Fully updated to ASP.NET 5.0, this is a hands-on primer to building cross-platform web applications with C# and .NET skills. Andrew Lock goes from basic HTTP concepts to advanced framework customization. This updated edition covers the latest features, including Razor Pages and the new hosting paradigm.

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This book will take you through a range of techniques for text processing, from basics such as parsing the parts of speech to complex topics such as topic modeling, text classification, and visualization. Zhenya Antić shows how to solve real-world NLP problems, such as dependency parsing, information extraction, topic modeling, and text data visualization.

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“You look like a thing and I love you” is one of the best pickup lines ever…according to an artificial intelligence system trained by Janelle Shane, creator of the blog AI Weirdness. In her book subtitled "How Artificial Intelligence Works and Why It's Making the World a Weirder Place", Shane creates silly AIs that learn how to name colors of paint, create the best recipes, and even flirt (badly) with humans.

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Practical and example-driven, this book gives the tools to get comfortable with the GraphQL language, build and optimize a data API service, and use it in a front-end client application. Samer Buna shows how to create a complete GraphQL server, and easy ways to incorporate GraphQL into an existing codebase to offer simple, efficient, and scalable data APIs.

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Subtitled "The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World", this book looks at the way artificial intelligence has been built into our biggest companies, our social discourse, and our daily lives, with few of us even noticing.  New York Times Silicon Valley journalist, Cade Metz, has based this book on hundreds of interviews at those companies. He presents the fierce conflict AI engenders between national interests, shareholder value, the pursuit of scientific knowledge, and the very human concerns about privacy, security, bias, and prejudice.

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The BBC micro:bit is capable of taking on a variety of roles including that of a powerful IoT device. In order to gain full access to its features and to external devices, however, you need to use C which delivers the speed which is crucial when you are writing programs to communicate with the outside world. The updated, expanded, 2nd Edition covers the new V2 version of the micro:bit and uses the VS Code for offline development. Writing for the electronics enthusiast with a programming background, Harry Fairhead presents details of sensors and circuits with several complete programs and provides downloadable templates for both V1 and V2 of the micro:bit to help you get started.

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This book aims to "shake off the dusty, dull, dryness of the typical programming book, replacing it with something more exciting and flavorful: a bit of humor, a casual tone, and examples involving dragons and asteroids instead of bank accounts and employees". R B Whitaker shows how to program by doing instead of just reading, with over 100 hands-on programming challenges. The book covers the C# language from the ground up, but it also doesn’t hold back on exciting, powerful language features. 

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This book is aimed at developers want to use Go’s ease of use for writing secure, readable, production-ready network code, beginning from the basics of networking and traffic-routing know-how. Author Adam Woodbeck then looks at writing programs that communicate using TCP, UDP, Unix sockets, and other features that ensure reliable data transmission. Later chapters explore higher-level network protocols like HTTP and HTTP/2, and show how to build applications that securely interact with servers, clients, and APIs over a network using TLS.

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Using Machine Learning and Python, this books set out to show how build an AI investing machine that will use AI to monitor the stock market and provide stock picks for the year. The book looks at what value investing is, how to frame the stock selection problem in a quantitative way, and how to use machine learning algorithms on stock market data. Author Damon Lee is careful to point out that this isn't financial advice. Rather, this is an educational book teaching data analysis tools for financial information.

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This book looks at how to use the features of .NET 5 with C# 9 to build robust enterprise applications by creating an enterprise app and adding a key component to the app with each chapter, before finally getting it ready for testing and deployment. Ravindra Akella et al look at concepts relating to advanced data structures, the Entity Framework Core, parallel programming, and dependency injection.

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This guide shows how development teams can plan, track, and manage work by combining the Scrum agile framework and Microsoft’s Azure ALM/DevOps toolset. Richard Hundhausen covers team formation, backlogs, Sprints, test plans, collaboration, flow, continuous improvement, Azure Boards, Azure Test Plans, and the real-world tradeoffs associated with DevOps.

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This book looks at each stage of the web development process, showing how to combine Rust and modern web development principles to build supercharged web apps.Maxwell Flitton shows how to avoid common pitfalls when migrating from traditional dynamic programming languages. Later chapters explore the Actix Web framework, processing JSON requests, creating RESTful services in Rust and building an automated deployment process for the app on an AWS EC2 instance and Docker Hub.

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