If you have an imperative (and probably object-oriented) programming background, this hands-on book will guide you through the alien world of functional programming. Joshua Backfield begins by showing you how to apply the most useful implementation concepts before taking you further into functional-style concepts and practices. Use what you are learning to refactor imperative-style legacy code as you proceed.

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Fully updated for Windows 8.1. Prepare for Microsoft Exam 70-688 - and help demonstrate your real-world mastery of managing and maintaining Windows 8.1 in the enterprise..Writing for experienced IT professionals ready to advance their status, Joli Ballew focuses on the critical thinking and decision making acumen needed for success at the MCSA or MCSE level.

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Jordan Schwartz explores LEGO as an artistic medium. This wide-ranging collection of creative techniques will help you craft your own amazing models as you learn to see the world through the eyes of some of the greatest LEGO builders. Each concept is presented with a collection of impressive models to spark your imagination, like fantastic dragons, futuristic spaceships, expressive characters, and elaborate dioramas.

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When you’re under pressure to produce a well-designed, easy-to-navigate mobile app, there’s no time to reinvent the wheel—and no need to. In her updated 2nd edition of this handy reference, Theresa Neil provides more than 90 mobile app design patterns, illustrated by 1,000 screenshots from current Android, iOS, and Windows Phone apps.

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Reflecting the latest version of Blender the free and open source 3D computer modeling and animation program, John M. Blain helps beginners learn the basics of computer animation and looks at many new features of Blender, including developments to its GUI. This 2nd edition has new chapters on smoke simulation, movie making, and drivers and numerous new examples and figures.

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Want to understand a certain PHP programming technique? Or learn how to accomplish a particular task? In its third edition this cookbook from David Sklar and Adam Trachtenberg has more than 350 code-rich recipes revised for PHP 5.4 and 5.5, for everything from using basic data types to querying databases, and from calling RESTful APIs to testing and securing your site.

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Discover SQL Server 2014’s new in-memory OLTP engine and performance-related improvements;  explore the fundamentals of database planning and the Server Transact-SQL language syntax and gain hands-on experience with the use of scalar and table-valued functions, branching, and more advanced data structures.

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In this full–color book subtitled "Interactive Front-End Web Development", Jon Duckett adopts a visual approach to teaching JavaScript & jQuery, showing you how to make web pages more interactive and interfaces more intuitive through the use of inspiring code examples, infographics, and photography. No programming experience, other than knowing how to create a basic web page in HTML & CSS, required.

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From Black Holes and Big Bangs to the Higgs boson and the infinitesimal building blocks of all matter, modern science has been spectacularly successful, with one glaring exception intelligence. Intelligence still remains as one of the greatest mysteries in science. With the subtitle "The Puzzle of Intelligence" Derek Patridge explores cleverness.

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This beginner's guide by UX designer and developer Clarissa Peterson is for anyone involved in the process of creating websites—not just developers and teaches you fundamental strategies and techniques for using HTML and CSS to design websites that not only adapt to any screen size, but also use progressive enhancement to provide a better user experience based on device capabilities such as touchscreens and retina displays.

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Security expert, researcher, and trainer Georgia Weidman introduces the core skills and techniques that every pentester needs. Using a virtual machine-based lab that includes Kali Linux and vulnerable operating systems, you'll run through a series of practical lessons with tools like Wireshark, Nmap, and Burp Suite and experience the key stages of an actual assessment.

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Millions of websites rely on Joomla!–from personal sites to those of huge organizations like General Electric, Porsche, and the United Nations. Using Joomla! 3, you too can create websites that are mobile-ready, responsive, flexible, powerful, and secure–even if you’re an absolute beginner and Stephen Burge teaches you everything you need to know.

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