Book Watch Archive


Computers for Seniors (No Starch Press)
Thursday, 14 September 2017

Computers for Seniors is a step-by-step guide designed for older people that will take them all the way from pressing the 'On' button on a new computer to being a confident user. Authors Carrie Ewin, Cheryl Ewin, and Chris Ewin show how to send emails, shop online safely, read the latest news, use YouTube, share pictures, and check the weather forecast, among other topics. 

<ASIN:159327792X> 

 
Think Data Structures (O'Reilly)
Wednesday, 13 September 2017

This practical book aims to help you get to grips with data structures and algorithms in a clear, concise, and engaging way.  Author Allen Downey emphasizes practical knowledge and skills over theory and shows how to use data structures to implement efficient algorithms, and then analyze and measure their performance. The book explores the important classes in the Java collections framework (JCF), how they're implemented, and how they're expected to perform.

<ASIN:1491972394>

 
Angular 4: Pocket Primer (Mercury)
Monday, 11 September 2017

This book provides an introduction to Angular 2 application development, independent of any exposure to Angular 1.x and is intended for beginners who want to develop Web applications. Author Oswald Campesato shows how to create applications with various UI Controls, how to create custom components, and how to handle mouse-related events.

<ASIN:168392035X>

 
Introduction to Game Design, Prototyping, and Development 2nd Ed (Addison Wesley)
Friday, 08 September 2017

This book covers the techniques and tools needed for designing and developing games. This new edition was written with Unity 2017. Author Jeremy Gibson Bond has spent more than a decade teaching game design and building games, and the book covers game design theory, rapid iterative prototyping, and practical programming.

<ASIN:0134659864>

 
React Quickly (Manning)
Tuesday, 05 September 2017

Subtitled Painless web apps with React, JSX, Redux, and GraphQL, this book is intended for web developers who want to learn React.js, the JavaScript that improving data flow between UI components, fast. Author Azat Mardan teaches React development using your existing JavaScript and web dev skills. It imparts you the concepts you need with lots of examples, tutorials, and a large main project that gets built throughout the book.

<ASIN:1617293342>

 
Go Cookbook (Packt)
Monday, 04 September 2017

This book takes off where basic tutorials on the Go language leave off.  Author Aaron Torres shows how you can put into practice some of the more advanced concepts and libraries offered by the language while avoiding some of the common mistakes for new Go developers.

<ASIN:1783286830>

 
Concurrency In Go (O'Reilly)
Thursday, 31 August 2017

The Go open source programming language has facilities to make working with concurrency easier than you might expect. If you're a developer familiar with Go, this practical book demonstrates best practices and patterns to help you incorporate concurrency into your systems. Author Katherine Cox-Buday takes you step-by-step through the process.

<ASIN:1491941197>

 
C# 7 and .NET Core Cookbook (Packt)
Wednesday, 30 August 2017

This book offers solution to some common programming problems that you come across with the recently open-sourced C# and will also help you get started with .NET Core 1.1. Dirk Strauss takes a recipe-based approach, starting with a run through of new features in C# 7, such as tuples and  pattern matching. He then moves on to look at generics and the OOP features in C# before tackling more advanced topics, such as reactive extensions, Regex, code analyzers, and asynchronous programming.

<ASIN:1787286274>

 
Creating a Website: Design and Build Your First Site! (Dummies Junior)
Monday, 28 August 2017

This book is the kids′ guide to learning basic website design. From planning to perfecting, author Greg Rickaby works through the process of building a own website, with easy–to–read instructions and plenty of pictures every step of the way.

<ASIN:1119376513>

 
Incident Management for Operations (O'Reilly)
Thursday, 24 August 2017

IT professionals looking for effective response models have successfully adopted the Incident Management System (IMS) used by firefighters throughout the US. This practical book shows you how to apply the same response methodology to your own IT operation. This practical book by Chris Hawley and Ron Vidal will help you deliver high-performance, high reliability, process-oriented IT Operations. 

<ASIN:1491917628>

 
Murach's Java Programming (5th Ed)
Wednesday, 23 August 2017

This is the 5th Edition of Joel Murach's best-selling core Java book. Since 2001, it has been used by thousands of beginners and experienced programmers to master the core language skills that are needed to create console, web, and mobile applications. This latest edition has been fully updated to Java 9 and has also been updated to show you how to develop Java programs using the two most popular IDEs that will boost your programming productivity.

<ASIN:1943872074>

 
The Great Formal Machinery Works (Princeton University Press)
Monday, 21 August 2017

In this book, subtitled "Theories of Deduction and Computation at the Origins of the Digital Age", author Jan von Plato draws on original sources and rare archival materials to trace the history of the theories of deduction and computation that laid the logical foundations for the digital revolution. He examines the contributions of figures such as Aristotle; the nineteenth-century German polymath Hermann Grassmann; George Boole, whose Boolean logic would prove essential to programming languages and computing; Ernst Schroder, best known for his work on algebraic logic; and Giuseppe Peano, cofounder of mathematical logic.

<ASIN: 0691174172>

 
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