This book shows how to start programming C# applications and has been updated and expanded with a new chapter on the Microsoft Blazor framework. Mark J Price begins with the fundamentals of C#, including object-oriented programming and new C# 9 features such as top-level programs, target-typed new object instantiation, and immutable types using the record keyword. 

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This book is intended as an accessible and thorough resource for anyone seeking to incorporate best security practices in software development. Author Tanya Janca uses stories of the characters Alice and Bob, real-life examples, technical explanations and diagrams to ensure maximum clarity of the many abstract and complicated subjects. The book covers all the basic subjects such as threat modeling and security testing, but also dives deep into more complex and advanced topics for securing modern software systems and architectures.

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This book is a guide to JavaScript E6 and beyond that concentrates on the most recent versions so developers can rapidly move from languages such as Java, C#, C, or C++.  Author Cay S. Horstmann's practical insights and sample code illustrate what's that’s new, and look at how to avoid common pitfalls and obsolete features. The book also looks at how to make the most of modern JavaScript’s robust toolchains and frameworks.

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This book looks at how to tackle challenges commonly faced in different aspects of data engineering. Paul Crickard starts with an introduction to the basics of data engineering, along with the technologies and frameworks required to build data pipelines to work with large datasets. He then looks at how to transform and clean data and perform analytics to get the most out of data.The book also covers how to work with big data of varying complexity and production databases, and build data pipelines.

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This is a book that tackles the big questions of life through the little questions of games. With short chapters on everything from memory games to the Prisoner's Dilemma, to Goedel's theorems, Geoff Engelstein explores the world from a new perspective. If you shuffle a deck of cards what are the odds that the sequence is unique? What is the connection between dice, platonic solids and Newton's theory of gravity? What is more random: a dice tower or a number generator? Can you actually employ a strategy for a game as basic as Rock-Paper-Scissors?

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This book shows how to simplify developing frontends by composing them from small, well-defined units. Michael Geers describes the micro frontends approach to designing your web apps as systems of features to benefit from faster feature development, easier upgrades, and the ability to pick and choose the technology you use in your stack. He starts with the core micro frontend design ideas and works through building an e-commerce application, working through practical issues like server-side and client-side composition, routing, and maintaining a consistent look and feel.

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This book covers over two dozen ways that various mutifactor authentication (MFA) solutions can be hacked, including the methods (and defenses) common to all MFA solutions. Roger A Grimes discusses the various types of MFA solutions, their strengthens and weaknesses, and how to pick the best, most defensible MFA solution for your (or your customers') needs.

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What analytical methods can we bring to bear on the astonishing scale of digital culture--the billions of photographs shared on social media  every day, the hundreds of millions of songs created by twenty million musicians on Soundcloud, the content of four billion Pinterest boards? In this book, Lev Manovich presents concepts and methods for computational analysis of cultural data.

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This 2nd edition covers everything you need to begin writing programs, going logically through the development cycle from initial design and testing to deployment and live iteration. Dan Gookin covers the do's and don'ts of good clean writing and how to produce the basic―and not-so-basic―building blocks of source code.

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This book begins by introducing you to the SQL portfolio in Azure and takes you through SQL Server IaaS scenarios. Authors Joseph D'Antoni et al then go on to explain the factors that you need to consider while choosing an OS for SQL Server in Azure VMs. The authors also explore different VM options and deployment choices for IaaS and understand platform availability, migration tools, and best practices in Azure.

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This book examines the impact intelligent technology will have on humanity. International human rights attorney Flynn Coleman argues that it is critical that we instill values, ethics, and morals into our robots, algorithms, and other forms of AI. Equally important, we need to develop and implement laws, policies, and oversight mechanisms to protect us from tech’s potential threats.

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This book covers the essential skills needed to quickly design, build, and deploy quality web APIs that are robust, reliable, and resilient. Author Mike Amundsen starts from initial design through prototyping and implementation to deployment of mission-critical APIs. The book includes more than a dozen open-source utilities and common programming patterns you can apply right away. It also covers the skills needed to create RESTful HTTP-based APIs

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