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Deep Reinforcement Learning Hands-On

Apply modern RL methods to practical problems of chatbots, robotics, discrete optimization, web automation, and more

by Maxim Lapan ...

Revised and expanded to include multi-agent methods, discrete optimization, RL in robotics, advanced exploration techniques, and moreKey FeaturesSecond edition of the bestselling introduction to deep reinforcement learning, expanded with six new chaptersLearn advanced exploration techniques including noisy networks, pseudo-count, and network distillation methodsApply RL methods to cheap hardware ... Read more

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Revised and expanded to include multi-agent methods, discrete optimization, RL in robotics, advanced exploration techniques, and moreKey FeaturesSecond edition of the bestselling introduction to deep reinforcement learning, expanded with six new chaptersLearn advanced exploration techniques including noisy networks, pseudo-count, and network distillation methodsApply RL methods to cheap hardware
... Read more
Advanced Oracle PL/SQL Developer's Guide (Second Edition)

Master the advanced concepts of PL/SQL for professional-level certification and learn the new capabilities of Oracle Database 12c

by Saurabh K. Gupta ...

Master the advanced concepts of PL/SQL for professional-level certification and learn the new capabilities of Oracle Database 12cKey Features\*Learn advanced application development features of Oracle Database 12c and prepare for the 1Z0-146 examination\*Build robust and secure applications in Oracle PL/SQL using the best practices\*Packed with feature demonstrations and illustrations that will ... Read more

$55.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Master the advanced concepts of PL/SQL for professional-level certification and learn the new capabilities of Oracle Database 12cKey Features\*Learn advanced application development features of Oracle Database 12c and prepare for the 1Z0-146 examination\*Build robust and secure applications in Oracle PL/SQL using the best practices\*Packed with feature demonstrations and illustrations that will
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Python Machine Learning: Introduction to Machine Learning with Python

by Frank Millstein ...

Machine learning is the science of getting machines and computers to act and learn on their own without being programmed explicitly. In just the past decade, this field has given us practical speech recognition, self-driving cars, greatly improved understanding of the overall human genome, effective web search and much more. Therefore, there is no wondering why machine learning is so pervasive ... Read more

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Machine learning is the science of getting machines and computers to act and learn on their own without being programmed explicitly. In just the past decade, this field has given us practical speech recognition, self-driving cars, greatly improved understanding of the overall human genome, effective web search and much more. Therefore, there is no wondering why machine learning is so pervasive
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The Agile Mind-Set

by Gil Broza ...

Are you frustrated or disenchanted by the results of your Agile approach?Does Agile sound like a good idea, but you're not sure how to explain it beyond roles, practices, and meetings?Is your team going through the motions, but it's still business as usual?The missing piece is the Agile mind-set -- the thinking that makes Agile processes work.This book is your compass for the Agile journey. ... Read more

$29.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Are you frustrated or disenchanted by the results of your Agile approach?Does Agile sound like a good idea, but you're not sure how to explain it beyond roles, practices, and meetings?Is your team going through the motions, but it's still business as usual?The missing piece is the Agile mind-set -- the thinking that makes Agile processes work.This book is your compass for the Agile journey.
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WordPress For Beginners

The Simple Guide to Learning WordPress For Website Development Fast!

by Tim Warren ...

WORDPRESS FOR BEGINNERSIn this modern world that is driven by technology, your business must be online. A professional and thoughtful website can get your products and services out to thousands of people. The days of people consulting the Yellow Pages are over, and it is time to look at how business runs in today’s world.There are a variety of excuses like “it costs too much” or “I don’t know how ... Read more

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WORDPRESS FOR BEGINNERSIn this modern world that is driven by technology, your business must be online. A professional and thoughtful website can get your products and services out to thousands of people. The days of people consulting the Yellow Pages are over, and it is time to look at how business runs in today’s world.There are a variety of excuses like “it costs too much” or “I don’t know how
... Read more
Node: Up and Running

Scalable Server-Side Code with JavaScript

by Tom Hughes-Croucher, Emily Wilson ...

This book introduces you to Node, the new web development framework written in JavaScript. You'll learn hands-on how Node makes life easier for experienced JavaScript developers: not only can you work on the front end and back end in the same language, you'll also have more flexibility in choosing how to divide application logic between client and server.Written by a core contributor to the ... Read more

$25.99 CAD

This book introduces you to Node, the new web development framework written in JavaScript. You'll learn hands-on how Node makes life easier for experienced JavaScript developers: not only can you work on the front end and back end in the same language, you'll also have more flexibility in choosing how to divide application logic between client and server.Written by a core contributor to the
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Kubernetes Patterns

Reusable Elements for Designing Cloud Native Applications

by Bilgin Ibryam, Roland Huss ...

The way developers design, build, and run software has changed significantly with the evolution of microservices and containers. These modern architectures offer new distributed primitives that require a different set of practices than many developers, tech leads, and architects are accustomed to. With this focused guide, Bilgin Ibryam and Roland Huss provide common reusable patterns and ... Read more

$57.99 CAD

The way developers design, build, and run software has changed significantly with the evolution of microservices and containers. These modern architectures offer new distributed primitives that require a different set of practices than many developers, tech leads, and architects are accustomed to. With this focused guide, Bilgin Ibryam and Roland Huss provide common reusable patterns and
... Read more
LLMs in Production

Engineering AI Applications

by Christopher Brousseau, Matt Sharp ...

Goes beyond academic discussions deeply into the applications layer of Foundation Models.This practical book offers clear, example-rich explanations of how LLMs work, how you can interact with them, and how to integrate LLMs into your own applications. Find out what makes LLMs so different from traditional software and ML, discover best practices for working with them out of the lab, and dodge ... Read more

$65.99 CAD

Goes beyond academic discussions deeply into the applications layer of Foundation Models.This practical book offers clear, example-rich explanations of how LLMs work, how you can interact with them, and how to integrate LLMs into your own applications. Find out what makes LLMs so different from traditional software and ML, discover best practices for working with them out of the lab, and dodge
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The Art of Debugging with GDB, DDD, and Eclipse

by Norman Matloff, Peter Jay Salzman ...

Debugging is crucial to successful software development, but even many experienced programmers find it challenging. Sophisticated debugging tools are available, yet it may be difficult to determine which features are useful in which situations. The Art of Debugging is your guide to making the debugging process more efficient and effective.The Art of Debugging illustrates the use three of the most ... Read more

$25.99 CAD

Debugging is crucial to successful software development, but even many experienced programmers find it challenging. Sophisticated debugging tools are available, yet it may be difficult to determine which features are useful in which situations. The Art of Debugging is your guide to making the debugging process more efficient and effective.The Art of Debugging illustrates the use three of the most
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Computer and Information Sciences

31st International Symposium, ISCIS 2016, Kraków, Poland, October 27–28, 2016, Proceedings

Edited by Tadeusz Czachórski, Erol Gelenbe, Krzysztof Grochla, Ricardo Lent ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, ISCIS 2016, held in Krakow, Poland, in October 2016.The 29 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on smart algorithms; data classification and processing; stochastic modelling; ... Read more

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 31st International Symposium on Computer and Information Sciences, ISCIS 2016, held in Krakow, Poland, in October 2016.The 29 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 65 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on smart algorithms; data classification and processing; stochastic modelling;
... Read more
Antifragile Systems and Teams

by Dave Zwieback ...

How Can DevOps Make You Antifragile?All complex computer systems eventually break, despite all of the heavy-handed, bureaucratic change-management processes we throw at them. But some systems are clearly more fragile than others, depending on how well they cope with stress. In this O’Reilly report, Dave Zwieback explains how the DevOps methodology can help make your system antifragile.Systems are ... Read more

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How Can DevOps Make You Antifragile?All complex computer systems eventually break, despite all of the heavy-handed, bureaucratic change-management processes we throw at them. But some systems are clearly more fragile than others, depending on how well they cope with stress. In this O’Reilly report, Dave Zwieback explains how the DevOps methodology can help make your system antifragile.Systems are
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Data Wrangling with Python

Tips and Tools to Make Your Life Easier

by Jacqueline Kazil, Katharine Jarmul ...

How do you take your data analysis skills beyond Excel to the next level? By learning just enough Python to get stuff done. This hands-on guide shows non-programmers like you how to process information that’s initially too messy or difficult to access. You don't need to know a thing about the Python programming language to get started.Through various step-by-step exercises, you’ll learn how to ... Read more

$45.99 CAD

How do you take your data analysis skills beyond Excel to the next level? By learning just enough Python to get stuff done. This hands-on guide shows non-programmers like you how to process information that’s initially too messy or difficult to access. You don't need to know a thing about the Python programming language to get started.Through various step-by-step exercises, you’ll learn how to
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Performance Modeling and Design of Computer Systems

Queueing Theory in Action

by Mor Harchol-Balter ...

Tackling the questions that systems designers care about, this book brings queueing theory decisively back to computer science. The book is written with computer scientists and engineers in mind and is full of examples from computer systems, as well as manufacturing and operations research. Fun and readable, the book is highly approachable, even for undergraduates, while still being thoroughly ... Read more

$97.99 CAD

Tackling the questions that systems designers care about, this book brings queueing theory decisively back to computer science. The book is written with computer scientists and engineers in mind and is full of examples from computer systems, as well as manufacturing and operations research. Fun and readable, the book is highly approachable, even for undergraduates, while still being thoroughly
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Practical JavaScript Techniques

by Smashing Magazine ...

Series series Smashing eBooks
Present across millions of websites and growing in popularity, JavaScript is an essential and practical for all programmers, designers and coding aficionados. "Practical JavaScript Techniques" offers expert instruction, tips and methodologies relevant for all levels of knowledge. Learn interactive CSS and jQuery techniques, how to take advantage of JavaScript’s versatile capabilities and even how ... Read more

$7.21 CAD

Present across millions of websites and growing in popularity, JavaScript is an essential and practical for all programmers, designers and coding aficionados. "Practical JavaScript Techniques" offers expert instruction, tips and methodologies relevant for all levels of knowledge. Learn interactive CSS and jQuery techniques, how to take advantage of JavaScript’s versatile capabilities and even how
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Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives

by Ben Linders, Luis Goncalves ...

Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives helps you and your teams to do retrospectives effectively and efficiently. It's a toolbox with many exercises for facilitating retrospectives, supported with the "what" and "why" of retrospectives, the business value and benefits that they bring, and advice for introducing and improving retrospectives.If you are a Scrum master, agile coach, project manager ... Read more

$13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Getting Value out of Agile Retrospectives helps you and your teams to do retrospectives effectively and efficiently. It's a toolbox with many exercises for facilitating retrospectives, supported with the "what" and "why" of retrospectives, the business value and benefits that they bring, and advice for introducing and improving retrospectives.If you are a Scrum master, agile coach, project manager
... Read more
Write Great Code, Volume 1, 2nd Edition

Understanding the Machine

by Randall Hyde ...

Understanding the Machine, the first volume in the landmark Write Great Code series by Randall Hyde, explains the underlying mechanics of how a computer works.This, the first volume in Randall Hyde's Write Great Code series, dives into machine organization without the extra overhead of learning assembly language programming. Written for high-level language programmers, Understanding the Machine ... Read more

$42.99 CAD

Understanding the Machine, the first volume in the landmark Write Great Code series by Randall Hyde, explains the underlying mechanics of how a computer works.This, the first volume in Randall Hyde's Write Great Code series, dives into machine organization without the extra overhead of learning assembly language programming. Written for high-level language programmers, Understanding the Machine
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Learning Deep Learning

Theory and Practice of Neural Networks, Computer Vision, Natural Language Processing, and Transformers Using TensorFlow

by Magnus Ekman ...

NVIDIA's Full-Color Guide to Deep Learning: All You Need to Get Started and Get Results"To enable everyone to be part of this historic revolution requires the democratization of AI knowledge and resources. This book is timely and relevant towards accomplishing these lofty goals."-- From the foreword by Dr. Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor, Caltech, and Director of ML Research, NVIDIA"Ekman uses a ... Read more

$57.99 CAD

NVIDIA's Full-Color Guide to Deep Learning: All You Need to Get Started and Get Results"To enable everyone to be part of this historic revolution requires the democratization of AI knowledge and resources. This book is timely and relevant towards accomplishing these lofty goals."-- From the foreword by Dr. Anima Anandkumar, Bren Professor, Caltech, and Director of ML Research, NVIDIA"Ekman uses a
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Programming in Go

Creating Applications for the 21st Century

by Mark Summerfield ...

Series series Developer's Library
Your Hands-On Guide to Go, the Revolutionary New Language Designed for Concurrency, Multicore Hardware, and Programmer ConvenienceToday’s most exciting new programming language, Go, is designed from the ground up to help you easily leverage all the power of today’s multicore hardware. With this guide, pioneering Go programmer Mark Summerfield shows how to write code that takes full advantage of Go ... Read more

$42.99 CAD

Your Hands-On Guide to Go, the Revolutionary New Language Designed for Concurrency, Multicore Hardware, and Programmer ConvenienceToday’s most exciting new programming language, Go, is designed from the ground up to help you easily leverage all the power of today’s multicore hardware. With this guide, pioneering Go programmer Mark Summerfield shows how to write code that takes full advantage of Go
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Learning AngularJS

A Guide to AngularJS Development

by Ken Williamson ...

With AngularJS, you can quickly build client-side applications that run well on any desktop or mobile platform, using REST web services for backend processes. You may have heard that the learning curve for this JavaScript MVC framework is too steep, but that’s not the case. This practical guide provides a hands-on approach to learning AngularJS that will have you building high-quality applications ... Read more

$27.99 CAD

With AngularJS, you can quickly build client-side applications that run well on any desktop or mobile platform, using REST web services for backend processes. You may have heard that the learning curve for this JavaScript MVC framework is too steep, but that’s not the case. This practical guide provides a hands-on approach to learning AngularJS that will have you building high-quality applications
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Introducing Regular Expressions

Unraveling Regular Expressions, Step-by-Step

by Michael Fitzgerald ...

If you’re a programmer new to regular expressions, this easy-to-follow guide is a great place to start. You’ll learn the fundamentals step-by-step with the help of numerous examples, discovering first-hand how to match, extract, and transform text by matching specific words, characters, and patterns.Regular expressions are an essential part of a programmer’s toolkit, available in various Unix ... Read more

$28.99 CAD

If you’re a programmer new to regular expressions, this easy-to-follow guide is a great place to start. You’ll learn the fundamentals step-by-step with the help of numerous examples, discovering first-hand how to match, extract, and transform text by matching specific words, characters, and patterns.Regular expressions are an essential part of a programmer’s toolkit, available in various Unix
... Read more
Python Machine Learning: Machine Learning Algorithms for Beginners - Data Management and Analytics for Approaching Deep Learning and Neural Networks from Scratch

by Ahmed Ph. Abbasi ...

How can a beginner approach machine learning with Python from scratch?Why exactly is machine learning such a hot topic right now in the business world?Ahmed Ph. Abbasi will lead you from being a complete beginner in learning a sound method of data analysis that uses algorithms, which learn from data and produce actionable and valuable information.The basis for understanding deep learning and ... Read more

$3.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

How can a beginner approach machine learning with Python from scratch?Why exactly is machine learning such a hot topic right now in the business world?Ahmed Ph. Abbasi will lead you from being a complete beginner in learning a sound method of data analysis that uses algorithms, which learn from data and produce actionable and valuable information.The basis for understanding deep learning and
... Read more
Node.js Design Patterns

Master best practices to build modular and scalable server-side web applications

by Mario Casciaro, Luciano Mammino ...

Get the best out of Node.js by mastering its most powerful components and patterns to create modular and scalable applications with easeKey Features\[\*\] Create reusable patterns and modules by leveraging the new features of Node.js .\[\*\] Understand the asynchronous single thread design of node and grasp all its features and patterns to take advantage of various functions.\[\*\] This unique ... Read more

$47.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Get the best out of Node.js by mastering its most powerful components and patterns to create modular and scalable applications with easeKey Features\[\*\] Create reusable patterns and modules by leveraging the new features of Node.js .\[\*\] Understand the asynchronous single thread design of node and grasp all its features and patterns to take advantage of various functions.\[\*\] This unique
... Read more
Mastering Spring 5.0

Master reactive programming, microservices, Cloud Native applications, and more

by In28Minutes Official ...

Develop cloud native applications with microservices using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Spring Cloud Data FlowKey Features\[\*\] Explore the new features and components in Spring\[\*\] Evolve towards micro services and cloud native applications\[\*\] Gain powerful insights into advanced concepts of Spring and Spring Boot to develop applications more effectively\[\*\] Understand the basics of ... Read more

$47.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Develop cloud native applications with microservices using Spring Boot, Spring Cloud, and Spring Cloud Data FlowKey Features\[\*\] Explore the new features and components in Spring\[\*\] Evolve towards micro services and cloud native applications\[\*\] Gain powerful insights into advanced concepts of Spring and Spring Boot to develop applications more effectively\[\*\] Understand the basics of
... Read more
Node.js Web Development

Server-side web development made easy with Node 14 using practical examples

by David Herron ...

Build scalable web applications using Node.js, Express.js, and the latest ECMAScript techniques, along with deploying applications with AWS and Docker with this updated fifth editionKey FeaturesLearn backend web programming with the JavaScript stackExplore best practices, right from configuring and building web servers to deploying them on a production cloud hosting system: AWS using Docker and ... Read more

$37.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Build scalable web applications using Node.js, Express.js, and the latest ECMAScript techniques, along with deploying applications with AWS and Docker with this updated fifth editionKey FeaturesLearn backend web programming with the JavaScript stackExplore best practices, right from configuring and building web servers to deploying them on a production cloud hosting system: AWS using Docker and
... Read more

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