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Creating Mobile Apps with Xamarin.Forms Preview Edition 2

by Charles Petzold ...

Series series Developer Reference
This second Preview Edition ebook, now with 16 chapters, is about writing applications for Xamarin.Forms, the new mobile development platform for iOS, Android, and Windows phones unveiled by Xamarin in May 2014. Xamarin.Forms lets you write shared user-interface code in C# and XAML that maps to native controls on these three platforms. ... Read more

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This second Preview Edition ebook, now with 16 chapters, is about writing applications for Xamarin.Forms, the new mobile development platform for iOS, Android, and Windows phones unveiled by Xamarin in May 2014. Xamarin.Forms lets you write shared user-interface code in C# and XAML that maps to native controls on these three platforms.
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Java Performance

In-Depth Advice for Tuning and Programming Java 8, 11, and Beyond

by Scott Oaks ...

Coding and testing are generally considered separate areas of expertise. In this practical book, Java expert Scott Oaks takes the approach that anyone who works with Java should be adept at understanding how code behaves in the Java Virtual Machine—including the tunings likely to help performance. This updated second edition helps you gain in-depth knowledge of Java application performance using ... Read more

$54.99 CAD

Coding and testing are generally considered separate areas of expertise. In this practical book, Java expert Scott Oaks takes the approach that anyone who works with Java should be adept at understanding how code behaves in the Java Virtual Machine—including the tunings likely to help performance. This updated second edition helps you gain in-depth knowledge of Java application performance using
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The Golden Ticket

P, NP, and the Search for the Impossible

by Lance Fortnow ...

The P-NP problem is the most important open problem in computer science, if not all of mathematics. The Golden Ticket provides a nontechnical introduction to P-NP, its rich history, and its algorithmic implications for everything we do with computers and beyond. In this informative and entertaining book, Lance Fortnow traces how the problem arose during the Cold War on both sides of the Iron ... Read more

$24.99 CAD

The P-NP problem is the most important open problem in computer science, if not all of mathematics. The Golden Ticket provides a nontechnical introduction to P-NP, its rich history, and its algorithmic implications for everything we do with computers and beyond. In this informative and entertaining book, Lance Fortnow traces how the problem arose during the Cold War on both sides of the Iron
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Rails 4 Way, The

by Obie Fernandez, Kevin Faustino ...

The “Bible” for Rails Development: Now Fully Updated for Rails 4.1"When I read The Rails Way for the first time, I felt like I truly understood Rails for the first time.”—From the Foreword by Steve KlabnikRuby on Rails 4 is leaner, tighter, and even more valuable to professional web developers. More than ever, it helps you focus on what matters most: delivering business value via clean and ... Read more

$47.99 CAD

The “Bible” for Rails Development: Now Fully Updated for Rails 4.1"When I read The Rails Way for the first time, I felt like I truly understood Rails for the first time.”—From the Foreword by Steve KlabnikRuby on Rails 4 is leaner, tighter, and even more valuable to professional web developers. More than ever, it helps you focus on what matters most: delivering business value via clean and
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Assembly Language:Simple, Short, And Straightforward Way Of Learning Assembly Programming

by Sherwyn Allibang ...

This book is intended for beginners who would like to learn the basics of Assembly Programming. This book uses Simple words, Short sentences and Straightforward paragraphs. The triple S way to learn Assembly Programming. The topics covered in this book includes a brief introduction to assembly, common arithmetic instructions, character and string input and display routines, flow controls including ... Read more

$4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

This book is intended for beginners who would like to learn the basics of Assembly Programming. This book uses Simple words, Short sentences and Straightforward paragraphs. The triple S way to learn Assembly Programming. The topics covered in this book includes a brief introduction to assembly, common arithmetic instructions, character and string input and display routines, flow controls including
... Read more
Doing Math with Python

Use Programming to Explore Algebra, Statistics, Calculus, and More!

by Amit Saha ...

Doing Math with Python shows you how to use Python to delve into high school–level math topics like statistics, geometry, probability, and calculus. You’ll start with simple projects, like a factoring program and a quadratic-equation solver, and then create more complex projects once you’ve gotten the hang of things.Along the way, you’ll discover new ways to explore math and gain valuable ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

Doing Math with Python shows you how to use Python to delve into high school–level math topics like statistics, geometry, probability, and calculus. You’ll start with simple projects, like a factoring program and a quadratic-equation solver, and then create more complex projects once you’ve gotten the hang of things.Along the way, you’ll discover new ways to explore math and gain valuable
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Old New Thing

Practical Development Throughout the Evolution of Windows, The

by Raymond Chen ...

"Raymond Chen is the original raconteur of Windows."--Scott Hanselman, ComputerZen.com"Raymond has been at Microsoft for many years and has seen many nuances of Windows that others could only ever hope to get a glimpse of. With this book, Raymond shares his knowledge, experience, and anecdotal stories, allowing all of us to get a better understanding of the operating system that affects millions ... Read more

$47.99 CAD

"Raymond Chen is the original raconteur of Windows."--Scott Hanselman, ComputerZen.com"Raymond has been at Microsoft for many years and has seen many nuances of Windows that others could only ever hope to get a glimpse of. With this book, Raymond shares his knowledge, experience, and anecdotal stories, allowing all of us to get a better understanding of the operating system that affects millions
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Hello, Startup

A Programmer's Guide to Building Products, Technologies, and Teams

by Yevgeniy Brikman ...

This book is the "Hello, World" tutorial for building products, technologies, and teams in a startup environment. It's based on the experiences of the author, Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman, as well as interviews with programmers from some of the most successful startups of the last decade, including Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, GitHub, Stripe, Instagram, AdMob, Pinterest, and many others.Hello, ... Read more

$31.99 CAD

This book is the "Hello, World" tutorial for building products, technologies, and teams in a startup environment. It's based on the experiences of the author, Yevgeniy (Jim) Brikman, as well as interviews with programmers from some of the most successful startups of the last decade, including Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, GitHub, Stripe, Instagram, AdMob, Pinterest, and many others.Hello,
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Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner's Guide

by Joe Mayo ...

Essential Skills--Made Easy! Written by a Microsoft MVP and Visual Studio expert, this hands-on guide gets you started with the latest release of Microsoft's flagship Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner's Guide shows you how to build applications from the ground up, covering C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), ... Read more

$45.99 CAD

Essential Skills--Made Easy! Written by a Microsoft MVP and Visual Studio expert, this hands-on guide gets you started with the latest release of Microsoft's flagship Integrated Development Environment (IDE). Microsoft Visual Studio 2010: A Beginner's Guide shows you how to build applications from the ground up, covering C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF),
... Read more
Cody's Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS, Third Edition

by Ron Cody ...

Find errors and clean up data easily using SAS!Thoroughly updated, Cody's Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS, Third Edition, addresses tasks that nearly every data analyst needs to do - that is, make sure that data errors are located and corrected. Written in Ron Cody's signature informal, tutorial style, this book develops and demonstrates data cleaning programs and macros that you can use as ... Read more

$40.99 CAD

Find errors and clean up data easily using SAS!Thoroughly updated, Cody's Data Cleaning Techniques Using SAS, Third Edition, addresses tasks that nearly every data analyst needs to do - that is, make sure that data errors are located and corrected. Written in Ron Cody's signature informal, tutorial style, this book develops and demonstrates data cleaning programs and macros that you can use as
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Microsoft Word VBA Extracts Mega Data from Multiple Documents, Text Files and Email Files in Seconds

by Kenny Keys ...

This book is for every employee that’s required to consolidate hundreds of documents into a large, single document. Users will be able to extract data from hundreds of emails for documenting correspondence in seconds; users will be able to consolidate month-end reports and other business documents in seconds, and users will be able to manually resize, format and apply effects to hundreds of large ... Read more

$5.14 CAD

This book is for every employee that’s required to consolidate hundreds of documents into a large, single document. Users will be able to extract data from hundreds of emails for documenting correspondence in seconds; users will be able to consolidate month-end reports and other business documents in seconds, and users will be able to manually resize, format and apply effects to hundreds of large
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AI for Game Developers

Creating Intelligent Behavior in Games

by David M Bourg, Glenn Seemann ...

Advances in 3D visualization and physics-based simulation technology make it possible for game developers to create compelling, visually immersive gaming environments that were only dreamed of years ago. But today's game players have grown in sophistication along with the games they play. It's no longer enough to wow your players with dazzling graphics; the next step in creating even more ... Read more

$26.99 CAD

Advances in 3D visualization and physics-based simulation technology make it possible for game developers to create compelling, visually immersive gaming environments that were only dreamed of years ago. But today's game players have grown in sophistication along with the games they play. It's no longer enough to wow your players with dazzling graphics; the next step in creating even more
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MediaWiki

Wikipedia and Beyond

by Daniel J. Barrett ...

"A good book! It's a nice overview of wiki editing and administration, with pointers to handy extensions and further online documentation." -Brion Vibber, Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation"This book is filled with practical knowledge based on experience. It's not just spouting some party line." -Rob Church, a developer of MediaWikiMediaWiki is the world's most popular wiki platform, ... Read more

$28.99 CAD

"A good book! It's a nice overview of wiki editing and administration, with pointers to handy extensions and further online documentation." -Brion Vibber, Chief Technical Officer, Wikimedia Foundation"This book is filled with practical knowledge based on experience. It's not just spouting some party line." -Rob Church, a developer of MediaWikiMediaWiki is the world's most popular wiki platform,
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Python Machine Learning For Beginners: Handbook For Machine Learning, Deep Learning And Neural Networks Using Python, Scikit-Learn And TensorFlow

by Finn Sanders ...

Imagine a world where you can make a computer program learn for itself? What if it could recognize who is in a picture or the exact websites that you want to look for when you type it into the program? What if you were able to create any kind of program that you wanted, even as a beginner programmer, without all of the convoluted codes and other information that makes your head spin?This is ... Read more

$4.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Imagine a world where you can make a computer program learn for itself? What if it could recognize who is in a picture or the exact websites that you want to look for when you type it into the program? What if you were able to create any kind of program that you wanted, even as a beginner programmer, without all of the convoluted codes and other information that makes your head spin?This is
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Web Database Applications with PHP and MySQL

Building Effective Database-Driven Web Sites

by Hugh E. Williams, David Lane ...

There are many reasons for serving up dynamic content from a web site: to offer an online shopping site, create customized information pages for users, or just manage a large volume of content through a database. Anyone with a modest knowledge of HTML and web site management can learn to create dynamic content through the PHP programming language and the MySQL database. This book gives you the ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

There are many reasons for serving up dynamic content from a web site: to offer an online shopping site, create customized information pages for users, or just manage a large volume of content through a database. Anyone with a modest knowledge of HTML and web site management can learn to create dynamic content through the PHP programming language and the MySQL database. This book gives you the
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Ajax: The Definitive Guide

Interactive Applications for the Web

by Anthony T. Holdener III ...

Is Ajax a new technology, or the same old stuff web developers have been using for years? Both, actually. This book demonstrates not only how tried-and-true web standards make Ajax possible, but how these older technologies allow you to give sites a decidedly modern Web 2.0 feel.Ajax: The Definitive Guide explains how to use standards like JavaScript, XML, CSS, and XHTML, along with the ... Read more

$35.99 CAD

Is Ajax a new technology, or the same old stuff web developers have been using for years? Both, actually. This book demonstrates not only how tried-and-true web standards make Ajax possible, but how these older technologies allow you to give sites a decidedly modern Web 2.0 feel.Ajax: The Definitive Guide explains how to use standards like JavaScript, XML, CSS, and XHTML, along with the
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HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript Tome 2

by Michel Martin ...

Cet eBook fait partie d'une série sur la programmation HTML5, CSS3 et JavaScript. Il va vous montrer comment construire des pages Web de toutes pièces et les assembler pour créer des sites Web légers et compatibles avec les dernières normes du Web.Si vous n'avez aucune connaissance en programmation HTML/CSS/JavaScript, je vous rassure tout de suite, cet eBook est tout à fait adapté à votre profil, ... Read more

$9.99 CAD

Cet eBook fait partie d'une série sur la programmation HTML5, CSS3 et JavaScript. Il va vous montrer comment construire des pages Web de toutes pièces et les assembler pour créer des sites Web légers et compatibles avec les dernières normes du Web.Si vous n'avez aucune connaissance en programmation HTML/CSS/JavaScript, je vous rassure tout de suite, cet eBook est tout à fait adapté à votre profil,
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Learning JavaScript

JavaScript Essentials for Modern Application Development

by Ethan Brown ...

This is an exciting time to learn JavaScript. Now that the latest JavaScript specification—ECMAScript 6.0 (ES6)—has been finalized, learning how to develop high-quality applications with this language is easier and more satisfying than ever. This practical book takes programmers (amateurs and pros alike) on a no-nonsense tour of ES6, along with some related tools and techniques.Author Ethan Brown ... Read more

$45.99 CAD

This is an exciting time to learn JavaScript. Now that the latest JavaScript specification—ECMAScript 6.0 (ES6)—has been finalized, learning how to develop high-quality applications with this language is easier and more satisfying than ever. This practical book takes programmers (amateurs and pros alike) on a no-nonsense tour of ES6, along with some related tools and techniques.Author Ethan Brown
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Error-Correction Coding and Decoding

Bounds, Codes, Decoders, Analysis and Applications

by Martin Tomlinson, Cen Jung Tjhai, Marcel A. Ambroze, Mohammed Ahmed, Mubarak Jibril ...

Series series Engineering (R0)
This book discusses both the theory and practical applications of self-correcting data, commonly known as error-correcting codes. The applications included demonstrate the importance of these codes in a wide range of everyday technologies, from smartphones to secure communications and transactions. Written in a readily understandable style, the book presents the authors’ twenty-five years of ... Read more

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This book discusses both the theory and practical applications of self-correcting data, commonly known as error-correcting codes. The applications included demonstrate the importance of these codes in a wide range of everyday technologies, from smartphones to secure communications and transactions. Written in a readily understandable style, the book presents the authors’ twenty-five years of
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Beginning C# 7 Programming with Visual Studio 2017

by Benjamin Perkins, Jacob Vibe Hammer, Jon D. Reid ...

Easily get started programming using the ultra-versatile C# 7 and Visual Studio 2017Beginning C# 7 Programming with Visual Studio 2017 is the beginner’s ultimate guide to the world’s most popular programming language. Whether you’re new to programming entirely, or just new to C#, there has never been a better time to get started. The new C# 7 and Visual Studio 2017 updates feature a number of new ... Read more

$42.99 CAD

Easily get started programming using the ultra-versatile C# 7 and Visual Studio 2017Beginning C# 7 Programming with Visual Studio 2017 is the beginner’s ultimate guide to the world’s most popular programming language. Whether you’re new to programming entirely, or just new to C#, there has never been a better time to get started. The new C# 7 and Visual Studio 2017 updates feature a number of new
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Beginning ASP.NET 4.5: in C# and VB

by Imar Spaanjaars ...

The ultimate programming guide to ASP.NET 4.5, by popular author and Microsoft MVP Imar SpaanjaarsUpdated for ASP.NET 4.5, this introductory book is filled with helpful examples and contains a user-friendly, step-by-step format. Written by popular author and Microsoft ASP.NET MVP Imar Spaanjaars, this book walks you through ASP.NET, Microsoft's technology for building dynamically generated web ... Read more

$43.99 CAD

The ultimate programming guide to ASP.NET 4.5, by popular author and Microsoft MVP Imar SpaanjaarsUpdated for ASP.NET 4.5, this introductory book is filled with helpful examples and contains a user-friendly, step-by-step format. Written by popular author and Microsoft ASP.NET MVP Imar Spaanjaars, this book walks you through ASP.NET, Microsoft's technology for building dynamically generated web
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Essential Algorithms

A Practical Approach to Computer Algorithms Using Python and C#

by Rod Stephens ...

A friendly introduction to the most useful algorithms written in simple, intuitive EnglishThe revised and updated second edition of Essential Algorithms, offers an accessible introduction to computer algorithms. The book contains a description of important classical algorithms and explains when each is appropriate. The author shows how to analyze algorithms in order to understand their behavior ... Read more

$46.99 CAD

A friendly introduction to the most useful algorithms written in simple, intuitive EnglishThe revised and updated second edition of Essential Algorithms, offers an accessible introduction to computer algorithms. The book contains a description of important classical algorithms and explains when each is appropriate. The author shows how to analyze algorithms in order to understand their behavior
... Read more
NUnit Pocket Reference

Up and Running with NUnit

by Bill Hamilton ...

Few .NET developers have the luxury of unlimited code testing once their application is complete, and rushing through the testing process is both problematic and stressful. The open source NUnit framework provides an excellent and efficient way to test and improve .NET code as it's written, saving hundreds of QA hours and headaches.NUnit is one of the most mature and widely-used .NET open source ... Read more

$8.99 CAD

Few .NET developers have the luxury of unlimited code testing once their application is complete, and rushing through the testing process is both problematic and stressful. The open source NUnit framework provides an excellent and efficient way to test and improve .NET code as it's written, saving hundreds of QA hours and headaches.NUnit is one of the most mature and widely-used .NET open source
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Pro TBB

C++ Parallel Programming with Threading Building Blocks

by Michael Voss, Rafael Asenjo, James Reinders ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
This open access book is a modern guide for all C++ programmers to learn Threading Building Blocks (TBB). Written by TBB and parallel programming experts, this book reflects their collective decades of experience in developing and teaching parallel programming with TBB, offering their insights in an approachable manner. Throughout the book the authors present numerous examples and best practices ... Read more

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This open access book is a modern guide for all C++ programmers to learn Threading Building Blocks (TBB). Written by TBB and parallel programming experts, this book reflects their collective decades of experience in developing and teaching parallel programming with TBB, offering their insights in an approachable manner. Throughout the book the authors present numerous examples and best practices
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