Book Watch Archive


ASP.NET Core In Action (Manning)
Thursday, 20 September 2018

This book is for C# developers without any web development experience who want to get started and become productive quickly using ASP.NET Core 2.0 to build web applications. Author Andrew Lock starts with a crash course in .NET Core, immediately cutting the cord between ASP.NET and Windows. The book then shows how to create web applications step by step, systematically adding essential features like logins, configuration, dependency injection, and custom components.

<ASIN:1617294616>

 
Pragmatic AI (Addison-Wesley)
Wednesday, 19 September 2018

This book aims to teach developers to solve real-world problems with contemporary machine learning, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing tools. Author Noah Gift covers off-the-shelf machine learning products from Amazon, Google, and Microsoft, and demonstrates techniques using the Python data science ecosystem. The book contains workflows and examples to help you streamline and simplify every step, from deployment to production, and build scalable solutions.

<ASIN:0134863860>

 
Deep Learning Cookbook (O'Reilly)
Monday, 17 September 2018

Getting to grips with deep learning techniques through frameworks such as Keras and Tensorflow means software engineers without a background in machine learning can quickly enter the field. With the recipes in this cookbook, author Douwe Osinga shows how to solve deep-learning problems for classifying and generating text, images, and music. Each chapter consists of several recipes needed to complete a single project, such as training a music recommending system. Examples are written in Python with code available on GitHub as a set of Python notebooks.

<ASIN:149199584X>

 
Unity 2018 Game Development in 24 Hours 3rd Ed (Sams)
Thursday, 13 September 2018

This book teaches how to use the Unity 2018 game engine, which is used for popular games including Ori and the Blind ForestFirewatch, and Monument Valley.  Author  Mike Geig's straightforward, step-by-step approach teaches you everything from the absolute basics through sophisticated game physics, animation, and mobile device deployment techniques.

<ASIN:0134998138>

 
Rediscovering JavaScript (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
Wednesday, 12 September 2018

If you feared JavaScript, or if the language annoyed you in the past, Dr. Venkat Subramaniam shows how the language has beautifully evolved in ECMAScript 2015 (ES6), 2016 (ES7), and 2017 (ES8) and how it is now highly approachable. Whether you program the front end or the server side, you can now write concise, elegant, and expressive JavaScript with newer features like default parameters, template literals, rest and spread operators, destructuring, arrow functions, and generators.

<ASIN:1680505467>

 
Kotlin Standard Library Cookbook (Packt)
Monday, 10 September 2018

The recipes in this book offer coding solutions that can be readily executed. The book covers various topics related to data processing, I/O operations, and collections transformation. Author Samuel Urbanowicz walks through effective design patterns in Kotlin and shows how coroutines add new features to JavaScript. The recipes show how to implement clean, reusable functions and scalable interfaces containing default implementations. In the concluding chapters, recipes are provided on functional programming concepts, such as lambdas, monads, functors, and Kotlin scoping functions.

<ASIN:1788837665>

 
Exploratory Data Analysis Using R (CRC Press)
Thursday, 06 September 2018

This book provides a classroom-tested introduction to exploratory data analysis (EDA) and introduces the range of "interesting" – good, bad, and ugly – features that can be found in data, and why it is important to find them. Author Ronald K. Pearson also introduces the mechanics of using R to explore and explain data. Alongside a detailed overview of data, exploratory analysis, and R, the book also covers graphics in R., working with external data, linear regression models, and crafting data stories. The second part of the book focuses on developing R programs, including good programming practices and examples, working with text data, and general predictive models. 

<ASIN:149873023X>

 
Programming Elixir ≥ 1.6 (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
Wednesday, 05 September 2018

The subtitle of this book is Functional |> Concurrent |> Pragmatic |> Fun, and author Dave Thomas (of The Pragmatic Programmer) aims to explore functional programming without the academic overtones. The book shows how to create concurrent applications that work without all the locking and consistency headaches. Elixir is a modern, functional, concurrent language built on the Erlang VM. Elixir's pragmatic syntax and built-in support for metaprogramming will make you productive and keep you interested for the long haul. This edition is fully updated with all the new features of Elixir 1.6, with a new chapter on structuring OTP applications, and new sections on the debugger, code formatter, Distillery, and protocols

<ASIN:1680502999>

 
.NET Core in Action (Manning)
Monday, 03 September 2018

This hands-on guide shows .NET developers how to build professional software applications with .NET Core. Author Dustin Metzga shows how to convert existing .NET code to work on multiple platforms as well as how to start new projects with knowledge of the tools and capabilities of .NET Core. It concentrates on new Core features as it discusses familiar tasks like testing, logging, data access, and networking. It covers modern architectures like microservices and cloud data storage, along with practical matters like performance profiling, localization, and signing assemblies. All examples are in C#.

<ASIN:1617294276>

 
Fusion 360 for Makers (Maker Media)
Thursday, 30 August 2018

This book shows how to use Autodesk Fusion 360 to digitally model your own original projects for a 3D printer or a CNC device. Author Lydia Cline shows how Fusion 360 software lets you design, analyze, and print your ideas. Free to students and small businesses alike, it offers solid, surface, organic, direct, and parametric modeling capabilities.The book is written for beginners to 3D modeling software by an experienced teacher. It will get you up and running quickly with the goal of creating models for 3D printing and CNC fabrication

<ASIN:1680453556>

 
Microsoft Visual C# Step by Step, 9th Ed (Microsoft Press)
Wednesday, 29 August 2018

In the 9th edition of this hands-on guide, author John Sharp teaches the fundamentals of programming with the latest version of Visual C# with Visual Studio 2017. If you are an experienced software developer, you’ll get all the guidance, exercises, and code you need to start building responsive, scalable, cloud-connected applications that can run almost anywhere.

<ASIN:1509307761>

 
The Manga Guide to Cryptography (No Starch Press)
Monday, 27 August 2018

This book turns the art of encryption and decryption into plain, comic-illustrated, English. Authors Masaaki Mitani and Shinichi Satou show Inspector Jun Meguro on a quest to bring a cipher-wielding thief to justice that also illustrates how cryptographic ciphers work. Illustrated throughout with Japanese manga, the book covers cryptography topics such as classic substitution, polyalphabetic, and transposition ciphers; symmetric-key algorithms like block and DES (Data Encryption Standard) ciphers; and how to use public key encryption technology. It also explores practical applications of encryption such as digital signatures, password security, and identity fraud counter-measures.

<ASIN:1593277423>

 
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