Tap into the wisdom of experts to learn what every programmer should know, no matter what language you use. With the 97 short and extremely useful tips for programmers in this book, you'll expand your skills by adopting new approaches to old problems, learning appropriate best practices, and honing your craft through sound advice.With contributions from some of the most experienced and respected practitioners in the industry--including Michael Feathers, Pete Goodliffe, Diomidis Spinellis, Cay Horstmann, Verity Stob, and many more--this book contains practical knowledge and principles that you can apply to all kinds of projects.A few of the 97 things you should know:"e;Code in the Language of the Domain"e; by Dan North"e;Write Tests for People"e; by Gerard Meszaros"e;Convenience Is Not an -ility"e; by Gregor Hohpe"e;Know Your IDE"e; by Heinz Kabutz"e;A Message to the Future"e; by Linda Rising"e;The Boy Scout Rule"e; by Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob)"e;Beware the Share"e; by Udi Dahan
Learn the data skills necessary for turning large sequencing datasets into reproducible and robust biological findings. With this practical guide, youll learn how to use freely available open source tools to extract meaning from large complex biological data sets.At no other point in human history has our ability to understand lifes complexities been so dependent on our skills to work with and analyze data. This intermediate-level book teaches the general computational and data skills you need to analyze biological data. If you have experience with a scripting language like Python, youre ready to get started.Go from handling small problems with messy scripts to tackling large problems with clever methods and toolsProcess bioinformatics data with powerful Unix pipelines and data toolsLearn how to use exploratory data analysis techniques in the R languageUse efficient methods to work with genomic range data and range operationsWork with common genomics data file formats like FASTA, FASTQ, SAM, and BAMManage your bioinformatics project with the Git version control systemTackle tedious data processing tasks with with Bash scripts and Makefiles
The popularity of REST in recent years has led to tremendous growth in almost-RESTful APIs that dont include many of the architectures benefits. With this practical guide, youll learn what it takes to design usable REST APIs that evolve over time. By focusing on solutions that cross a variety of domains, this book shows you how to create powerful and secure applications, using the tools designed for the worlds most successful distributed computing system: the World Wide Web.Youll explore the concepts behind REST, learn different strategies for creating hypermedia-based APIs, and then put everything together with a step-by-step guide to designing a RESTful Web API.Examine API design strategies, including the collection pattern and pure hypermediaUnderstand how hypermedia ties representations together into a coherent APIDiscover how XMDP and ALPS profile formats can help you meet the Web API "e;semantic challenge"e;Learn close to two-dozen standardized hypermedia data formatsApply best practices for using HTTP in API implementationsCreate Web APIs with the JSON-LD standard and other the Linked Data approachesUnderstand the CoAP protocol for using REST in embedded systems
Interested in developing embedded systems? Since they dont tolerate inefficiency, these systems require a disciplined approach to programming. This easy-to-read guide helps you cultivate a host of good development practices, based on classic software design patterns and new patterns unique to embedded programming. Learn how to build system architecture for processors, not operating systems, and discover specific techniques for dealing with hardware difficulties and manufacturing requirements.Written by an expert whos created embedded systems ranging from urban surveillance and DNA scanners to childrens toys, this book is ideal for intermediate and experienced programmers, no matter what platform you use.Optimize your system to reduce cost and increase performanceDevelop an architecture that makes your software robust in resource-constrained environmentsExplore sensors, motors, and other I/O devicesDo more with less: reduce RAM consumption, code space, processor cycles, and power consumptionLearn how to update embedded code directly in the processorDiscover how to implement complex mathematics on small processorsUnderstand what interviewers look for when you apply for an embedded systems job"e;Making Embedded Systems is the book for a C programmer who wants to enter the fun (and lucrative) world of embedded systems. Its very well writtenentertaining, evenand filled with clear illustrations."e;Jack Ganssle, author and embedded system expert.
Build interactive, data-driven websites with the potent combination of open-source technologies and web standards, even if you have only basic HTML knowledge. With this popular hands-on guide, youll tackle dynamic web programming with the help of todays core technologies: PHP, MySQL, JavaScript, jQuery, CSS, and HTML5.Explore each technology separately, learn how to use them together, and pick up valuable web programming practices along the way. At the end of the book, youll put everything together to build a fully functional social networking site, using XAMPP or any development stack you choose.Learn PHP in-depth, along with the basics of object-oriented programmingExplore MySQL, from database structure to complex queriesUse the MySQLi Extension, PHPs improved MySQL interfaceCreate dynamic PHP web pages that tailor themselves to the userManage cookies and sessions, and maintain a high level of securityMaster the JavaScript languageand enhance it with jQueryUse Ajax calls for background browser/server communicationAcquire CSS2 and CSS3 skills for professionally styling your web pagesImplement all of the new HTML5 features, including geolocation, audio, video, and the canvas
"e;The computer world is like an intellectual Wild West, in which you can shoot anyone you wish with your ideas, if you're willing to risk the consequences. "e; --from Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul GrahamWe are living in the computer age, in a world increasingly designed and engineered by computer programmers and software designers, by people who call themselves hackers. Who are these people, what motivates them, and why should you care?Consider these facts: Everything around us is turning into computers. Your typewriter is gone, replaced by a computer. Your phone has turned into a computer. So has your camera. Soon your TV will. Your car was not only designed on computers, but has more processing power in it than a room-sized mainframe did in 1970. Letters, encyclopedias, newspapers, and even your local store are being replaced by the Internet.Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, by Paul Graham, explains this world and the motivations of the people who occupy it. In clear, thoughtful prose that draws on illuminating historical examples, Graham takes readers on an unflinching exploration into what he calls "e;an intellectual Wild West."e;The ideas discussed in this book will have a powerful and lasting impact on how we think, how we work, how we develop technology, and how we live. Topics include the importance of beauty in software design, how to make wealth, heresy and free speech, the programming language renaissance, the open-source movement, digital design, internet startups, and more.
Improve your understanding of Scrum through the proven experience and collected wisdom of experts around the world. Based on real-life experiences, the 97 essays in this unique book provide a wealth of knowledge and expertise from established practitioners who have dealt with specific problems and challenges with Scrum.Youll find out more about the rules and roles of this framework, as well as tactics, strategies, specific patterns to use with Scrum, and stories from the trenches. Youll also gain insights on how to apply, tune, and tweak Scrum for your work. This guide is an ideal resource for people new to Scrum and those who want to assess and improve their understanding of this framework."e;Scrum Is Simple. Just Use It As Is.,"e; Ken Schwaber"e;The 'Standing Meeting,'"e; Bob WarfieldSpecialization Is for Insects, James O. Coplien"e;Scrum Events Are Rituals to Ensure Good Harvest,"e; Jasper LamersServant Leadership Starts from Within, Bob Galen"e;Agile Is More than Sprinting,"e; James W. Grenning
How can you decide whether this career move is right for you? And if you do, what do you need to learn to succeed? Where do you start? How do you know that you're doing it right? What does "it" even mean? And isn't management a dirty word? This book will share the secrets you need to know to manage engineers successfully
Today, software engineers need to know not only how to program effectively but also how to develop proper engineering practices to make their codebase sustainable and healthy. This book emphasizes this difference between programming and software engineering.How can software engineers manage a living codebase that evolves and responds to changing requirements and demands over the length of its life? Based on their experience at Google, software engineers Titus Winters and Hyrum Wright, along with technical writer Tom Manshreck, present a candid and insightful look at how some of the worlds leading practitioners construct and maintain software. This book covers Googles unique engineering culture, processes, and tools and how these aspects contribute to the effectiveness of an engineering organization.Youll explore three fundamental principles that software organizations should keep in mind when designing, architecting, writing, and maintaining code:How time affects the sustainability of software and how to make your code resilient over timeHow scale affects the viability of software practices within an engineering organizationWhat trade-offs a typical engineer needs to make when evaluating design and development decisions
The Autodesk Fusion 360 Basics Tutorial book helps you to learn parametric modeling using the Autodesk Fusion 360 software. This book will get you started with the basics of part modeling, assembly modeling, animations, and drawings. Next, it teaches you some additional part modeling tools, top-down assembly feature, assembly joints, and dimension & annotations. Brief explanations, practical examples, and stepwise instructions make this tutorial a useful guide.
The aim of the book is to teach you the fundamentals of the Kotlin language. This book will be an update based on the latest major version of Kotlin 1.3. This book provides a detailed introduction to Kotlin that shows you all its features and will enable you to write Kotlin code to production.
Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central is the new SaaS ERP proposition by Microsoft. The latest version comes has many exciting features guaranteed to make your life easier. This book is an ideal guide to Dynamics 365 and will help you get started with implementing and designing solutions for real-world scenarios.
Most of the GNU Emacs integrated environment is written in the programming language called Emacs Lisp. The code written in this programming language is the software (the sets of instructions) that tell the computer what to do when you give it commands. Emacs is designed so that you can write new code in Emacs Lisp and easily install it as an extension to the editor. This introduction to Emacs Lisp is designed to get you started: to guide you in learning the fundamentals of programming, and more importantly, to show you how you can teach yourself to go further. This manual is available online for free at gnu.org. This manual is printed in grayscale.
Incident response is critical for the active defense of any network, and incident responders need up-to-date, immediately applicable techniques with which to engage the adversary. Applied Incident Response details effective ways to respond to advanced attacks against local and remote network resources, providing proven response techniques and a framework through which to apply them. As a starting point for new incident handlers, or as a technical reference for hardened IR veterans, this book details the latest techniques for responding to threats against your network, including:* Preparing your environment for effective incident response* Leveraging MITRE ATT&CK and threat intelligence for active network defense* Local and remote triage of systems using PowerShell, WMIC, and open-source tools* Acquiring RAM and disk images locally and remotely* Analyzing RAM with Volatility and Rekall* Deep-dive forensic analysis of system drives using open-source or commercial tools* Leveraging Security Onion and Elastic Stack for network security monitoring* Techniques for log analysis and aggregating high-value logs* Static and dynamic analysis of malware with YARA rules, FLARE VM, and Cuckoo Sandbox* Detecting and responding to lateral movement techniques, including pass-the-hash, pass-the-ticket, Kerberoasting, malicious use of PowerShell, and many more* Effective threat hunting techniques* Adversary emulation with Atomic Red Team* Improving preventive and detective controls
The Complete Book of Mario celebrates Nintendo's greatest star from Super Mario Bros to Super Mario Odyssey and every aspect of the popular character.
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Consultant editor:Cath Caldwell is Senior Lecturer at Central Saint Martins, the world-leading college for art and design education at University of the Arts London. She is a former Design Director at ELLE UK, having also worked for the Guardian and Cond¿ast (New York). She is the author of two books on graphic design and co-founder of the Editorial Designers Organisation.Contibuting authors:Johnny Belknap is a native New Yorker who cut his design teeth on the iconic Village Voice newspaper in the 1970s. He moved on to art director roles at oublications including the New York Times, the Sunday Telegraph Magazine, and the Jewish Chronicle, as well as running his own design studio.Jamie Sanchez Hearn is a graphic designer and lecturer, specializing in Typography, Branding, and Editorial Design. Jamie worked for several international design agencies before forming his own design studio. He currently teaches at Central Saint Martins and is a fellow of the UK's Higher Education Academy.Emily Wood is a graphic designer and lecturer. She has worked for leading design studios Pentagram, Johnson Banks, and Bloom, and with a range of cultural organizations, including London's V&A Museum and Amnesty International. Emily's research is focused on sustainability through education and design. Julia Woollams is a graphic designer, branding consultant, lecturer, and co-founder of creative consultancy 31% Wool. She specializes in cultural and not-for-profit sectors and has worked with organizations including the Science Museum, the Sendai Observatory, the University of Cambridge, and UNICEF UK.
Many industry experts consider unsupervised learning the next frontier in artificial intelligence, one that may hold the key to general artificial intelligence. Since the majority of the world's data is unlabeled, conventional supervised learning cannot be applied. Unsupervised learning, on the other hand, can be applied to unlabeled datasets to discover meaningful patterns buried deep in the data, patterns that may be near impossible for humans to uncover.Author Ankur Patel shows you how to apply unsupervised learning using two simple, production-ready Python frameworks: Scikit-learn and TensorFlow using Keras. With code and hands-on examples, data scientists will identify difficult-to-find patterns in data and gain deeper business insight, detect anomalies, perform automatic feature engineering and selection, and generate synthetic datasets. All you need is programming and some machine learning experience to get started.Compare the strengths and weaknesses of the different machine learning approaches: supervised, unsupervised, and reinforcement learningSet up and manage machine learning projects end-to-endBuild an anomaly detection system to catch credit card fraudClusters users into distinct and homogeneous groupsPerform semisupervised learningDevelop movie recommender systems using restricted Boltzmann machinesGenerate synthetic images using generative adversarial networks
Learn to use PowerShell, Microsoft's scripting language, to automate real-world tasks that IT professionals and system administrators deal with every day.
Deep learning is one of today's hottest fields. This approach to machine learning is achieving breakthrough results in some of today's highest profile applications, in organizations ranging from Google to Tesla, Facebook to Apple. Thousands of technical professionals and students want to start leveraging its power, but previous books on deep learning have often been non-intuitive, inaccessible, and dry. In Deep Learning Illustrated, three world-class instructors and practitioners present a uniquely visual, intuitive, and accessible high-level introduction to the techniques and applications of deep learning. Packed with vibrant, full-color illustrations, it abstracts away much of the complexity of building deep learning models, making the field more fun to learn and accessible to a far wider audience. Part I's high-level overview explains what Deep Learning is, why it has become so ubiquitous, and how it relates to concepts and terminology such as Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Artificial Neural Networks, and Reinforcement Learning. These opening chapters are replete with vivid illustrations, easy-to-grasp analogies, and character-focused narratives. Building on this foundation, the authors then offer a practical reference and tutorial for applying a wide spectrum of proven deep learning techniques. Essential theory is covered with as little mathematics as possible and is illuminated with hands-on Python code. Theory is supported with practical "run-throughs" available in accompanying Jupyter notebooks, delivering a pragmatic understanding of all major deep learning approaches and their applications: machine vision, natural language processing, image generation, and videogaming. To help readers accomplish more in less time, the authors feature several of today's most widely used and innovative deep learning libraries, including TensorFlow and its high-level API, Keras; PyTorch; and the recently released, high-level Coach, a TensorFlow API that abstracts away the complexity typically associated with building Deep Reinforcement Learning algorithms. Ideal for software developers, data scientists, and analysts at all levels of experience Teaches through simple visuals, accessible Python code examples, character-driven narratives, and intuitive analogies Covers today's leading applications, including machine vision, natural language processing, image generation, and videogames Introduces four powerful Deep Learning libraries: TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, and Coach Carefully designed to minimize mathematical formulae and avoid unnecessary complexity The first full-color, illustrated, hands-on guide to the fundamentals of modern, deep-learning AI: simply the most intuitive, practical way to get started Ideal for software developers, data scientists, and analysts at all levels of experience Teaches through simple visuals, accessible Python code examples, character-driven narratives, and intuitive analogies Covers today's leading applications, including machine vision, natural language processing, image generation, and videogames Introduces four powerful Deep Learning libraries: TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch, and Coach Carefully designed to minimize mathematical formulae and avoid unnecessary complexity
This book celebrates the most exciting period in the history of technology - the arrival of the home computer and home gaming console. YouTube's most successful purveyor of computer nostalgia brings those stories to print.
Algorithmic design is not simply the use of computer to design architecture and objects. Algorithms allow designers to overcome the limitations of traditional CAD software and 3D modelers, reaching a level of complexity and control which is beyond the human manual ability. Algorithms-Aided Design presents design methods based on the use of Grasshopper (R), a visual algorithm editor tightly integrated with Rhinoceros (R), the 3D modeling software by McNeel & Associates allowing users to explore accurate freeform shapes. The book provides computational techniques to develop and control complex geometries, covering parametric modeling, digital fabrication techniques, form-finding strategies, environmental analysis and structural optimization. It also features case studies and contributions by researchers and designers from world's most influential universities and leading architecture firms.
This well-organized reference packs hundreds of timesaving solutions, tips, and workaroundsGÇôall students need to make the most of ExcelGÇÖs most powerful tools for analyzing data and making better decisions. Renowned Excel expert Bill Jelen offers a complete tour of Excel 2019 and Excel in Office 365, from efficient interface customizations to advanced analysis, visualizations, and dashboards. Discover how experts tackle todayGÇÖs key tasksGÇôand challenge yourself to new levels of mastery.
Any programmer working with a dynamically typed language will tell you how hard it is to scale to more lines of code and more engineers. Thats why Facebook, Google, and Microsoft invented gradual static type layers for their dynamically typed JavaScript and Python code. This practical book shows you how one such type layer, TypeScript, is unique among them: it makes programming fun with its powerful static type system.If youre a programmer with intermediate JavaScript experience, author Boris Cherny will teach you how to master the TypeScript language. Youll understand how TypeScript can help you eliminate bugs in your code and enable you to scale your code across more engineers than you could before.In this book, youll:Start with the basics: Learn about TypeScripts different types and type operators, including what theyre for and how theyre usedExplore advanced topics: Understand TypeScripts sophisticated type system, including how to safely handle errors and build asynchronous programsDive in hands-on: Use TypeScript with your favorite frontend and backend frameworks, migrate your existing JavaScript project to TypeScript, and run your TypeScript application in production
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