The Intel Edison is a crowning achievement of Intel's adaptation of its technology into maker-friendly products. They've packed the dual-core power of the Atom CPU, combined it with a sideboard microcontroller brain, and added in Wi-Fi, Bluetooth Low Energy, and a generous amount of RAM (1GB) and flash storage (4GB). Stephanie Moyerman, a research scientist with Intel's Smart Device Innovation Team, teaches you everything you need to know to get started making things with Edison, the compact and powerful Internet of Things platform.

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Django is a powerful system for creating modern, dynamic websites. In this step-by-step, beginner-friendly guide, Django consultant and trainer Andrew Pinkham reveals how websites operate; how Django makes building websites easy; how to write Python code that leverages its immense capabilities; and how to build solutions that are robust, reliable, and secure. You’ll start simply and learn to solve increasingly challenging problems: mastering new features and understanding how Django’s architecture shapes their behavior, and gaining essential knowledge for working with any web framework, not just Django.

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Whether you are just starting out or an Excel novice, this is your comprehensive, go-to guide for Excel 2016. Whether you use Excel at work or at home, you will be guided through the powerful new features and capabilities by Excel Guru John Walkenbach to take full advantage of what the updated version offers. Learn to incorporate templates, implement formulas, create pivot tables, analyze data, and much more.

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Written by the authors of C# 6.0 in a Nutshell, Joseph and Ben Albahari this easy to browse pocket sized guide provides instant help for C# 6.0 programmers.Practical and tightly focused, it tells you what you need to know without long introductions or bloated samples. Intended as a quick reference or as a guide to get you rapidly up to speed if you already know Java, C++, or an earlier version of C#.

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The authoritative resource for any programmer who wants to learn Go. It shows how to write clear and idiomatic Go to solve real-world problems. The book does not assume prior knowledge of Go nor experience with any specific language, so you’ll find it accessible whether you’re most comfortable with JavaScript, Ruby, Python, Java, or C++. Written by Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan  it features hundreds of examples of Go code that cover the whole language, its most important packages, and a wide range of applications.

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Python is a powerful programming language that's easy to learn and fun to play with. But once you've gotten a handle on the basics, what do you do next? This collection of "Geeky Projects for the Curious Programmer" from indie hardware maker Mahesh Venkitachalam is intended to inspire you to use Python to make art and music, build simulations of real-world phenomena, and interact with hardware like the Arduino and Raspberry Pi. 

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This is the 6th edition of the definitive reference to C# from Joseph and Ben Albahari. Uniquely organized around concepts and use cases, it includes completely revised and updated information on all the new C# 6.0 language features. See Mike James review of 5th edition in which he concluded: 

This is a book C# programmers will find an useful addition to their bookshelves if they require a reference work on C# and the wider framework. Recommended.

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Google's search capabilities are so powerful, they sometimes discover content that no one ever intended to be publicly available on the Web, including social security numbers, credit card numbers, trade secrets, and federally classified documents. Johnny Long, founder of Hackers for Charity, together with Bill Gardner Justin Brown, shows how security professionals and system administratord manipulate Google to find this sensitive information and "self-police" their own organizations....

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Processing opens up the world of programming to artists, designers, educators, and beginners. Written by the co-founders of the Processing project, Casey Reas and Ben Fry, this short book shows you how easy it is to make software and systems with interactive graphics. If you're an artist looking to develop interactive graphics programs or a programmer on your way to becoming an artist, this book will take you where you want to go. Updated with new material on graphics manipulation, data, and for the latest version of Processing. 

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Swift is the new, modern programming language for developing applications for the iOS, OS X, and Apple Watch platforms. In this slim book, Keith Lee  tackles the questions:  What are the general features and purpose of Swift? Why you should use it? How do you quickly begin developing apps with it?  Covering Swift 2.0, he begins with an overview of Swift and its development tools before providing a general introduction to the programming language with plenty of examples that will enable you to quickly get started writing programs with Swift. 

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Whether you’re a developer or database administrator,this is a useful source of answers. It has concise summaries of  fundamental language elements, such as block structure, datatypes, and declarations; statements for program control, cursor management, and exception handling; records, procedures, functions, triggers, and packages and execution of PL/SQL functions in SQL. From a team of authors that includes Steven Feuerstein and Bill Prybil, whose classic book  Oracle PL/SQL Programming, 6th Edition was given a 5-star rating in Kay Ewbank's review. 

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Intended to be an introduction to Visual C++ for technical people including practicing engineers, engineering students, and others interested in Windows programming and its convenient graphics capabilities. While the book is aimed at a technical audience, its mathematical content is modest and should be readable by most people with an interest in C++ programming. Readers are introduced to Windows programming in a natural way; making use of the object-oriented environment, the Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC), and the document/view organization. 

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