Book Watch Archive


Coding with Minecraft (No Starch Press)
Thursday, 14 June 2018

This book, subtitled "Build Taller, Farm Faster, Mine Deeper, and Automate the Boring Stuff", is an introduction to coding that teaches you how to program bots to in Minecraft. Author Al Sweigart takes the robotic "turtle" method, and extends it to the 3D, interactive world of Minecraft and shows how to create a virtual robot army with Lua. Step-by-step coding projects show how to write programs that automatically dig mines, collect materials, craft items, and build things.

<ASIN:1593278535>

 
Visual Data Storytelling with Tableau (Addison-Wesley)
Wednesday, 13 June 2018

This book uses a combination of information, context, and hands-on skills to show how to put together data stories with Tableau. In this full-color guide, author Lindy Ryan shows how to organize data and structure analysis with storytelling in mind. Each chapter illuminates key aspects of design practice and data visualization, and guides you step-by-step through applying them in Tableau. Through realistic examples and classroom-tested exercises, Lindy Ryan helps you use Tableau to analyze data, visualize it, and help people connect more intuitively and emotionally with it.

<ASIN:0134712838>

 
Optimizing Java (O'Reilly)
Monday, 11 June 2018

This book, subtitled Practical Techniques for Improving JVM Application Performance, is aimed at intermediate to advanced Java technologists working with complex technology stacks. Authors Ben Evans, Jim Gough, and Chris Newland show how to tune Java applications for performance using a quantitative, verifiable approach. Most resources on performance tend to discuss the theory and internals of Java virtual machines, but this book focuses on the practicalities of performance tuning by examining a wide range of aspects.

<ASIN:1492025798>

 
Software Quality Assurance (Mercury)
Thursday, 07 June 2018

This overview of software quality assurance testing in a self-teaching format looks at software quality, its basic concepts, applications, and practical case studies. Author Rajiv Chopra includes end-of-chapter questions with answers to test your knowledge and reinforce your grasp of the concepts being presented. The book also includes material on the video-game testing process, a game-testing plan template, and game testing effectiveness.

<ASIN:1683921682>

 
Getting Clojure (Pragmatic)
Wednesday, 06 June 2018

Clojure aims to be a radically simple language framework holding together a sophisticated collection of programming features. This book aims to teach you how to think functionally as it teaches you the language. Author Russ Olsen shows how to use Clojure's powerful data structures and high-level functions, along with what it means for a language to be functional, and how to think in Clojure's functional way.

<ASIN:1680503006>

 
JavaScript On Things (Manning)
Monday, 04 June 2018

With the subtitle "Hacking hardware for web developers", this book introduces programming for small electronics, and author Lyza Danger Gardner promises that if you know enough JavaScript to hack a website together, you'll be making things go bleep, blink, and spin faster than you can say "nodebot." Practical from the outset, and beginning with blinking on Arduino, this fully illustrated, hands-on book looks at JavaScript toolkits like Johnny-Five along with platforms including Raspberry Pi, Tessel, and BeagleBone, with project showing how to wire in sensors, hook up motors, transmit data, and handle user input.

<ASIN:1617293865>

 
Microsoft Excel Functions and Formulas 4th Ed (Mercury)
Thursday, 31 May 2018

This book demonstrates the secrets of Excel through the use of practical and useful examples in a quick reference format. With over 300 Excel worksheet examples, files, and added video tutorials, authors Bernd Held and Brian Moriarty show how to understand, create, and apply formulas, including advanced formulas and functions for experienced users. Numerous step-by-step instructions are included alongside the actual, ready to use, Excel screenshots of the input and output from the formulas.

<ASIN:1944534636>

 
Microservices and Containers (Addison Wesley)
Wednesday, 30 May 2018

This book shows how to use microservices and Docker to drive modular architectural design, on-demand scalability, and application performance and reliability.  Author Parminder Kocher offers detailed guidance and a complete roadmap for moving from monolithic architectures, as well as an in-depth case study that walks the reader through the migration of an enterprise-class SOA system.

<ASIN:0134598385>

 
Programmed Inequality (MIT Press)
Monday, 28 May 2018

In the History of Computing Series, the book by historian and author Marie Hicks has the subtitle "How Britain Discarded Women Technologists and Lost Its Edge in Computing". Hicks explains how Britain lost its early dominance in computing by systematically discriminating against its most qualified workers: women. Her account reveals that in 1944, Britain led the world in electronic computing. By 1974, the British computer industry was all but extinct.

<ASIN:0262535181>

 
Web Scraping with Python 2nd Ed (O'Reilly)
Thursday, 24 May 2018

By writing a simple automated program, you can query web servers, request data, and parse it to extract the information you need. In the expanded edition of this practical book, author Ryan Mitchell not only introduces you web scraping, but also provides a comprehensive guide to scraping almost every type of data from the modern web.

<ASIN:1491985577>

 
.NET Core 2.0 By Example (Packt)
Wednesday, 23 May 2018

This book introduces .NET Core 2.0 in a succinct format that delivers concepts, along with the implications, design decisions, and potential pitfalls you might face when targeting Linux and Windows systems. With the .NET framework at its center, authors Rishabh Verma and Neha Shrivastava use five varied projects to illustrate the concepts: a multiplayer Tic-tac-toe game; a real-time chat application, Let'sChat; a chatbot; a microservice-based buying-selling application; and a movie booking application.

<ASIN:1788395093>

 
Software Testing (Mercury Learning)
Monday, 21 May 2018

This overview of software testing provides key concepts, case studies, and numerous techniques to ensure software is reliable and secure. Using a self-teaching format, author Rajiv Chopra covers important topics such as black, white, and gray box testing, video game testing, test point analysis, automation, and levels of testing and provides end-of-chapter multiple-choice questions and  answers to help ensure you've mastered the topics.

<ASIN:1683921666>

 
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