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CMake Cookbook

Building, testing, and packaging modular software with modern CMake

by Radovan Bast, Roberto Di Remigio ...

Learn CMake through a series of task-based recipes that provide you with practical, simple, and ready-to-use CMake solutions for your codeKey FeaturesLearn to configure, build, test, and package software written in C, C++, and FortranProgress from simple to advanced tasks with examples tested on Linux, macOS, and WindowsManage code complexity and library dependencies with reusable CMake building ... Read more

$51.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Learn CMake through a series of task-based recipes that provide you with practical, simple, and ready-to-use CMake solutions for your codeKey FeaturesLearn to configure, build, test, and package software written in C, C++, and FortranProgress from simple to advanced tasks with examples tested on Linux, macOS, and WindowsManage code complexity and library dependencies with reusable CMake building
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Data Storytelling with Google Looker Studio

A hands-on guide to using Looker Studio for building compelling and effective dashboards

by Sireesha Pulipati ...

Apply data storytelling concepts and analytical thinking to create dashboards and reports in Looker Studio to aid data-driven decision makingKey FeaturesGain a solid understanding of data visualization principles and learn to apply them effectivelyGet to grips with the concepts and features of Looker Studio to create powerful data storiesExplore the end-to-end process of building dashboards with ... Read more

$52.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

Apply data storytelling concepts and analytical thinking to create dashboards and reports in Looker Studio to aid data-driven decision makingKey FeaturesGain a solid understanding of data visualization principles and learn to apply them effectivelyGet to grips with the concepts and features of Looker Studio to create powerful data storiesExplore the end-to-end process of building dashboards with
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Human-Centered AI

by Ben Shneiderman ...

The remarkable progress in algorithms for machine and deep learning have opened the doors to new opportunities, and some dark possibilities. However, a bright future awaits those who build on their working methods by including HCAI strategies of design and testing. As many technology companies and thought leaders have argued, the goal is not to replace people, but to empower them by making design ... Read more

$14.39 CAD

The remarkable progress in algorithms for machine and deep learning have opened the doors to new opportunities, and some dark possibilities. However, a bright future awaits those who build on their working methods by including HCAI strategies of design and testing. As many technology companies and thought leaders have argued, the goal is not to replace people, but to empower them by making design
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Learn PHP 8

Using MySQL, JavaScript, CSS3, and HTML5

by Steve Prettyman ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Write solid, secure, object-oriented code in the new PHP 8. In this book you will create a complete three-tier application using a natural process of building and testing modules within each tier. This practical approach teaches you about app development and introduces PHP features when they are actually needed rather than providing you with abstract theory and contrived examples.In Learn PHP 8, ... Read more

$56.29 CAD

Write solid, secure, object-oriented code in the new PHP 8. In this book you will create a complete three-tier application using a natural process of building and testing modules within each tier. This practical approach teaches you about app development and introduces PHP features when they are actually needed rather than providing you with abstract theory and contrived examples.In Learn PHP 8,
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The Customer-Driven Playbook

Converting Customer Feedback into Successful Products

by Travis Lowdermilk, Jessica Rich ...

Despite the wide acceptance of Lean approaches and customer-development strategies, many product teams still have difficulty putting these principles into meaningful action. That’s where The Customer-Driven Playbook comes in. This practical guide provides a complete end-to-end process that will help you understand customers, identify their problems, conceptualize new ideas, and create fantastic ... Read more

$45.59 CAD

Despite the wide acceptance of Lean approaches and customer-development strategies, many product teams still have difficulty putting these principles into meaningful action. That’s where The Customer-Driven Playbook comes in. This practical guide provides a complete end-to-end process that will help you understand customers, identify their problems, conceptualize new ideas, and create fantastic
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100 More Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People

by Susan Weinschenk, Guthrie Weinschenk ...

Series series 100 Things
Thousands of designers, marketers, and product managers have come to rely on Susan Weinschenk's original 100 Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People as a "go to" for practical advice on how to use the latest findings in psychology and neuroscience to directly inform and improve their designs, brands, and products. Research hasn't stopped since the book was written, and new design ... Read more

$9.59 CAD

Thousands of designers, marketers, and product managers have come to rely on Susan Weinschenk's original 100 Things Every Designer Needs To Know About People as a "go to" for practical advice on how to use the latest findings in psychology and neuroscience to directly inform and improve their designs, brands, and products. Research hasn't stopped since the book was written, and new design
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Getting Started with CouchDB

Extreme Scalability at Your Fingertips

by MC Brown ...

CouchDB is a new breed of database for the Internet, geared to meet the needs of today’s dynamic web applications. With this concise introduction, you’ll learn how CouchDB’s simple model for storing, processing, and accessing data makes it ideal for the type of data and rapid response users now demand from your applications—and how easy CouchDB is to set up, deploy, maintain, and scale.The code ... Read more

$14.39 CAD

CouchDB is a new breed of database for the Internet, geared to meet the needs of today’s dynamic web applications. With this concise introduction, you’ll learn how CouchDB’s simple model for storing, processing, and accessing data makes it ideal for the type of data and rapid response users now demand from your applications—and how easy CouchDB is to set up, deploy, maintain, and scale.The code
... Read more
How to Speak Tech

The Non-Techie’s Guide to Key Technology Concepts

by Vinay Trivedi ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Things you’ve done online: ordered a pizza, checked the weather, booked a hotel, and reconnected with long-lost friends. Now it’s time to find out how these things work. Vinay Trivedi peels back the mystery of the Internet, explains it all in the simplest terms, and gives you the knowledge you need to speak confidently when the subject turns to technology.This revised second edition of How to ... Read more

$41.89 CAD

Things you’ve done online: ordered a pizza, checked the weather, booked a hotel, and reconnected with long-lost friends. Now it’s time to find out how these things work. Vinay Trivedi peels back the mystery of the Internet, explains it all in the simplest terms, and gives you the knowledge you need to speak confidently when the subject turns to technology.This revised second edition of How to
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Reversible Computation: Extending Horizons of Computing

Selected Results of the COST Action IC1405

Edited by Irek Ulidowski, Ivan Lanese, Ulrik Pagh Schultz, Carla Ferreira ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This open access State-of-the-Art Survey presents the main recent scientific outcomes in the area of reversible computation, focusing on those that have emerged during COST Action IC1405 "Reversible Computation - Extending Horizons of Computing", a European research network that operated from May 2015 to April 2019.Reversible computation is a new paradigm that extends the traditional forwards-only ... Read more

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This open access State-of-the-Art Survey presents the main recent scientific outcomes in the area of reversible computation, focusing on those that have emerged during COST Action IC1405 "Reversible Computation - Extending Horizons of Computing", a European research network that operated from May 2015 to April 2019.Reversible computation is a new paradigm that extends the traditional forwards-only
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Programming Languages and Systems

28th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2019, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2019, Prague, Czech Republic, April 6–11, 2019, Proceedings

Edited by Luís Caires ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 28th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2019, which took place in Prague, Czech Republic, in April 2019, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2019. ... Read more

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This open access book constitutes the proceedings of the 28th European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2019, which took place in Prague, Czech Republic, in April 2019, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2019.
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Prompt Engineering for Beginners: Boost Your Career and Skills with the Art of Talking to AI

by Gerald Confienza ...

Imagine guiding a powerful intelligence—entirely silent yet boundless—using nothing but your words.A pioneering study of 243 professionals and students across diverse fields found that those using clear, structured, and context-aware prompts reported significantly higher task efficiency and better outcomes when working with large language models like ChatGPT or Gemini (arXiv, 2025).The difference ... Read more

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Imagine guiding a powerful intelligence—entirely silent yet boundless—using nothing but your words.A pioneering study of 243 professionals and students across diverse fields found that those using clear, structured, and context-aware prompts reported significantly higher task efficiency and better outcomes when working with large language models like ChatGPT or Gemini (arXiv, 2025).The difference
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UI is Communication

How to Design Intuitive, User Centered Interfaces by Focusing on Effective Communication

by Everett N McKay ...

User interface design is a challenging, multi-disciplinary activity that requires understanding a wide range of concepts and techniques that are often subjective and even conflicting. Imagine how much it would help if there were a single perspective that you could use to simplify these complex issues down to a small set of objective principles. In UI is Communication, Everett McKay explains how to ... Read more

$39.99 CAD

User interface design is a challenging, multi-disciplinary activity that requires understanding a wide range of concepts and techniques that are often subjective and even conflicting. Imagine how much it would help if there were a single perspective that you could use to simplify these complex issues down to a small set of objective principles. In UI is Communication, Everett McKay explains how to
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Design Patterns in Modern C++

Reusable Approaches for Object-Oriented Software Design

by Dmitri Nesteruk ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Apply modern C++17 to the implementations of classic design patterns. As well as covering traditional design patterns, this book fleshes out new patterns and approaches that will be useful to C++ developers. The author presents concepts as a fun investigation of how problems can be solved in different ways, along the way using varying degrees of technical sophistication and explaining different ... Read more

$63.49 CAD

Apply modern C++17 to the implementations of classic design patterns. As well as covering traditional design patterns, this book fleshes out new patterns and approaches that will be useful to C++ developers. The author presents concepts as a fun investigation of how problems can be solved in different ways, along the way using varying degrees of technical sophistication and explaining different
... Read more
Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering

21st International Conference, FASE 2018, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018, Thessaloniki, Greece, April 14-20, 2018, Proceedings

Edited by Alessandra Russo, Andy Schürr ...

Series series Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science
This book is Open Access under a CC BY licence.This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2018, which took place in Thessaloniki, Greece in April 2018, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018.The 19 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and ... Read more

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This book is Open Access under a CC BY licence.This book constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, FASE 2018, which took place in Thessaloniki, Greece in April 2018, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2018.The 19 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and
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The Science of Citizen Science

Edited by Katrin Vohland, Anne Land-zandstra, Luigi Ceccaroni, Rob Lemmens, Josep Perelló, Marisa Ponti, Roeland Samson, Katherin Wagenknecht ...

Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
This open access book discusses how the involvement of citizens into scientific endeavors is expected to contribute to solve the big challenges of our time, such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity, growing inequalities within and between societies, and the sustainability turn. The field of citizen science has been growing in recent decades. Many different stakeholders from scientists ... Read more

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This open access book discusses how the involvement of citizens into scientific endeavors is expected to contribute to solve the big challenges of our time, such as climate change and the loss of biodiversity, growing inequalities within and between societies, and the sustainability turn. The field of citizen science has been growing in recent decades. Many different stakeholders from scientists
... Read more
Musical Haptics

Edited by Stefano Papetti, Charalampos Saitis ...

Series series Computer Science (R0)
This open access book offers an original interdisciplinary overview of the role of haptic feedback in musical interaction. Divided into two parts, part I examines the tactile aspects of music performance and perception, discussing how they affect user experience and performance in terms of usability, functionality and perceived quality of musical instruments. Part II presents engineering, ... Read more

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This open access book offers an original interdisciplinary overview of the role of haptic feedback in musical interaction. Divided into two parts, part I examines the tactile aspects of music performance and perception, discussing how they affect user experience and performance in terms of usability, functionality and perceived quality of musical instruments. Part II presents engineering,
... Read more
Essential TypeScript 4

From Beginner to Pro

by Adam Freeman ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Learn the essentials and more of TypeScript, a popular superset of the JavaScript language that adds support for static typing. TypeScript combines the typing features of C# or Java with the flexibility of JavaScript, reducing typing errors and providing an easier path to JavaScript development.Author Adam Freeman explains how to get the most from TypeScript 4 in this second edition of his best ... Read more

$80.19 CAD

Learn the essentials and more of TypeScript, a popular superset of the JavaScript language that adds support for static typing. TypeScript combines the typing features of C# or Java with the flexibility of JavaScript, reducing typing errors and providing an easier path to JavaScript development.Author Adam Freeman explains how to get the most from TypeScript 4 in this second edition of his best
... Read more
Building Machine Learning Powered Applications

Going from Idea to Product

by Emmanuel Ameisen ...

Learn the skills necessary to design, build, and deploy applications powered by machine learning (ML). Through the course of this hands-on book, you’ll build an example ML-driven application from initial idea to deployed product. Data scientists, software engineers, and product managers—including experienced practitioners and novices alike—will learn the tools, best practices, and challenges ... Read more

$57.59 CAD

Learn the skills necessary to design, build, and deploy applications powered by machine learning (ML). Through the course of this hands-on book, you’ll build an example ML-driven application from initial idea to deployed product. Data scientists, software engineers, and product managers—including experienced practitioners and novices alike—will learn the tools, best practices, and challenges
... Read more
Pro React

by Cassio de Sousa Antonio ...

Series series Professional and Applied Computing (R0)
Pro React teaches you how to successfully structure increasingly complex front-end applications and interfaces. This book explores the React library in depth, as well as detailing additional tools and libraries in the React ecosystem, enabling you to create complete, complex applications.You will learn how to use React completely, and learn best practices for creating interfaces in a composable ... Read more

$47.89 CAD

Pro React teaches you how to successfully structure increasingly complex front-end applications and interfaces. This book explores the React library in depth, as well as detailing additional tools and libraries in the React ecosystem, enabling you to create complete, complex applications.You will learn how to use React completely, and learn best practices for creating interfaces in a composable
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Redis Cookbook

Practical Techniques for Fast Data Manipulation

by Tiago Macedo, Fred Oliveira ...

Two years since its initial release, Redis already has an impressive list of adopters, including Engine Yard, GitHub, Craigslist, and Digg. This open source data structure server is built for speed and flexibility, making it ideal for many applications. If you're using Redis, or considering it, this concise cookbook provides recipes for a variety of issues you're likely to face.Each recipe solves ... Read more

$14.39 CAD

Two years since its initial release, Redis already has an impressive list of adopters, including Engine Yard, GitHub, Craigslist, and Digg. This open source data structure server is built for speed and flexibility, making it ideal for many applications. If you're using Redis, or considering it, this concise cookbook provides recipes for a variety of issues you're likely to face.Each recipe solves
... Read more
Fluent React

Build Fast, Performant, and Intuitive Web Applications

by Tejas Kumar ...

When it comes to building user interfaces on the web, React enables web developers to unlock a new world of possibilities. This practical book helps you take a deep dive into fundamental concepts of this JavaScript library, including JSX syntax and advanced patterns, the virtual DOM, React reconciliation, and advanced optimization techniques. By becoming fluent in React, you'll quickly learn how ... Read more

$57.59 CAD

When it comes to building user interfaces on the web, React enables web developers to unlock a new world of possibilities. This practical book helps you take a deep dive into fundamental concepts of this JavaScript library, including JSX syntax and advanced patterns, the virtual DOM, React reconciliation, and advanced optimization techniques. By becoming fluent in React, you'll quickly learn how
... Read more
3ds Max 8 MAXScript Essentials

by Autodesk ...

Write your own MAXScript functions and utilities to create custom tools and UI elements, and automate repetitive tasks. Demonstrated techniques include the creation of objects, arrays, collections, control structures, parametric objects, and the construction of UI elements. The downloadable resources contain media files that allow you to practice the techniques with real-world examples ... Read more

$83.81 CAD

Write your own MAXScript functions and utilities to create custom tools and UI elements, and automate repetitive tasks. Demonstrated techniques include the creation of objects, arrays, collections, control structures, parametric objects, and the construction of UI elements. The downloadable resources contain media files that allow you to practice the techniques with real-world examples
... Read more
Introducing JavaFX 8 Programming

by Herbert Schildt ...

Series series Oracle Press
Develop cross-platform, feature-rich JavaFX GUI applications with expert instruction from Java guru Herb SchildtIntroducing JavaFX 8 Programming provides a fast-paced introduction to JavaFX, Java’s next-generation GUI programming toolIn this easy-to-read guide from Oracle Press, Java guru Herb Schildt presents the key topics and concepts that all Java developers will need to begin developing ... Read more

$51.69 CAD

Develop cross-platform, feature-rich JavaFX GUI applications with expert instruction from Java guru Herb SchildtIntroducing JavaFX 8 Programming provides a fast-paced introduction to JavaFX, Java’s next-generation GUI programming toolIn this easy-to-read guide from Oracle Press, Java guru Herb Schildt presents the key topics and concepts that all Java developers will need to begin developing
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Engineering a Compiler

by Keith D. Cooper, Linda Torczon ...

Engineering a Compiler, Third Edition covers the latest developments in compiler technology, with new chapters focusing on semantic elaboration (the problems that arise in generating code from the ad-hoc syntax-directed translation schemes in a generated parser), on runtime support for naming and addressability, and on code shape for expressions, assignments and control-structures. Leading ... Read more

$70.39 CAD

Engineering a Compiler, Third Edition covers the latest developments in compiler technology, with new chapters focusing on semantic elaboration (the problems that arise in generating code from the ad-hoc syntax-directed translation schemes in a generated parser), on runtime support for naming and addressability, and on code shape for expressions, assignments and control-structures. Leading
... Read more

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