Book Watch Archive


Modern CMake for C++ (Packt)
Wednesday, 06 April 2022

Subtitled "Discover a better approach to building, testing, and packaging your software", this book treats the subject of building C++ solutions holistically. Rafał Świdziński provides an end-to-end guide to the automatization of complex tasks, including building, testing, and packaging. The book also focuses on the structure of source directories, building targets, and packages.

<ASIN:1801070059>

 
Kotlin Multiplatform by Tutorials (Razeware)
Monday, 04 April 2022

This book is aimed at mobile developers and managers who want to explore how they can use Kotlin Multiplatform to share code across Android, iOS and desktop apps. The Raywenderlich Tutorial Team shows how to reduce development and testing time by writing certain parts of your apps only once.

<ASIN:1950325628>

 
Beyond Coding: How Children Learn Human Values through Programming (MIT Press)
Friday, 01 April 2022

This book sets out the case for why children should be taught coding not as a technical skill but as a new literacy—a way to express themselves and engage with the world. Marina Umaschi Bers lays out a pedagogical roadmap for teaching code that encompasses the cultivation of character along with technical knowledge and skills. Presenting code as a universal language, she shows how children discover new ways of thinking, relating, and behaving through creative coding activities.

<ASIN:‎ 026254332X>

 
Front-End Back-End Development (Wiley)
Wednesday, 30 March 2022

This three-book set combines three titles by Jon Duckett - HTML & CSS: Design and Build Web Sites (2011); JavaScript & jQuery: Interactive Front-End Development (2014); and PHP & MySQL: Server-side Web Development (2022). Together these three books cover HTML and CSS, the additional front-end interactivity possible with JavaScript and jQuery, and show how to build back-ends with features like content management and membership using PHP and MySQL.

<ASIN:1119813093>

 
Kotlin Design Patterns and Best Practices, 2nd Ed (Packt)
Monday, 28 March 2022

This book shows how to implement traditional design patterns in Kotlin.  Alexey Soshin looks at the new patterns and paradigms that have emerged. This second edition is updated to cover the changes introduced from Kotlin 1.2 up to 1.5 and focuses more on the idiomatic usage of coroutines, which have become a stable language feature.

<ASIN:1801815720>

 
Breached!: Why Data Security Law Fails and How to Improve It (Oxford University Press)
Friday, 25 March 2022

Despite the passage of many data security laws, data breaches
are increasing at a record pace. In this book Daniel Solove and Woodrow Hartzog argue that the law fails because, ironically, it focuses too much on the breach itself. Drawing insights from many fascinating stories about data breaches, the authors show how major breaches could have been prevented or mitigated through a different approach to data security rules.

<ASIN:‎ 0190940557>

 
Python Testing with pytest, 2nd Ed (Pragmatic Bookshelf)
Wednesday, 23 March 2022

This book shows how to use pytest to write tests quickly and keep them readable and maintainable. In this fully revised edition, Brian Okken explores pytest's superpowers - simple asserts, fixtures, parametrization, markers, and plugins - while creating simple tests and test suites against a small database application. With simple step-by-step instructions and sample code, this book gets you up to speed quickly on this easy-to-learn yet powerful tool.

<ASIN:1680508601>

 
Functional Programming in C# 2nd Ed (Manning)
Monday, 21 March 2022

This book aims to show developers how to apply functional thinking to C# code. Enrico Buonanno's practical examples and spot-on treatment of FP concepts makes it the perfect guide for proficient C# programmers. This second edition is fully revised to cover new functional-inspired features in the most recent releases of C#, including tuples, async streams, pattern matching, and records.

<ASIN:1617299820>

 
Starflight (Steel Gear Press)
Friday, 18 March 2022

Subtitled "How the PC and DOS Exploded Computer Gaming 1987-1994", this book examines why the PC became the gaming juggernaut despite poor graphics and a design aimed at business users. Author Jamie Lendino tells the full story, from the early ill-fated (if influential) failures such as the PCjr and Tandy 1000, and diving deep into the industry-shattering innovations in processing, graphics, sound, software, and distribution that gave the PC (and the gamers who loved it) unprecedented power and reach.

<ASIN:1732355290>

 
Real-World Next.js (Packt)
Wednesday, 16 March 2022

Starting with the basics of Next.js, this book demonstrates how the framework can help developers reach their goals. Michele Riva shows the versatility of Next.js by building real-world applications with step-by-step explanations. The book looks at how to choose the right rendering methodology for websites, securing it, and deploying it to different providers, all while focusing on performance and developer happiness.

<ASIN:180107349X>

 
JavaScript Three-Tier Architectures in AWS with React, Node and MongoDB (Blue Sky Productions)
Monday, 14 March 2022

This book shows to utilize JavaScript to build a real world three-tier architecture that is hosted in AWS cloud platform services. Eric Bush looks at the fundamentals of a database tier, a services tier and how to build a UI tier web application, based on the three main frameworks of React, Node/Express and MongoDB. The book combines new content presented with plenty of depth and additional topics to form a single resource.

<ASIN:0997196696>

 
The Founders (Simon & Schuster)
Friday, 11 March 2022

Today, PayPal’s founders and earliest employees are considered the technology industry’s most powerful network. Since leaving PayPal, they have formed, funded, and advised the leading companies of our era, including Tesla, Facebook, YouTube, SpaceX, Yelp, Palantir, and LinkedIn, among many others. In this book, author Jimmy Soni explores PayPal’s turbulent early days. With hundreds of interviews and unprecedented access to thousands of pages of internal material, he shows how the seeds of so much of what shapes our world today—fast-scaling digital start-ups, cashless currency concepts, mobile money transfer—were planted two decades ago.

<ASIN:1501197266>

 
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