorer with CSS PIE
Summary
Part 3 Tuning for production

Chapter 6 Spriting
How do CSS sprites work?
Why is spriting necessary?
Spriting with Compass
Configuring Compass sprites
Mastering the magic with sprite helpers
Summary
Chapter 7 From prototype to production
Abstracting URLs
Prototyping with Sass and Compass
Deploying to production
Summary
Chapter 8 High-performance stylesheets
Measuring client-side performance
Avoiding HTTP requests with server-side @import
Reducing transfer time with compression
Speeding up page loads with asset hosts
Inline data URIs
Selector performance
Summary
Part 4 Advanced Sass and Compass

Chapter 9 Scripting with Sass
Using expressions
Understanding data types
Functions
Using expressions in selectors and property names
Control directives
Summary
Chapter 10 Creating and sharing a Compass extension
Sharing and reusing stylesheets
A simple extension
Creating an extension demo project
Writing an advanced extension
Creating a template
Distributing extensions
Summary

appendix A Installing Sass and Compass
appendix B Getting started with Compass
appendix C The Sass syntaxes
index