Book Watch Archive


The Fight for Privacy (W. W. Norton & Company)
Friday, 04 November 2022

In this book, subtitled "Protecting Dignity, Identity, and Love in the Digital Age", Danielle Citron argues that we need to protect what she calls intimate privacy. Citron looks at the way personal information becomes valuable data, to corporations know exactly when to flash that ad for a new drug or pregnancy test, or used by social and political forces to manipulate what you think and who you trust, leveraging sensitive secrets and deepfake videos to ruin or silence opponents.

<ASIN:178474512X>

 
Programming The Raspberry Pi Pico/W In C, 2nd Ed (I/O Press)
Wednesday, 02 November 2022

The Raspberry Pi Pico is a tiny microcontroller with big capabilities. This book reveals what you can do with the Pico's GPIO lines together with widely used sensors, servos and motors and ADCs. Harry Fairhead uses the highly popular VS Code as his development environment and shows how to use a Raspberry Pi or a desktop PC running Windows as your development machine. When the Raspberry Pi Pico was first introduced it lacked network connectivity. The Pico W remedied this shortcoming and this second edition show how to use it to create a web client and web server.

<ASIN:187196279X>

 
Modern Front-End Development for Rails (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
Monday, 31 October 2022

This book shows how to improve the user experience for your Rails app with rich client-side interactions. Noel Rappin shows how to use the Rails 7 tools and simplify the complex JavaScript ecosystem, and how to build user interactions with Hotwire, Turbo, and Stimulus.

<ASIN:1680509616>

 
Game Development 2042 (CRC Press)
Friday, 28 October 2022

This book presents a fast-paced look at the next two decades of the games industry with a focus on game design, the evolution of gaming markets around the world, the future of technology, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, crypto-currency, and the art and business of creating and publishing hit games. Tim Fields has interviewed a dozen veteran games industry luminaries, who have collectively created many of the greatest hits of the last twenty years and grossed tens of billions of dollars in revenue for companies like Electronic Arts, Facebook, Apple, Activision, Microsoft, Amazon, Supercell, Netflix, Warner Brothers, and others.

<ASIN:1032272058>

 
Getting Started with Natural Language Processing (Manning)
Wednesday, 26 October 2022

This understandable guide that helps you engineer your first NLP algorithms. Dr. Ekaterina Kochmar uses Python code and hands-on projects, with each chapter providing a concrete example with practical techniques that you can put into practice right away. If you're a beginner to NLP and want to upgrade your applications with functions and features like information extraction, user profiling, and automatic topic labeling, this is the book for you.

<ASIN:‎1617296767>

 
A Tour of C++, 3rd Ed (Addison-Wesley Professional)
Monday, 24 October 2022

In this book, Bjarne Stroustrup provides an overview of ISO C++, C++20 with the aim of giving experienced programmers a clear understanding of what constitutes modern C++. Featuring carefully crafted examples and practical help in getting started, this revised and updated edition concisely covers most major language features and the major standard-library components needed for effective use.

<ASIN:0136816487>

 
Strange Code (No Starch Press)
Friday, 21 October 2022

This book, subtitled "Esoteric Languages That Make Programming Fun Again"starts with a dive into the underlying history of programming, covering the early computer-science concepts, like Turing machines and Turing completeness, that led to the languages we use today. Ron Kneusel then explores the realm of “atypical” programming languages, introducing you to the out-of-the-box thinking that comes from these unusual approaches to coding.

<ASIN:1718502400>

 
The Art of Computer Programming: Combinatorial Algorithms, Volume 4B (Addison Wesley)
Wednesday, 19 October 2022

This is the latest volume in Knuth's multivolume analysis of algorithms. Volume 4B, the sequel to Volume 4A, extends Knuth's exploration of combinatorial algorithms. The book begins with coverage of Backtrack Programming, together with a set of data structures whose links perform "delightful dances" and are ideally suited to this domain. New techniques for important applications such as optimum partitioning and layout are thereby developed.

<ASIN:0201038064>

 
Code, 2nd Ed (Microsoft Press)
Monday, 17 October 2022

For more than 20 years, Charles Petzold's book Code has been a classic, and now he has revised it for this new age of computing. Cleverly illustrated and easy to understand, this is the book that cracks the mystery. You'll discover what flashlights, black cats, seesaws, and the ride of Paul Revere can teach you about computing, and how human ingenuity and our compulsion to communicate have shaped every electronic device we use.

<ASIN:0137909101>

 
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology (Scribner)
Friday, 14 October 2022

This book looks at how America designed and built the fastest chips and maintained its lead as the #1 superpower. Now, America's edge is slipping, undermined by competitors in Taiwan, Korea, Europe, and, above all, China. Today, as Chris Miller reveals, China, which spends more money each year importing chips than it spends importing oil, is pouring billions into a chip-building initiative to catch up to the US. At stake is America's military superiority and economic prosperity.

<ASIN:1398504106>

 
Programmer’s Python: Async (I/O Press)
Wednesday, 12 October 2022

This book, subtitled "Threads, processes, asyncio & more" is part of a set of Something Completely Different books that look at what makes Python special and sets it apart from other programming languages. This volume is about asynchronous programming, something that is is hard to get right - but well worth the trouble. Mike James looks at how to ensure applications can make use of async code so avoiding wasting a huge amount of the machine’s potential.

<ASIN:1871962765>

 
The C# Workshop (Packt)
Monday, 10 October 2022

Subtitled "Kickstart your career as a software developer with C#", this book provides a fast-paced, supportive learning experience that will quickly get you writing C# code and building applications. Rather than focus on dry, technical explanations of the underlying theory, Jason Hales, Almantas Karpavicius and Mateus Viegas cut through the noise and use engaging examples to help you understand how each concept is applied in the real world.

<ASIN:1800566492>

 
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