General Computing in Computers & Nonfiction eBooks

A Biography of the Pixel

by Alvy Ray Smith ...

Series series Leonardo
The pixel as the organizing principle of all pictures, from cave paintings to Toy Story.The Great Digital Convergence of all media types into one universal digital medium occurred, with little fanfare, at the recent turn of the millennium. The bit became the universal medium, and the pixel--a particular packaging of bits--conquered the world. Henceforward, nearly every picture in the world would ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

The pixel as the organizing principle of all pictures, from cave paintings to Toy Story.The Great Digital Convergence of all media types into one universal digital medium occurred, with little fanfare, at the recent turn of the millennium. The bit became the universal medium, and the pixel--a particular packaging of bits--conquered the world. Henceforward, nearly every picture in the world would
... Read more
Conquer the command line

The Raspberry Pi terminal guide

by Richard Smedley ...

Series series Essentials
Updated for the latest Raspberry Pi software, this essential guide shows you how to master the command line for new ways to work with files, processes, and devices.For getting instructions from user to computer — in a clear, quick, and unambiguous form — nothing beats the command line. It never disappeared on UNIX and Linux systems, and thanks to Raspberry Pi OS, a new generation is discovering ... Read more

$6.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Updated for the latest Raspberry Pi software, this essential guide shows you how to master the command line for new ways to work with files, processes, and devices.For getting instructions from user to computer — in a clear, quick, and unambiguous form — nothing beats the command line. It never disappeared on UNIX and Linux systems, and thanks to Raspberry Pi OS, a new generation is discovering
... Read more
The Software Test Engineer's Handbook, 2nd Edition

A Study Guide for the ISTQB Test Analyst and Technical Test Analyst Advanced Level Certificates 2012

by Graham Bath, Judy McKay ...

Many books cover functional testing techniques, but relatively few also cover technical testing. The Software Test Engineer's Handbook-2nd Edition fills that gap. Authors Graham Bath and Judy McKay are core members of the ISTQB Working Party that created the new Advanced Level Syllabus-Test Analyst and Advanced Level Syllabus-Technical Test Analyst. These syllabi were released in 2012.This book ... Read more

$26.99 CAD

Many books cover functional testing techniques, but relatively few also cover technical testing. The Software Test Engineer's Handbook-2nd Edition fills that gap. Authors Graham Bath and Judy McKay are core members of the ISTQB Working Party that created the new Advanced Level Syllabus-Test Analyst and Advanced Level Syllabus-Technical Test Analyst. These syllabi were released in 2012.This book
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Role-Playing Game Studies

Transmedia Foundations

Edited by Sebastian Deterding, José Zagal ...

This handbook collects, for the first time, the state of research on role-playing games (RPGs) across disciplines, cultures, and media in a single, accessible volume. Collaboratively authored by more than 50 key scholars, it traces the history of RPGs, from wargaming precursors to tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons to the rise of live action role-play and contemporary computer RPG and massively ... Read more

$114.99 CAD

This handbook collects, for the first time, the state of research on role-playing games (RPGs) across disciplines, cultures, and media in a single, accessible volume. Collaboratively authored by more than 50 key scholars, it traces the history of RPGs, from wargaming precursors to tabletop RPGs like Dungeons & Dragons to the rise of live action role-play and contemporary computer RPG and massively
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The Semantic Web Explained

The Technology and Mathematics behind Web 3.0

by Péter Szeredi, Gergely Lukácsy, Tamás Benkő, Zsolt Nagy ...

The Semantic Web is a new area of research and development in the field of computer science that aims to make it easier for computers to process the huge amount of information on the web, and indeed other large databases, by enabling them not only to read, but also to understand the information. Based on successful courses taught by the authors, and liberally sprinkled with examples and exercises, ... Read more

$64.99 CAD

The Semantic Web is a new area of research and development in the field of computer science that aims to make it easier for computers to process the huge amount of information on the web, and indeed other large databases, by enabling them not only to read, but also to understand the information. Based on successful courses taught by the authors, and liberally sprinkled with examples and exercises,
... Read more
Quarterly Essay 72 Net Loss

The Inner Life in the Digital Age

by Sebastian Smee ...

Series Book 72 - Quarterly Essay
We live in an age of constant distraction. Is there a price to pay for this?In this superb essay, renowned critic Sebastian Smee explores the fate of the inner life in the age of the internet. Throughout history, artists and thinkers have cultivated the deep self, and seen value in solitude and reflection. But today, with social media, wall-to-wall marketing and the agitation of modern life, ... Read more

$7.99 CAD

We live in an age of constant distraction. Is there a price to pay for this?In this superb essay, renowned critic Sebastian Smee explores the fate of the inner life in the age of the internet. Throughout history, artists and thinkers have cultivated the deep self, and seen value in solitude and reflection. But today, with social media, wall-to-wall marketing and the agitation of modern life,
... Read more
How to Land a Top-Paying Engineers Job: Your Complete Guide to Opportunities, Resumes and Cover Letters, Interviews, Salaries, Promotions, What to Expect From Recruiters and More!

by Brad Andrews ...

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Engineers job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important ... Read more

$12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

For the first time, a book exists that compiles all the information candidates need to apply for their first Engineers job, or to apply for a better job.What you'll find especially helpful are the worksheets. It is so much easier to write about a work experience using these outlines. It ensures that the narrative will follow a logical structure and reminds you not to leave out the most important
... Read more
Drupal Rules How-to

Discover the power of the Rules framework to turn your Drupal 7 installation into an action-based, interactive application with this book and ebook.

by Robert Varkonyi ...

Discover the power of the Rules framework to turn your Drupal 7 installation into an action-based, interactive application with this book and ebook.Key FeaturesLearn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.Leverage the power of Rules and Views Bulk OperationsRe-use configurations using ComponentsCreate your own Events, Conditions and Actions.Book ... Read more

$21.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Discover the power of the Rules framework to turn your Drupal 7 installation into an action-based, interactive application with this book and ebook.Key FeaturesLearn something new in an Instant! A short, fast, focused guide delivering immediate results.Leverage the power of Rules and Views Bulk OperationsRe-use configurations using ComponentsCreate your own Events, Conditions and Actions.Book
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Jamovi for Psychologists

by Paul Richardson, Laura Machan ...

This textbook offers a refreshingly clear and digestible introduction to statistical analysis for psychology using the user-friendly jamovi software. The authors provide a concise, practical guide that takes students from the early stages of research design, with a jargon-free explanation of terminology, and walks them through key analyses such as the t-test, ANOVA, correlation, chi-square, and ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

This textbook offers a refreshingly clear and digestible introduction to statistical analysis for psychology using the user-friendly jamovi software. The authors provide a concise, practical guide that takes students from the early stages of research design, with a jargon-free explanation of terminology, and walks them through key analyses such as the t-test, ANOVA, correlation, chi-square, and
... Read more
The iPhone App Design Manual

Create Perfect Designs for Effortless Coding and App Store Success

by Dave Brown ...

App creation is now a huge, global business, with hundreds of thousands of developers, entrepreneurs, and companies attracted by the potential rewards. But games, functional apps, and promotional apps alike depend on attractive, intuitive design for their appeal, and most fail to find a significant audience.With this book, you'll be able to turn your great app idea into a functioning design ready ... Read more

$24.99 CAD

App creation is now a huge, global business, with hundreds of thousands of developers, entrepreneurs, and companies attracted by the potential rewards. But games, functional apps, and promotional apps alike depend on attractive, intuitive design for their appeal, and most fail to find a significant audience.With this book, you'll be able to turn your great app idea into a functioning design ready
... Read more
Basics Interactive Design: User Experience Design

Creating designs users really love

by Gavin Allanwood, Mr Peter Beare ...

Series series Basics Interactive Design
By putting people at the centre of interactive design, user experience (UX) techniques are now right at the heart of digital media design and development. As a designer, you need to create work that will impact positively on everyone who is exposed to it. Whether it's passive and immutable or interactive and dynamic, the success of your design will depend largely on how well the user experience is ... Read more

$33.99 CAD

By putting people at the centre of interactive design, user experience (UX) techniques are now right at the heart of digital media design and development. As a designer, you need to create work that will impact positively on everyone who is exposed to it. Whether it's passive and immutable or interactive and dynamic, the success of your design will depend largely on how well the user experience is
... Read more
Practical Threat Detection Engineering

A hands-on guide to planning, developing, and validating detection capabilities

by Megan Roddie, Jason Deyalsingh, Gary J. Katz ...

Learn to build, test, and optimize high-fidelity security detections with hands-on labs, real-world scenarios, and industry frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK to master detection engineering and boost your career.Key FeaturesMaster the core principles of detection engineering, from development to validationFollow practical tutorials and real-world examples to build and test detections effectivelyBoost ... Read more

$48.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Learn to build, test, and optimize high-fidelity security detections with hands-on labs, real-world scenarios, and industry frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK to master detection engineering and boost your career.Key FeaturesMaster the core principles of detection engineering, from development to validationFollow practical tutorials and real-world examples to build and test detections effectivelyBoost
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Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions: Exam Guide 70-535

A complete guide to passing the 70-535 Architecting Microsoft Azure Solutions exam

by Sjoukje Zaal ...

Get certified as an Azure architect by acing the 70-535 Architecting Microsoft Solutions (70-535) exam using this comprehensive guide with full coverage of the exam objectives Key FeaturesLearn to successfully design and architect powerful solutions on the Azure Cloud platformEnhance your skills with mock tests and practice questionsA detailed certification guide that will help you ace the 70-535 ... Read more

$41.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Get certified as an Azure architect by acing the 70-535 Architecting Microsoft Solutions (70-535) exam using this comprehensive guide with full coverage of the exam objectives Key FeaturesLearn to successfully design and architect powerful solutions on the Azure Cloud platformEnhance your skills with mock tests and practice questionsA detailed certification guide that will help you ace the 70-535
... Read more
Generative AI in Higher Education

The ChatGPT Effect

by Cecilia Ka Yuk Chan, Tom Colloton ...

Chan and Colloton’s book is one of the first to provide a comprehensive examination of the use and impact of ChatGPT and Generative AI (GenAI) in higher education.Since November 2022, every conversation in higher education has involved ChatGPT and its impact on all aspects of teaching and learning. The book explores the necessity of AI literacy tailored to professional contexts, assess the ... Read more

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Chan and Colloton’s book is one of the first to provide a comprehensive examination of the use and impact of ChatGPT and Generative AI (GenAI) in higher education.Since November 2022, every conversation in higher education has involved ChatGPT and its impact on all aspects of teaching and learning. The book explores the necessity of AI literacy tailored to professional contexts, assess the
... Read more
Embedded Firmware Solutions

Development Best Practices for the Internet of Things

by Vincent Zimmer, Jiming Sun, Marc Jones, Stefan Reinauer ...

Embedded Firmware Solutions is the perfect introduction and daily-use field guide--for the thousands of firmware designers, hardware engineers, architects, managers, and developers--to Intel’s new firmware direction (including Quark coverage), showing how to integrate Intel® Architecture designs into their plans.Featuring hands-on examples and exercises using Open Source codebases, like Coreboot ... Read more

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Embedded Firmware Solutions is the perfect introduction and daily-use field guide--for the thousands of firmware designers, hardware engineers, architects, managers, and developers--to Intel’s new firmware direction (including Quark coverage), showing how to integrate Intel® Architecture designs into their plans.Featuring hands-on examples and exercises using Open Source codebases, like Coreboot
... Read more
How to Make Animated Films

Tony White's Masterclass Course on the Traditional Principles of Animation

by Tony White ...

Become Tony White's personal animation student. Experience many of the teaching techniques of the golden era of Disney and Warner Brothers studios and beyond.all from the comfort of your own home or studio. Tony White's Animation Master Class is uniquely designed to cover the core principles of animated movement comprehensively. How to Make Animated Films offers secrets and unique approaches only ... Read more

$102.99 CAD

Become Tony White's personal animation student. Experience many of the teaching techniques of the golden era of Disney and Warner Brothers studios and beyond.all from the comfort of your own home or studio. Tony White's Animation Master Class is uniquely designed to cover the core principles of animated movement comprehensively. How to Make Animated Films offers secrets and unique approaches only
... Read more
Akamai State of the Internet

Q4 2015

by Akamai Technologies ...

Akamai’s globally distributed Intelligent Platform allows us to gather massive amounts of data on many metrics, including connection speeds, attack traffic, network connectivity/availability issues, and IPv6 adoption progress, as well as traffic patterns across the leading Web properties and digital media providers. Each quarter, Akamai publishes the State of the Internet Report.This quarter’s ... Read more

Free

Akamai’s globally distributed Intelligent Platform allows us to gather massive amounts of data on many metrics, including connection speeds, attack traffic, network connectivity/availability issues, and IPv6 adoption progress, as well as traffic patterns across the leading Web properties and digital media providers. Each quarter, Akamai publishes the State of the Internet Report.This quarter’s
... Read more
Apple iPad 10.2 for Seniors: Made Simple

by Edward Marteson ...

One of the most famous Apple products would the iPad as it is something that can be quite useful in a variety of ways. There are so many things that you can do with it and as the possibilities are quite endless, you think about just how exciting it would be to own one for yourself. There is only so much that you can get from a certain device and the iPad really exceeds people’s expectations of ... Read more

$5.63 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

One of the most famous Apple products would the iPad as it is something that can be quite useful in a variety of ways. There are so many things that you can do with it and as the possibilities are quite endless, you think about just how exciting it would be to own one for yourself. There is only so much that you can get from a certain device and the iPad really exceeds people’s expectations of
... Read more
The Advanced Roblox Coding Book: An Unofficial Guide, Updated Edition

Learn How to Script Games, Code Objects and Settings, and Create Your Own World!

by Heath Haskins ...

Series series Unofficial Roblox Series
Make the most out of your Roblox experience with The Advanced Roblox Coding Book—now updated with new content, including updated avatar customization, movement and animation updates, and more!The Advanced Roblox Coding Book provides next-level, beginner-friendly guidance for middle-grade readers using Roblox Studio and Lua code to create interactive games. Players will learn where and how to use ... Read more

$12.99 CAD

Make the most out of your Roblox experience with The Advanced Roblox Coding Book—now updated with new content, including updated avatar customization, movement and animation updates, and more!The Advanced Roblox Coding Book provides next-level, beginner-friendly guidance for middle-grade readers using Roblox Studio and Lua code to create interactive games. Players will learn where and how to use
... Read more
Producing Animation 3e

by Catherine Winder, Zahra Dowlatabadi ...

Producing Animationis a clear and comprehensive guide to a dynamic industry. Already a relied-upon resource by professionals and students alike, this book covers the process from concept to screen while defining the role of the producer at each phase. The third edition features new content on the latest innovations plus insights on key topics from industry experts, sidebars on legal matters, as ... Read more

$83.99 CAD

Producing Animationis a clear and comprehensive guide to a dynamic industry. Already a relied-upon resource by professionals and students alike, this book covers the process from concept to screen while defining the role of the producer at each phase. The third edition features new content on the latest innovations plus insights on key topics from industry experts, sidebars on legal matters, as
... Read more
The Art of Lean Software Development

A Practical and Incremental Approach

by Curt Hibbs, Steve Jewett, Mike Sullivan ...

This succinct book explains how you can apply the practices of Lean software development to dramatically increase productivity and quality. Based on techniques that revolutionized Japanese manufacturing, Lean principles are being applied successfully to product design, engineering, the supply chain, and now software development. With The Art of Lean Software Development, you'll learn how to adopt ... Read more

$28.99 CAD

This succinct book explains how you can apply the practices of Lean software development to dramatically increase productivity and quality. Based on techniques that revolutionized Japanese manufacturing, Lean principles are being applied successfully to product design, engineering, the supply chain, and now software development. With The Art of Lean Software Development, you'll learn how to adopt
... Read more
Organized Crime

A Cultural Introduction

by Antonio Nicaso, Marcel Danesi ...

This book aims to describe and demystify what makes criminal gangs so culturally powerful. It examines their codes of conduct, initiation rites, secret communications methods, origin myths, symbols, and the like that imbue the gangsters with the pride and nonchalance that goes hand in hand with their criminal activities. Mobsters are everywhere in the movies, on television, and on websites. ... Read more

$81.99 CAD

This book aims to describe and demystify what makes criminal gangs so culturally powerful. It examines their codes of conduct, initiation rites, secret communications methods, origin myths, symbols, and the like that imbue the gangsters with the pride and nonchalance that goes hand in hand with their criminal activities. Mobsters are everywhere in the movies, on television, and on websites.
... Read more
Microsoft Access 2019: For Beginners

by J. Davidson ...

Microsoft Access 2019 is one of the applications that you will find included in the Microsoft Office Suite. Microsoft Access software is primarily dedicated to data management. The very first version of Microsoft was confirmed in 1988. The name of the product was Project Omega. Project Omega was later canceled and then it was replaced by Project Cirrus. The first official consumer version of ... Read more

$5.63 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Microsoft Access 2019 is one of the applications that you will find included in the Microsoft Office Suite. Microsoft Access software is primarily dedicated to data management. The very first version of Microsoft was confirmed in 1988. The name of the product was Project Omega. Project Omega was later canceled and then it was replaced by Project Cirrus. The first official consumer version of
... Read more
Microsoft Azure Administrator ??? Exam Guide AZ-103

Your in-depth certification guide in becoming Microsoft Certified Azure Administrator Associate

by Sjoukje Zaal ...

Manage Microsoft Azure cloud services that span storage, security, networking, and compute cloud capabilities and ace the AZ-103 Exam Key FeaturesLearn features and concepts related to Azure's administration servicesGain an understanding of different Azure services related to infrastructure, applications, and environmentsTest your knowledge by taking mock tests with up-to-date exam questionsBook ... Read more

$37.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Manage Microsoft Azure cloud services that span storage, security, networking, and compute cloud capabilities and ace the AZ-103 Exam Key FeaturesLearn features and concepts related to Azure's administration servicesGain an understanding of different Azure services related to infrastructure, applications, and environmentsTest your knowledge by taking mock tests with up-to-date exam questionsBook
... Read more

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