Book Watch Archive


BBC Micro:bit in Practice (Packt)
Wednesday, 04 January 2023

In this book described as "a hands-on guide to building creative real-life projects with MicroPython and the BBC Micro:bit"  Ashwin Pajankar, Abhishek Sharma and Sandeep Saini show how hardware components can be manipulated using a combination of Micro:bit and MicroPython. The book begins with mini projects aimed at developing practical knowledge of circuit design and writing programs before moving on to how to write programs for working with built-in LEDs and buttons, interfacing external LEDs, buttons, motors and buzzers, built-in radio, speakers, accelerometer, and a compass.

<ASIN:1804610127>

 
Ruby on Rails Tutorial, 7th Ed (Addison-Wesley)
Monday, 02 January 2023

In this tome subtitled "Learn Web Development with Rails", Michael Hartl teaches Rails by guiding you through the development of three example applications of increasing sophistication. The tutorial's examples focus on the general principles of web development needed for virtually any kind of website. The updates to this edition include full compatibility with Rails 7.

<ASIN:013804984X>

 
Tracers in the Dark (DoubleDay)
Friday, 30 December 2022

Subtitled "The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords of Cryptocurrency", this is the story of a new breed of investigators who have cracked the Bitcoin blockchain, exposing once-anonymous realms of money, drugs, and violence. Andy Greenberg tells a saga of criminal empires built and destroyed. He introduces an IRS agent with a defiant streak, a Bitcoin-tracing Danish entrepreneur, and a colorful ensemble of hardboiled agents and prosecutors as they delve deep into the crypto-underworld.

<ASIN:0385548095>

 
AWS Serverless IoT (Embedded-IoT)
Wednesday, 28 December 2022

Subtitled "Inexpensive IoT Projects to take you from Zero to AWS IoT Hero" this is a friendly and approachable guide to getting started with IoT centric services on the AWS cloud, either using a real hardware device like the ESP32, ESP8266, or the Raspberry Pi or one of the free virtual devices explained in the book like MQTT.fx, a Bash script, or the MQTT test client to publish IoT data to AWS IoT Core. Steve Borsay covers various AWS IoT centric services such as IoT Core, Lambda, S3, QuickSight, SageMaker, API Gateway, DynamoDB, Timestream, WebSockets, IoT Analytics, as well as other AWS services.

<ASIN:B0BKJGGHN9>

 
Leibniz on Binary: The Invention of Computer Arithmetic (MIT Press)
Monday, 26 December 2022

The polymath Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716), in addition to independently inventing calculus, also invented binary arithmetic, the representational basis for today’s digital computing. This is the first collection of Leibniz’s key writings on the binary system, newly translated, with many previously unpublished in any language.

<ASIN:‎ 0262544342>

 
Python for Kids, 2nd Edition: A Playful Introduction to Programming (No Starch Press)
Friday, 23 December 2022

This book brings Python to life and brings kids (and their parents) into the world of programming. Author Jason R. Briggs guides readers through the basics, experimenting with unique (and amusing) example programs that feature ravenous monsters, secret agents and thieving ravens.

<ASIN:‎1718503024>

 
Modern Frontend Development with Node.js (Packt)
Wednesday, 21 December 2022

This book sets out to explain what the Node.js runtime has to offer and how you can unlock its full potential to create frontend-focused web apps. Florian Rappl begins with the basics and internals of Node.js, before looking at how to divide code into modules and packages. Later chapters cover the most popular package managers and their uses and how to use TypeScript and other JavaScript variants with Node.js.

<ASIN:1804618292>

 
Dead Simple Python (No Starch Press)
Monday, 19 December 2022

Subtitled "Idiomatic Python for the Impatient Programmer", this book is a thorough introduction to every feature of the Python language for programmers who are impatient to write production code. Instead of revisiting elementary computer science topics. Jason C. McDonald dives deep into idiomatic Python patterns so readers can write professional Python programs in no time.

<ASIN:1718500920>

 
"You Are Not Expected to Understand This" (Princeton University Press)
Friday, 16 December 2022

Subtitled "How 26 Lines of Code Changed the World", this book sets out to show that computer code is the result of very human decisions, ones we all live with when we use social media, take photos or drive our cars. Torie Bosch and Kelly Chudler look at how everything from law enforcement to space exploration relies on code written by people who, at the time, made choices and assumptions that would have long-lasting, profound implications for society.

<ASIN:0691208484>

 
The Well-Grounded Java Developer, 2nd Ed (Manning)
Wednesday, 14 December 2022

This book introduces both the recent innovations and fundamentals that make a developer a Java master. Authors Ben Evans, Martijn Verburg, and Jason Clark distill their decades of experience as Java champions, veteran developers, and key contributors to the Java ecosystem into this clear and practical guide.

<ASIN:‎ 1617298875>

 
Murach's ASP.NET Core MVC, 2nd Ed (Murach)
Monday, 12 December 2022

This 2nd Edition of Murach’s ASP.NET Core MVC has been revised to provide more coverage of the skills needed to develop websites using the MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern with ASP.NET Core. Joel Murach and Mary Delamater take readers who know the basics of C#, through coding the way today’s top web professionals do.

<ASIN:‎ 194387302X>

 
Hangry: A Startup Journey (Legacy Lit)
Friday, 09 December 2022

In this book GrubHub founder Mike Evans reveals the inside story of how he co-founded and developed GrubHub after wanting a pizza delivered late one night. In Hangry, he details step-by-step the grind of building an innovative business, with each chapter including sharp lessons for entrepreneurs and startups that Mike learned on the fly.

<ASIN:‎ 0306925532>

 
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