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Micro:bit IoT In C, Second Edition (I/O Press)

The BBC micro:bit is capable of taking on a variety of roles including that of a powerful IoT device. In order to gain full access to its features and to external devices, however, you need to use C which delivers the speed crucial to programs that communicate with the outside world. Writing for the electronics enthusiast with a programming background, Harry Fairhead presents details of sensors and circuits with several complete programs.

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Even if you have no programming experience and little more than a grounding in the basics of mathematics, you'll find everything you need to begin using R effectively for statistical analysis in this beginner-friendly guide subtitled "A First Course in Programming and Statistics" which includes dozens of hands-on exercises, with downloadable solutions, to take you from theory to practice,.

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Don't waste your time building an application server. See how to build low-cost, low-maintenance, highly available, serverless single page web applications that scale into the millions of users at the click of a button. Build well-tested single page apps that are safe from malicious attacks and adapt to any device or network connected to the web. 

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The subtitle of this book, "Harnessing Bitcoin's Blockchain Technology",  is important to understanding what it's about. It shows developers how to take advantage of the decentralization and trustless common knowledge structures of blockchain cryptography to build dapps, decentralized applications. Siraj Raval clearly explains what a dapp is, and shows you how to make use of decentralized storage, bandwidth, and computing.  

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Updated for Excel 2016 this a practical, how-to book on Excel programming is suitable for readers already proficient with the Excel user interface. If you are looking to automate Excel routine tasks, this book will progressively introduce you to programming concepts via numerous, illustrated, hands-on exercises. Includes a comprehensive disc with source code, supplemental files, and color screen captures.

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With built-in support for WiFi, GPIO, I2C and SPI, the Intel Edison is a capable IoT device. However, to make use of its unique qualities and bring out its full power you have make use its native mode, which means using the mini-breakout board, dealing with the fact that it is a 1.8V logic device and programming it using C. Harry Fairhead explains how with detailed guidance and complete programs for working with several useful devices.  

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With the subtitle, "Building a Culture of Collaboration, Affinity, and Tooling at Scale" Katherine Daniels and Jennifer Davis provide several approaches for improving collaboration within teams, creating affinity among teams, promoting efficient tool usage in your company, and scaling up what works throughout your organization’s inflection points.

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The 2016 edition of this Murach Classic SQL Server book starts by presenting  the SQL statements that you need to retrieve and update the data in a database. These are the SQL statements that you’ll use every day. Then, it shows you how to design a database, how to implement that design, and how to work with database features like views, scripts, stored procedures, functions, triggers, transactions, security, XML data, BLOB data with FILESTREAM storage, and the CLR integration feature.

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Developers, designers, engineers, and creators can no longer afford to pass responsibility for identity and data security onto others. Jonathan LeBlanc and Tim Messerschmidt provide a deep dive into the concepts, technology, and programming methodologies necessary to build a secure interface for data and identity without compromising usability.

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Spreadsheets take the hard work out of financial calculations, but you still need to know how to do them. In this revised published version of her I Programmer e-book, Janet Swift explains how to use the spreadsheet of your choice to make financial decisions relating to investments and loans, to understand how inflation affects a cashflow and to get to grips with advanced concepts like the internal rate of return.

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Complete coverage of the latest updates, features, and capabilities, giving you everything you need for C#. Get expert instruction on the latest changes to Visual Studio 2015, Windows Runtime, ADO.NET, ASP.NET, Windows Store Apps, Windows Workflow Foundation, and more, with clear explanations, no-nonsense pacing, and valuable expert insight. This guide serves as both tutorial and desk reference, providing a professional-level review of C# architecture and its application in a number of areas. 

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Using Sass, you can write your stylesheets in a more concise, dynamic, and readable way, and cut down many of the tedious repetitive tasks that come with writing vanilla CSS. Sass simplifies your stylesheets, adding some useful features missing from CSS. Most importantly, Sass will save you time.

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